Ava DuVernay becomes first black woman to direct a $100 million movie | Chicago Tribune
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has checked off another milestone for black female directors. This week her film “A Wrinkle in Time”…
They Started School Afraid of the Water. Now They Are Saving Lives. | The New York Times
Down at the deep end of Grover Cleveland High School’s aging four-lane pool, two students lie face down in the…
Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight | The Guardian
In 1861, African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass took the stage at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist church and declared: “To the…
Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers? | The New York Times
In 1966, TWO BROTHERS, Alonzo and Dale Davis, set out from Los Angeles on a road trip across the United…
Police Killings Have Harmed Mental Health in Black Communities, Study Finds | The New York Times
A report published in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, on Thursday appears to give credence to those concerns.…
WATCH: ‘Quest’ Follows a Black Family’s Highs, Lows for 8 Years | Colorlines
Families like the Raineys, one of many working-class Black families living in North Philadelphia, are rarely the subject of nuanced…
‘It’s like a black and white thing’: How some elite charter schools exclude minorities | NBC News
GREENSBORO, Ga. — This clearly was no ordinary public school. Parents of prospective students converged on Lake Oconee Academy for…
Finding Foundation: How Bobby McFerrin And His Daughter Make Music A Family Affair | NPR
Bobby McFerrin is likely best known for his 1988 hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and has been entertaining audiences with…
Mormons Grapple with Race 40 Years After Ending Black Ban | Atlanta Black Star
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church on Friday will celebrate the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on…
The Racist Trope That Won’t Die | The New York Times
The comedian Roseanne Barr resurrected one of the oldest and most profoundly racist slanders in American history when she referred…
Celsious is the Most Stylish and Eco Friendly Laundrymat You’ve Ever Seen | Shoppe Black
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Shoppe Black, Shoppe Black Have you ever sipped organic coffee in a beautifully designed environment while your…
How This Husband-and-Wife Team Grew a B&B Empire | Entrepreneur
Monique Greenwood and her husband, Glenn Pogue, stayed in their first bed-and-breakfast in 1985. Six years later, while working as…
D.C. on ‘Cusp’ of Gold Standard for Health | The Washington Informer
A newly-released 2018 CityHealth report, which evaluates various policies that support and improve health and quality of life in 40…
‘This is huge’: black liberationist speaks out after her 40 years in prison | The Guardian
The first member of a group of black radicals known as the Move Nine who have been incarcerated, they insist…
These dreamy fabric sculptures show the intricate details of home
By Maria Anderson A visitor in the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit “Do Ho Suh: Almost Home” (Photo by Libby…
Low-income black fathers want to be good dads. The system won’t let them | The Guardian
Four years ago the state of Illinois suspended the driver’s license of James (not his real name) for failing to…
How Beyoncé and Jay-Z put a visionary African film back in the spotlight | The Guardian
The image is arresting: a man sits astride a motorcycle, the handlebars adorned with the giant skull of a zebu,…
Nigeria is the coolest World Cup team ever | Quartz
As the national soccer team prepares for its sixth cup appearance—the most by an African country—it is already turning heads…
A Chennai girl’s rise from Madras University to General Motors’s first female CFO | Quartz
On June 13, General Motors (GM), the maker of Buick, Cadillac, and Chevrolet cars, said that 39-year-old Dhivya Suryadevara will…
Jada Pinkett Smith reveals she contemplated suicide | Page Six
At The actress, 46, has opened up about her hair loss, her sex life and her family life, and now…
Homer A. Neal, Leader in Physics Who Explored Matter, Dies at 75 | The New York Times
Dr. Neal had a stroke in February from which he never recovered, his wife, Donna Jean Neal, said. He died…
The American Medical Association Just Elected Its First African American Woman President | Because of Them We Can
On Tuesday night, the AMA House of Delegates elected Atlanta psychiatrist Patrice A. Harris as its next president, which will…
The Most Successful Ethnic Group in the U.S. May Surprise You | OZY
At an Onyejekwe family get-together, you can’t throw a stone without hitting someone with a master’s degree. Doctors, lawyers, engineers,…
Dorothy Cotton, Civil Rights Pioneer and MLK Colleague, Dies | Afro
Cotton died June 10 at the Kendal at Ithaca retirement community in New York, said Jared Harrison, a close friend…
Three HBCU graduates bring craft beer bar to Harlem | The Undefeated
Three graduates of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are bringing a stylish take to a trendy craft beer bar…
‘They put us in a little box’: how racial tensions shape modern soul music | The Guardian
Leon Bridges remembers the exact moment he realized something had gone wrong. It was June of 2016, and Bridges was…
America’s segregated shores: beaches’ long history as a racial battleground | The Guardian
Summer has arrived, which, for many Americans, means day camps for children, afternoons lounging by a pool, and weekend trips…
Black Restaurant Week to showcase culinary diversity | The Philadelphia Tribune
The concept, which originated in Houston, celebrates the flavor of African, African-American and Caribbean cuisines. “I wanted to do something…
Artist Richard Wilkes on “Evotrope”
Inspired by Steampunk design, Richard Wilks talks about his larger than life 3-point mobile contraption. Through the merging of transportation…
Lorna Simpson Maps the Complex Galaxies of Black Women’s Hair | The Atlantic
Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves,” poet and professor Elizabeth Alexander writes in her introduction to Lorna…
