Baxter Leach, key member of Memphis’s striking sanitation workers, dies at 79 | The Washington Post
Baxter Leach, a prominent member of the Memphis sanitation workers union whose historic strike drew the Rev. Martin Luther King…
Meet the woman behind new distillery honouring black slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey | Face2face Africa
The contributions of black people to America’s history across various fields have, over the years, been largely forgotten and this…
The Former Slave Who Sued for Reparations, and Won | The Washington Times
The debate over reparations has re-entered American politics. At congressional hearings, primary debates and across social media many people are…
Black Women Have Never Had The Privilege Of Rage | HuffPost
The past several weeks have sparked an unprecedented conversation about women’s collective fury in this #MeToo, #WhyIDidntReport and post-Kavanaugh hearings…
A man bought 100 generators to help the Bahamas. They’re being delivered by boat | CNN
A man walked into a Costco in Florida and left with 100 generators, all of which are heading to The…
Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan: the story behind the photograph that shamed America | The Telegraph
On her first morning of school, September 4 1957, Elizabeth Eckford’s primary concern was looking nice. Her mother had done…
4 Afro-Dominican Models Are the Cover Stars of Vogue Latin America’s September Issue | Remezcla
The covers of magazines, particularly within our communities, fail to make room for Latin American (or Latina) women of African…
How To Spend 3 Days In Black-Owned New Orleans | Travel Noire
You’re almost there! You’ve taken the first step—deciding to take a trip to New Orleans and experience its colorful cultural…
Dr. Samuel Kountz, 51, Dies; Leader In Transplant Surgery | The New York Times (Dec., 1981)
About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online…
The Book Of Prince | The New Yorker
On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about a book he wanted…
Breaking Barriers in Ballet: Misty Copeland Set to Receive Trailblazer Award | Black Press USA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Determined to shatter the glass ceiling of the ballet world, on Sep. 11, the Congressional Black Caucus…
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for American democracy | The Washington Post
This is no time to be on the sidelines. Stacey Abrams: Stand up and be counted. “I do not want…
Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate” | Slate
Spend any amount of time talking about slavery on the internet, and you’ll eventually encounter the claim that there were…
Meet Blanche Dunn, the Jamaican socialite who ruled New York in the 1920s | Face2face Africa
The African American arts and culture took a huge leap during the Harlem Renaissance when African American creatives of all…
A New Wave of Black Women Playwrights Is Reinventing the Genre | Zora
The art of theater dates back millennia and there is no denying who its original titans were. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides…
Overlooked | The New York Times
Far from seeing reform after Robert Mugabe was toppled, the country has fallen into crisis as millions are ‘reduced to…
‘Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master’ | GOOD.IS
In 1825, at the approximate age of 8, Jordan Anderson (sometimes spelled “Jordon”) was sold into slavery and would live…
Alabama man who served 36 years of a life sentence for stealing $50 to be freed | The Guardian
A man from Alabama who was sentenced to life without parole after stealing $50.75 from a bakery in his 20s…
White women were colonisers too. To move forward, we have to stop letting them off the hook | The Guardian
On 21 September 2018, at the peak of the #MeToo movement that had supposedly shattered the silence around the sexual…
Dred Scott Decision: The Case and Its Impact | ThoughtCo.
Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, declared that black people, whether free…
At Home With Forbes + Masters | Essence
Tavia Forbes and Monet Masters had no interest in working together when they met in 2012. “I was 25 and…
When South Africans Declared ‘Liberation’ at Two Whites-Only Beaches | Los Angeles Sentinel
CSouth Africa witnessed the beginning of the end of Whites-only beaches thirty years ago this week after an action launched…
Director Roger Ross Williams On Emmy-Nominated VR Film ‘Traveling While Black’: “It’s A Big Moment” | Deadline
The medium of virtual reality has been marshaled to explore everything from nature to outer space, roller coaster thrills, the…
How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery |Vox
Four hundred years ago, a group of about 20 Africans were captured in the African interior, probably near modern-day Angola,…
Viola Davis To Play Michelle Obama In Showtime Series ‘First Ladies’ |HuffPost
A/dropcap] deal is in place for Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis to play Michelle Obama, according to reports. The “How To…
Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer | NPR
Classical singer Marian Anderson was one of the all-time greats — both as an artist, and as a cultural figure…
Airbnb Partners With NAACP To Promote Travel To Ghana For ‘The Year of Return’ | Essence
All year long, people of African descent have been making the voyage to Ghana to unite on the continent with…
New Plan Seeks to Replace Newark’s Lead Pipes In Less Than 3 Years | Colorlines
As the water crisis in the city of Newark gains national attention, officials have set a goal of less than…
What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching? | Buzzfeed
Syreeta McFadden, Buzzfeed Lawrence Beitler was sitting on the front porch of his home in Marion, Indiana, when someone asked…
Celebrating the Second Annual Latin American Foto Festival in the Bronx | Feature Shoot
With the second edition of the Bronx Documentary Center’s Latin American Foto Festival, curators Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera provide…
