Nobel Peace Prize winner: Denis Mukwege from DR Congo | BBC News
The 63-year-old Congolese gynaecologist set up the Panzi hospital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu nearly…
Letter From The Democrat Plantation | Medium
I argue on the Internet with what I’ll lump together and call Republicans. Most of them are indeed registered Republicans…
SF Mayor Breed envisions adding 1,000 beds for the homeless by end of 2020 | San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is expected to set an ambitious goal Thursday of adding 1,000 beds for homeless people…
In the Cradle of Hip-Hop, a South Bronx Gallery Bridges a Gap | The New York Times
For the past 11 years, Free Richardson has run The Compound, his creative advertising business, from a compact space off…
Roxanne Roxanne | Kennedy-Center.org – KOLUMN
In the early 1980s, the most feared battle emcee in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the…
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hala Alyan Earn Dayton Literary Peace Prize | Colorlines
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Sameer Rao Colorlines The Jurors recognized a Palestinian-American poet’s debut novel about a Palestinian family’s generational displacement,…
Terrie Williams Closing PR Agency | The Washington Informer
Terrie M. Williams, one of the country’s premier public relations professionals whose firm has represented some of the biggest names…
Jazz album of the month: Wayne Shorter: Emanon review – vivid and sublimely thrilling | The Guardian
In his youth, saxophonist Wayne Shorter used to travel with his trumpeter brother, Alan, carrying instrument cases labelled Mr Weird…
Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage Is a Brilliant Business Strategy | The Atlantic
Amazon announced on Tuesday that, starting November 1, it will increase minimum pay for all full-time, part-time, temporary, and seasonal…
Black Films Come Out Of The Vault In TCM, Black Critics Monthlong Showcase | Forbes
The African American Film Critics Association has teamed up with Turner Classic Movies to shine a spotlight on classic black…
Digitally Altered Portraits Superimposed with Flowers, Antique Patterns, and Wildlife Illustrations by Tawny Chatmon | Colossal
Maryland-based artist Tawny Chatmon combines traditional portraiture with digital collage, layering elements of antique patterns, vintage botanicals, and wildlife illustrations…
Professor and television host Melissa Harris Perry reveals she was raped in 2016 | The Grio
In 2016, Harris Perry made headlines due to her particularly ugly departure from her hit show on MSNBC. Now, she’s…
The Creole queen of New Orleans | CNN
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail CNN, CNN Dooky Chase’s gave African Americans a taste of the fine dining they were barred from,…
In Connecticut, a Teacher of the Year sets her sights on Congress | Yahoo
MERIDEN, Conn. — Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year turned congressional candidate, struggled with the publicity around…
Black On The Ballot: 10 Women So Dope, Even Obama Had To Back Them | Blavity
We are only a few weeks away from the midterm elections. It’s important that you know who is on the…
What is Con Safos? | Smithsonian Insider
Josh T. Franco, national collector for Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, explains a copyright created by Mexican American artists to…
Record Kerry James Marshall ‘Study’ tops Sotheby’s $31 million Contemporary Curated auction in New York | ArtDaily.org
Charlotte Van Dercook, Head of Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated auctions in New York, remarked: “We are thrilled with the results from…
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A slave mother’s love in 56 carefully stitched words | KUOW
For about $300, a 9-year-old girl named Ashley was sold as a slave. Her mother, Rose, remained a house slave…
Portraiture and the Mexican American Experience
Curator Taína Caragol gives you a tour of a portrait of the late sculptor Luis Jiménez by Gaspar Enríquez at…
Watch: Common Rallies Behind Michelle Obama to Get Out the Vote [Corrected] | The Root
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Anne Branigin The Root Actor and American hip-hop musician Common (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times),…
Gorgeous New ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Trailer Celebrates Black Families | Colorlines
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Sameer Rao Colorlines Stephan James, left, and KiKi Layne appear in a scene from “If Beale Street…
The Black Communities That Have Fought for Their Right to Exist in the Carolinas | CityLab
There has been much deserved panic about the thousands of pigs and open-air waste lagoons in the path of Hurricane…
Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 | The New York Times
Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested…