‘A new room in the Great Pyramid’: lost 1963 John Coltrane album discovered | The Guardian
Anyone A lost album of originals by John Coltrane, the American saxophonist who took jazz to new heights of freedom…
Read James Blake’s Response to Punishment of NYPD Cop Who Assaulted Him | Colorlines
In September 2015, White, plainclothes New York Police Department (NYD) officer James Frascatore slammed former tennis player James Blake, who…
An Orchestra of Hope for Baltimore’s Future | AFRO
Anyone with any doubts about the value of “OrchKids,” the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s instrumental music program for inner city students,…
‘Black Panther’ Princess Letitia Wright Is Ready To Rule If Required | Deadline
Black Panther star Letitia Wright suggested at the MCM Comic-con show in London that her character, Shuri, may take over…
Why I’ll Be Choosing My Next Therapist by Race | Glamour
Black people don’t do therapy; we go to church” is a statement I’d heard countless times in my community. We…
Women and Men of Color Pay an ‘Emotional Tax’ at Work That’s Detrimental to Their Overall Health and Ability to Thrive: Report | The Root
There is no question that navigating the world as a woman of color is a unique experience. The combination of…
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: farewell to the ‘grandfather of rap’ | The Guardian
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin – sometimes known as “the grandfather of rap” – who has died aged 73 of cancer, was…
Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star
It’s been a long time coming, but the Alabama State Board of Education finally expunged the records of nine Alabama…
How Philadelphia closed homeless ‘heroin camps’ amid US opioid crisis | The Guardian
First came the warnings, then the deluge. The city of Philadelphia moved to clear out two notorious underpass encampments of…
Online Beauty Supply Shop For Black And Hispanic Women Is Safe, Lucrative Haven | Huffington Post
Black buying power shouldn’t be overlooked or ignored, especially by beauty brands and business owners. According to a recent Nielsen…
The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement | The Atlantic
There’s an enduring myth that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was “the first step” in the fight…
‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking | The New York Times
I don’t want you to be sassy,” the director John Doyle told Soara-Joye Ross during a recent rehearsal for the…
By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history
By Maria Anderson “Erased Lynching Series: der Wild West Show,” (Set 1) by Ken Gonzalez-Day, 2006. (Courtesy of the artist…
Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 | NPR
On May 31, 1921, six-year-old Olivia Hooker was home with her family in Tulsa, Okla., when a group of white…
This Maker Is Helping to Build a More Inclusive Movement | Next City
Nisha Blackwell is stitching up her neighborhood and making it stronger. Blackwell was born and raised in Homewood, a majority…
Accidental Cuban Refugee Learns to Overcome Adversity | Voice of America (VOA)
When the electricity went out in the Havana neighborhood where she lived, Jessi Calzado-Esponda remembers her family often brought out…
‘It Does Something to Your Soul When Everyone Losing Their Homes Looks Like You’ | Politico
DURHAM, N.C. —On a chilly Wednesday morning in December, Jesse McCoy II headed upstairs to a third-floor courtroom full of…
Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness’ | The Guardian
One day in 1988, at the age of five, I returned home from school upset. My mum tried to work…
Flint Water Crisis Likely Increased Fetal Deaths, Study Shows | Huffington Post
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, may have reduced fertility rates and increased miscarriages and fetal deaths, according to new…
How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners | Atlas Obscura
NN THE MID 19TH CENTURY, slaves throughout the American South pulled at ropes and chains nonstop during summer mealtimes, to…
Between Two Worlds | Toronto Life
My mother, Jean Walker, was the 13th of 15 children, born in 1949 to a church-going black family on a…
The First Urban Case of Ebola in the Congo Is a ‘Game Changer’ | The Atlantic
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has thus far been confined to remote rural areas, but…
An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park | Timeline
When Reverend Christopher Rush laid the cornerstone of the First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1853, he placed in…
Former Black Panther Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald will remain behind bars | San Francisco Bay View
Chip was arrested in 1969 and charged with murdering a security guard and attempting to murder a highway patrolman who…
When Race Is the Punchline on Prime Time | Slate
I’ll admit it, I do enjoy race jokes—but only those of the subversive variety. Racially charged quips on Roseanne and…
The 16 Black Panthers Still Behind Bars | Colorlines
One of the highlights of 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party (BPP), which…
NC food icon ‘Mama Dip’ passes away | WRAL
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — One of North Carolina’s most beloved chefs and restaurant owners, Mildred Cotton Council aka “Mama Dip,”…
In a superhero cape, he feeds the city’s hungry and homeless. And he’s only 4 | CNN
Birmingham (CNN) Austin Perine’s superhero cape glides and flutters as he hands chicken sandwiches to homeless men outside a shelter…
See hip-hop evolve through photos at the African American History and Culture Museum
By Brendan L. Smith Public Enemy in 1987 by Jack Mitchell. (Image courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History…
When the “victim” you fought for turns out to be the victimizer: Sherita Dixon-Cole and the painful consequences of a false report of sexual assault and police misconduct | Medium
On this past Sunday evening, after being contacted by family, friends, and attorneys for a Texas woman named Sherita Dixon-Cole,…