Rapper Common, developers planning massive movie studio campus as part of South Works redevelopment | Chicago Tribune
Chicago rapper Common and a group of real estate developers are drawing up plans to convert the massive former U.S.…
Memphis black boys, ‘the foremost vulnerable … population in our system,’ are the focus of Ray’s new initiative | Chalkbeat
The Superintendent Joris Ray launched a new initiative Monday that he hopes will help black boys improve their test scores,…
‘Soul of Philanthropy’: learning to be a philanthropist in different ways | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
In 2012, six couples in Columbus, Indiana began the African American Fund of Bartholomew County (AAFBC). As part of Heritage…
Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened. | The New York Times
The bone-rattling trip to the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere used to require a steady hand, a powerful jet and…
Jim Crow’s Last Stand | The Atlantic
Emily Buder, The Atlantic The legacy of Jim Crow continues to loom large in the United States. But nowhere is…
Secrets of 1946 Mass Lynching Could Be Revealed After Court Ruling | The New York Times
On July 25, 1946, two black couples were riding in a car in Walton County, Ga., when they were mobbed…
Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive | Smithsonian
A consortium of foundations – the Ford Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur…
Data of prejudice: the uses and abuses of the science of race | New Statesman
I am inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,” said the Nobel laureate James Watson in an interview in the…
[Video] Collector Dr. Joy Simmons Takes Us Inside Her Art-Filled L.A. Home | The Cut
Dr. Joy Simmons set out in 1992 to design an art-filled home in L.A. in which to raise her two…
About Blackness, Africanness and When It’s Enough | Awesomely Luvvie
What is Blackness? Is it based on where you’re from? Is it based on your skin tone? Is it based…
Donny Hathaway’s Daughter Lalah Is Finally Ready to Honor Him in Concert | The New York Times
I used to listen to Donny Hathaway records, and I would cry,” Lalah Hathaway said in a recent interview, and…
I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. | The New York Times Magazine
In the early days of the run-up to the 2016 election, I was just beginning to prepare a class on…
Girl, 12, Describes Killing Of a Black Panther Here | The New York Times
About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online…
‘Harriet’ Trailer: Cynthia Erivo Fights For Freedom as Harriet Tubman in Oscar Hopeful | IndieWire
It wouldn’t be awards season without an Oscar hopeful from Focus Features, and this year the specialty arm of Universal…
Israel Begins Tearing Down Palestinian Housing on Edge of East Jerusalem | The New York Times
JERUSALEM — Israeli bulldozers arrived before dawn on Monday and began clawing at the first of 10 Palestinian apartment blocks…
Black People’s Land Was Stolen | The New York Times
A House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday held the first hearing in over a decade on the issue of reparations for…
Sister Cities: The Connection between Charleston and Freetown, Sierra Leone | South Carolina Public Radio
Dressed in a brightly colored, patterned dress and wearing stylishly large, black rimmed glasses, 51 year-old Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr flashes the…
‘I Beat That N***r Like He Owed Me Money’: New Jersey Cop Faces Up to 40 Years for Federal Charges Including Using Excessive Force | Atlanta Black Star
An FBI investigation into several police officers in Paterson, New Jersey, has led to a seventh one being charged. On…
Serena Williams, Mark Cuban Invest in Black-Owned Maternal Healthcare Startup | Black Enterprise
Mahmee, a maternal healthcare startup, recently closed a $3 million round led by Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital. Other investors…
What we get wrong about the 1960s ‘riots’ | The Washington Post
Fifty years ago, shortly after sundown on July 21, 1969, a black woman named Lillie Belle Allen was murdered in…
Louisiana Police Officer on Facebook Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘Needs a Round’ | The New York Times
A Facebook post by a Louisiana police officer suggesting that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “needs a round” drew criticism on Sunday…
Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting | The Conversation
In June, the United States House of Representatives held a debate about reparations to African-Americans. One of the questions in…
What Big Little Lies Doesn’t Get About Bonnie | The Atlantic
This article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 6 of Big Little Lies. You are out here surrounded by people…
Thomas L. Jennings, First African American to Receive a Patent | Post News Group
Patents are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent was issued in…
Former Apollo trainee’s career took off in a different direction | The Washington Post
Ed Dwight never reached the moon as an astronaut, but his use of negative space in sculptures made him an…
Swan Song | The American Scholar
In 1901, a group of about 200 black singers in Washington, D.C., formed the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society, in honor…
The Forgotten All-Star Game That Helped Integrate Baseball | Deadspin
When Cleveland celebrated its sixth time hosting MLB’s All-Star Game last week, it might have seemed an odd event to…
For The ‘Nickel Boys,’ Life Isn’t Worth 5 Cents | NPR
Michael Schaub, NPR The long string of horrors that took place at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys wasn’t…
The Racist History of Tipping | Politico
Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, Politico An illustration of the interior of a Pullman dining car. | Library of…
Former Ebony publishing company is auctioning off its historic photo archive, containing more than 4 million photos, to pay its creditors | CNN
CNN – Ebony and Jet magazines were once pinnacles of black American culture. Their photographs were windows into intimate moments…
