Groundbreaking Night for Women and Diversity, While a Trump Critic Falls | The New York Times
HARTLAND, Wis. — Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota was soundly defeated Tuesday in his bid to reclaim the Republican…
On the House | Buying home for first time still exciting at age 75 | The Columbus Dispatch
On Tuesday, Joyce Mayne bought her first house, a birthday present to herself. Mayne’s birthday is today. She is 75.…
Aretha Franklin’s Revolution | The Atlantic
If the Great Migration could be condensed into a single personal narrative, it might be Aretha Franklin’s. Born in 1942…
Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, is dead at 76 | Vox
Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit, the AP reports. While the…
How a historian turned artist discovered it’s never too late to start over | The Lily
After a distinguished career as a historian and Princeton professor, Nell Painter had earned the right to a restful retirement.…
How a black, firefighting union president plans to take on Scott Walker | Vox
When voters in Wisconsin go to the polls for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 14, Mahlon Mitchell, a…
Photos trace the broad history of Japanese photography from the 1880s to the 21st century
By Grace Aldridge Foster “Simmon: A Private Landscape (#1),” by Hosoe Eikoh, Japan, 1971. Gelatin silver print. Renowned filmmakers Gloria…
The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System | Smithsonian.com
The sharecroppers who gathered at a small church in Elaine, Arkansas, in the late hours of September 30, 1919, knew…
Philadelphia Printworks: Activism Never Looked so Good | Shoppe Black
Philadelphia Printworks is a conscious clothing company that creates T-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel with designs inspired by social issues…
The Common App Will Stop Asking About Students’ Criminal Histories | The Atlantic
The nonprofit organization behind the Common Application, a single form that students can fill out to apply to any college…
From Birth of a Nation to BlacKkKlansman: Hollywood’s complex relationship with the KKK | The Guardian
The movies have never quite been sure how seriously to take the Ku Klux Klan. Is it a terrorist organisation,…
Armenian Wedding Ceremony | Smithsonian Insider
At the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Armenian participants Mariam Hovhannisyan and Stepan Toroyan—who were recently married—recreated a traditional ceremony on…
It’s a Celebration As Voters Oust Prosecutor Who Freed Michael Brown’s Killer | Colorlines
On November 24, 2014, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced that there would be no criminal charges brought…
Shedding new light on Diane Arbus, whose work established photography as fine art
By Grace Aldridge Foster John Gossage, Diane Arbus in Washington Square Park, NYC, 1967, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24…
Review: ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ Is a Striking Dream Vision of Race | The New York Times
Terence Nance, an artist and the show’s creator, is filming himself on his smartphone, cycling through New York City. A…
‘My heart, it’s never been fuller’: All black team wins D.C. Little League title | The Washington Post
On Tuesday night, while the Washington Nationals were losing yet another game in an increasingly dreary summer, a much more…
With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color | The New York Times
Growing up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Akili Tommasino used to cut class to visit artworks like the ancient…
35 Black Owned Nail Salons | Shoppe Black
I was scrolling through our ShoppeBlack IG when saw a video pop up of a Black woman being attacked at…
Why Self-Made Boss Pat McGrath Is an Invaluable Asset to the Beauty World | Allure
There’s nothing wrong with putting Kylie Jenner — or any reality TV star guaranteed to generate buzz — on the…
How to Fight Police Violence, Pollution, and Poverty, at the Same Time | City Lab
This article is published in collaboration with Topic and its new documentary series Braddock, PA, about residents fighting to bring…
US healthcare prices set to skyrocket after ‘Obamacare’ scrapped | Al Jazeera
Many people in the US will soon have to pay a lot more for health insurance after President Donald Trump‘s…
‘They wanted to jail us all’ – Black Panthers photographer Neil Kenlock looks back | The Guardian
Sometimes I look at my work and can’t believe I did it,” says photographer Neil Kenlock. “I was just doing…
With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present | The Atlantic
On August 11, about a year before the release of Spike Lee’s new film BlacKkKlansman, various white-nationalist groups gathered in…
There’s Nothing Wrong With Black English | The Atlantic
Not The Nation recently published a poem in which a homeless narrator speaks a complex, nuanced variety of English with…
‘I felt I was not a good mom’: Serena Williams details post-partum struggles | The Guardian
Williams suffered the heaviest defeat of her career last week when she lost 6-1, 6-0 in just 52 minutes to…
“Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France | The New Yorker
Not long after France beat Croatia in the final match of the 2018 World Cup, on Sunday, the French sociologist…
A black fire chief faces hatred online before his first day on the job | The Washington Post
Even before he arrives in Northern Virginia, the new fire chief for one of the country’s wealthiest suburbs heard the…
The pioneering prints of Dox Thrash | CBS New
From time to time we like to take a look at the works of artists who are far too often…
Watch the Emotional First Trailer for Barry Jenkins’s New Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ | Vice
Academy Award–winning director Barry Jenkins has been pretty busy since stunning audiences with Moonlight. He’s reportedly working with Black Panther’s…
Kwaku Anansi: The only folklore character to travel out of Africa and become a global symbol of resistance | Face2Face Africa
Amongst all the African folktale characters that exist, Kwaku Anansi is the most popular and important. The West African folktale…