Why more and more black Americans are moving to Ghana | The Week
When Lakeshia Ford decided she was going to pack up her life and her budding career and move from New…
Never Forget: 69 Black Boys Were Padlocked Into A Dormitory Where A Mysterious Fired Started – 21 Burned To Death | Black Main Street
For the last 5 decades, every year has been 1959 for Frank Lawrence. For the majority of his life, Lawrence…
Museums in France Should Return African Treasures, Report Says | The New York Times
PARIS — The sprawling Quai Branly Museum in Paris is stuffed with treasure. It has some 70,000 objects from sub-Saharan…
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Raising Teacher Minimum Pay To $40,000 | HuffPost
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed legislation Thursday to raise the minimum salary for teachers in the state to $40,000.…
J. Edgar Hoover saw Dick Gregory as a threat. So he schemed to have the Mafia ‘neutralize’ the comic. | Washington Post
In the middle of the hothouse atmosphere of the 1968 U.S. presidential election — racial strife splitting cities, antiwar protests…
Four Black Men Were Freed From Death Row. Republicans Put Them Back. | The New York Times
One prosecutor called the defendant in a murder case a “big black bull” in front of an all-white jury. Another…
How an accidental encounter brought slavery to the United States | USA Today
Four hundred years ago this summer, a few weeks and 35 miles apart, two epochal events occurred. One was the…
Thirty years later, Yusuf Hawkins’ murder still shocks in a changed Brooklyn | The City
Until this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the…
25 Black Owned Yoga Studios #NAMASTE | Shoppe Black
Regular yoga practice has been shown to have tremendous physical, mental and spiritual health benefits. We’ve compiled a list of…
The Surprising Path That Some Kids Take to the Ivy League | The New York Times
You’ve read a lot over the past year about kids who end up in the Ivy League because of their…
Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough | The Guardian
It is a moment that disturbs Ibram X Kendi to this day. It was the 90s, and Kendi – then…
Bolivia’s Powerful Cholitas Luchadora Wrestlers Photographed by Todd Antony | Colossal
Photographer Todd Anthony (previously) documents Bolivia’s best-dressed wrestlers in a new series, Flying Cholitas. The women, who are indigenous Aymara,…
A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans | The Guardian
Charlie McClain was surprised to learn that he was related to one of the Elaine Twelve. It came out when…
Beloved St. Louis stage veteran Linda Kennedy passes at 68 | The St. Louis American
Linda Alton Randall Kennedy, a staple of the St. Louis theater scene for more than four decades, passed away this…
Taylor Dumpson, 1st Black Female Student Body President at American University, Awarded over $700K in Suit Against Neo-Nazi Website Founder | Good Black News
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that white supremacists who used social media to threaten…
How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres | Truthout
Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that…
5 things people still get wrong about slavery | Vox
In August 1619, the first ship with “20 and odd” enslaved Africans arrived on the shores of Virginia. Four hundred…
A Sensitive Portrait of Working-Class African Americans, By an Italian Who Fears and Loves the South | IndieWire
Roberto Minervini’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?” is a documentary portrait of working-class African-Americans in New…
The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia | USA Today
HAMPTON, Va. – As Walter Jones walks his family’s ancient cemetery, shovel in hand, he wonders about those who rest…
Dad and daughter need a little help in this super relatable clip from Matthew Cherry’s animated short “Hair Love” | AV Club
Audiences who plan on checking out The Angry Birds Movie 2 in theaters this weekend will also get to watch…
They’re Running For Congress — And Trump’s Attacks On The Squad Won’t Stop Them | HuffPost
For women of color running for Congress in 2020, President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the “Squad” of freshman congresswomen…
How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment | The Daily Beast
Mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have highlighted once again the importance of the Supreme Court’s 2008…
The Great Land Robbery | The Atlantic
I. Wiped Out “you ever chop before?” Willena Scott-White was testing me. I sat with her in the cab of…
Color and Incarceration | Harvard Magazine
In 2005, during her first year of graduate school, Elizabeth Hinton traveled from New York to California to visit her…
Whatever happened to author Dorothy West? | The Guardian
Little sister” to Zora Neale Hurston. “The Kid” and would-be wife of Langston Hughes (he didn’t say yes). Rediscovered at…
The 19th Amendment Only Really Helped White Women | Teen Vogue
In the history of fairness and equality in the United States, there’s no denying that women of color have often…
We asked four black businesswomen how they got their start. Here’s what they said. | USA Today
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, Milwaukee bustled with African American-owned businesses. But a combination of changing demographics and concentrated…
Report: Warriors’ Stephen Curry Starting Golf Team at Howard University | Bleacher Report
Stephen Curry has already taken his love of golf to television. Now he’s doing the same at Howard University. The…
Police look into threatening letter sent to North Carolina mayor | The Hill
Police in Charlotte, N.C., are investigating after a threatening letter was sent to numerous lawmakers of color in the city,…
Will we read Toni Morrison in troubled times? Yes, we will read Toni Morrison on troubled times | Scroll.in
The death of an author brings her into sudden proximity. As I sit in front of my computer with a…