The D.C. Race War of 1919 | The Washington Post Magazine
Ben and Carrie Johnson peered out the second-story window of their brick rowhouse at 220 G St. NW. On the…
What Canada and South Africa can teach the U.S. about slavery reparations | The Conversation
America’s failure to understand, acknowledge and resolve the continuing catastrophe of slavery is holding back the entire nation. Without broad…
Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students | NPR
Sculptor Augusta Savage once said: “I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been…
Baton Rouge activist was killed by a tenant behind on his rent, police say | The Washington Post
A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the Baton Rouge activist whose body…
Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save It | Smithsonian.com
Nina Simone was born in a small, clapboard house in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933. It was there that Simone…
Kem and Maze deliver fond and fitting farewell concert for Tom Joyner | The St. Louis American
Urban radio pioneer and syndicated morning show personality Tom Joyner sent shockwaves across the airwaves two years ago when he…
Beloved Baton Rouge Activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph Suffocated To Death And Was Found In A Car’s Trunk | Buzzfeed News
Sadie Roberts-Joseph, a beloved community activist whose body was found in a car trunk last week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,…
Why reparations to African-Americans are necessary – and how to start now | The Conversation
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Garden & GunFive generations on Smith’s Plantation Beaufort at South Carolina in 1862. Timothy H. O’Sullivan/Library of…
The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’ | PBS
We’ve all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of…
Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It. | ProPublica
TheN THE SPRING OF 2011, the brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels were the talk of Carteret County, on the…
27 More Graves May Have Been Found at a Notorious Florida Boys School | The New York Times
More than two dozen additional unmarked graves may have been discovered on the grounds of a defunct boys reform school…
Could black philanthropy help solve the black student debt crisis? | The Conversation
When billionaire Robert E. Smith decided to pay off the student loans of the graduating class of 2019 at Morehouse…
Two African American High School Boys Make History at Harvard Debate | Black Enterprise
Two African American Atlanta-area high school students led their debate team to its second consecutive win at Harvard University’s annual…
‘A godsend’: Sorority donates 17,000 meals for disaster relief after ending New Orleans convention early | The Washington Post
As Tropical Storm Barry encroached on the New Orleans area Friday, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority made a tough decision…
While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African-Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead | Smithsonian Magazine
In anticipation of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, an estimated 8,000 New Yorkers gathered in Central Park,…
UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame | UC Santa Cruz
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall…
African-American GIs and German Radicals: An Unexpected Alliance | JSTOR Daily
Fifty years ago, young people were leading movements all over the world to oppose war, imperialism, and racism. In Germany,…
Man aiming to be first black African in space dead at 30 | New York Post
JOHANNESBURG — Mandla Maseko, a South African man who had won the opportunity to become the first black African to…
With A Growing Membership Since Trump, Black Gun Group Considers Getting Political | NPR
The goal of the National African American Gun Association is to introduce black Americans to guns and also instruct them…
Is ‘Race Science’ Making A Comeback? | NPR
When Angela Saini was 10 years old, her family moved from what she called “a very multicultural area” in East…
In latest book, former St. Louis cop writes how problems with cops starts with the stories they tell | The St. Louis American
Terrell Carter’s latest book “Police on a Pedestal: Responsible Policing in a Culture of Worship” begins with the African proverb,…
Meet Esther Abisola Omole | Stanford Magazine
Esther Abisola Omole, ’21, discovered her passion for architecture as a child while roaming her grandfather’s neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria.…
The Women Who Brought Us the Moon | PBS
In 1965, Poppy Northcutt was the only female engineer at NASA’s Houston Mission Control. As she gazed at the men…
White Man Followed a Black Teen Into a Store and Cut His Throat Because His Rap Music Made Him Feel “Unsafe” | Slate
It was in the early hours of the morning on Thursday when police say 27-year-old Michael Adams say, had just…
Read The Powerful Letter Fredrick Douglass Wrote To Harriet Tubman In 1868 | Watch The Yard
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and…
Tutankhamen Head Sells for $6 Million, Despite Protests from Egypt | The New York Times
LONDON — “It was smuggled. It belongs to Egypt,” said Magda Sakr, one of a dozen protesters gathered outside Christie’s…
Ayanna Pressley To Kellyanne Conway: ‘Keep My Name Out Of Your Lying Mouth’ | HuffPost
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) ripped into Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday after the White House counselor mocked the tension between freshmen…
2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm | The New York Times
Shirley Chisholm stares out from the side of a dozen coffee mugs these days, her epochal glasses, brocade dresses and…
Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII | The Washington Post
The Census Bureau plans to ask people if they are U.S. citizens in the 2020 count of the nation’s population,…
When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate | The New York Times
ST. LOUIS — As a pastor, Clinton Stancil counsels his black congregants that abortion is akin to the taking of…