How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History | Smithsonian Magazine
Two hundred and five years ago, on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up…
Possible key to black boys’ academic success: Hire black men as elementary school teachers | Chicago Tribune
Neat the end of his freshman year at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ja’Waun Williams heard that a dean…
How to Win Elections in a System ‘Not Set Up for Us’ | The Atlantic
ATLANTA— It was midway through a sticky Georgia Saturday, and Jessica Byrd was dispelling myths about the way black women…
Octavia Spencer-Led Series on Madam C.J. Walker Coming to Netflix | Colorlines
Netflix will bring the story of one of history’s most trailblazing Black entrepreneurs to life, courtesy of an upcoming limited…
The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation | The New York Times
THE NEW NEGRO The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C. Stewart932 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. Alain LeRoy Locke’s…
Gun Control Activist Lucy McBath Wins Democratic Nomination for Congress | Mother Jones
By nearly every measure, Lucy McBath wasn’t supposed to get this far in the Democratic race for Congress in Georgia’s…
Opinion: How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | The New York Times
The suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century.…
The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. | The New Yorker
After leaving the agency, the agent, Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook) moves to Chicago, and puts his training in guerrilla warfare…
#MuteRKelly Co-Founder Discusses Campaign’s Success, Backlash | Colorlines
Kenyette Tisha Barnes will not listen to R. Kelly’s “I Admit,” the 19-minute musical response to critics of his alleged…
(2017) White lawmaker warns black attorney she may ‘go missing’ if Confederate statues are threatened | The Washington Post
LaDawn Jones is a black Democrat from Atlanta. For four years, her seatmate in the Georgia House of Representatives was…
Ida B. Wells gets her street — City Council approves renaming Congress in her honor | Chicago Tribune
An African-American journalist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett worked to expose lynching, pushed for women’s right to vote and started numerous organizations…
Black female pilot makes history in Alabama National Guard | Stars & Stripes
FORT RUCKER, Ala. — An Alabama soldier has made history as the first black female pilot in the state National…
Art installation honors African-American military role during Civil War | The DC Line
Celebrations are underway to mark the 20th anniversary of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. The four-day commemoration…
Black farmers say they were deliberately sold defective soybean seeds because of their race | The Washington Post
A group of black soybean farmers from the South says a company intentionally sold them defective seeds in an elaborate…
ACONAV shines spotlight on Native American fashion | AZ Big Media
Acoma Pueblo designer, Loren Aragon is the mastermind behind ACONAV. He is channeling inspiration from Native American culture and creating…
The Welfare Boogeyman | The New York Times
When it comes to social policy, President Trump embraces conservative politics as usual, continuing a nearly four-decades-long effort to make…
The Democratic Party Apologizes to Black Voters | The Atlantic
ATLANTA —Swanky fund-raisers don’t often begin with an apology to the well-heeled donors who shelled out thousands of dollars to…
Can the ‘immortal cells’ of Henrietta Lacks sue for their own rights? | The Washington Post
The question we are dealing with is ‘Can the cells sue for mistreatment, misappropriation, theft and for the profits earned…
Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving the Atlantic | The Washington Post
Erik Wemple, The Washington PostOn Wednesday, November 16, in the Ira Aldridge Theater at Howard University, Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer, journalist,…
Michelle Obama wades into the midterms | Politico
Michelle Obama is jumping into the 2018 campaigns with a voter registration initiative that will be strictly nonpartisan — exciting…
The Districts Are Mostly White. The Candidates Are Not. | The New York Times
NORTH AURORA, Ill. — Most of the room’s occupants looked nothing like Lauren Underwood, but no one seemed to care.…
Rightwing rally cancelled as Maxine Waters supporters stand guard | The Guardian
A rightwing group that had vowed to stage weeks of protests against California’s best-known African American member of Congress, Maxine…
Stacy Brown-Philpot of TaskRabbit on Being a Black Woman in Silicon Valley | The New York Times
Stacy Brown-Philpot didn’t grow up aspiring to be the chief executive of a technology company. Instead, she wanted to be…
Kamala Harris Examines ‘The Truths We Hold’ in New Book | Colorlines
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will take her ideological convictions from the halls of the Capitol to the page in her…
Growing up with Nelson Mandela | Deutsche Welle
At the age of 11, Ndaba Mandela met his grandfather for only the second time. A big black BMW whisked…
Nearly 2,000 Puerto Rican Hurricane Survivors Face Eviction | Colorlines
Today (July 2), a federal judge will decide if approximately 1,800 Puerto Ricans forced to evacuate their homes following Hurricane…
Why Frederick Douglass’s struggle for justice is relevant in the Trump era | The Guardian
A month after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday in 1865, the 17th president of the United States began…
Obama makes first visit to Kenya since leaving office in support of sister’s foundation | The Independent
Former President Barack Obama has visited Kenya, his father’s native country, for the first time since leaving office. Mr Obama…
Common struggle: Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia | The Guardian
The death of black teenager Travyon Martin – shot six years ago by a neighbourhood watch volunteer who thought he…
Black Women Are Suffering In Silence From Arab Abuse | Atlanta Black Star
There is a problem in the Arab world with the abuse of Black women. Arab racism against people of African…