City Caught Trying To Grab Senior Citizen’s Brownstone | Kings County Politics
The city today abruptly reversed a decision to take a senior citizen’s brownstone house on a gentrified Crown Heights block…
Meet the gallant all-black American female battalion that served in Europe during World War II | Face2Face Africa
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson Face2Face Africa The first time American women fought in a war was during the…
Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Armenian carpet-cutting ceremony
In Armenia, the completion of a carpet and cutting it from its loom is a significant rite of passion for…
This 26-year-old Nigerian is now the highest paid robotics engineer in the world | Face2Face Africa
A 26-year-old Nigerian, credited for building the world’s first gaming robot, has just become the highest paid in the field…
Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ | The New York Times
On Wednesday afternoon, I traveled to the charming but unassuming neighborhood of Juniper Hill in White Plains to speak with…
People Of Color Are Still Being Locked Out of the Democratic Process | Colorlines
A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says that, 53 years after the implementation of the Voting…
Afro-Ecuadorian women & girls are celebrated in this rare, touching photo series | Afropunk
Denisse Ariana Perez and her aunt, an Afro-Caribbean woman who is a professor in social education, embarked on a journey…
Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave | The New York Times
Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made…
Harlem’s mission to rename streets after black women before it’s too late | The Guardian
The building, built in 1901, housed many illustrious characters of the Harlem renaissance, the art and literary movement which reshaped…
Black Organization Seeks Clemency For Incarcerated Women & Families | BlackNews.com
Boston, MA — According to a 2017 report, by the Prison Policy Initiative, there are over 219,000 incarcerated women in…
The Color Line | Baltimore Magazine
On a rainy summer afternoon, Myrtis Bedolla, a highly respected gallerist and art dealer, sits in her second-floor office overlooking…
How Black women are organizing to energize voters | The Philadelphia Tribune
The revolution done signed my name,” they moaned, invoking the names of the ancestors whose strength has willed them to…
Obama’s Back! | The New York Times
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Charles M. Blow, The New York Times Former President Barack Obama will deliver a speech that will…
Arthur Ashe’s real legacy was his activism, not his tennis | The Guardian
Fifty years ago this week, Arthur Ashe shocked the tennis world by winning the men’s singles at the first US…
Race, Class Impact Houston Resisdents’ Recovery From Hurricane Harvey | Colorlines
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, devastating Houston and its surrounding areas. More than a year…
James Baldwin: How To Cool It | Esquire
In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James…
Common and His Mother Help Raise Funds for Public Schools Nationwide | Ebony
The two kicked off the campaign by making a $10,000 donation to the organization and visited a class in New…
The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult | The New York Times
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Pankaj Mishra, The New York Times Matt Chase, Featured Image White men,” an obscure Australian academic named…
Detroit Schools Turn Off Drinking Water, Citing Elevated Lead and Copper | The New York Times
Since 2016, water testing in the district has found elevated levels of lead or copper in dozens of schools. And…
When Having a Progressive Record Isn’t Enough | The Atlantic
Mike Capuano has been a progressive force for decades. The Massachusetts congressman backed “Medicare for All” well before it was…
‘It’s hidden history’: the race to save one man’s collection of black Americana | The Guardian
Oran Z’s house is so crammed with black American memorabilia there is barely room to move. The hallways are lined…
Why LeBron James has carried us long enough The Guardian
When CNN anchor Don Lemon last month asked LeBron James if he harbored any presidential aspirations, it was a question…
The Complicated Activism of Arthur Ashe | Politico
Fifty years ago this September, Arthur Ashe won the first U.S. Open. This was 1968—the year violent civil rights protests…
Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas | The New York Times
Americans who grew up with the fiction that slavery was confined to the South — and that the North had…
Black Women Are Dying During Childbirth. Sen. Kamala Harris Is Working to Change That. | Glamour
For women of color, pregnancy and childbirth are often a matter of life and death. The risk of death from…
Andrew Gillum wins Florida governor primary in upset victory for the left | Vox
Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum prevailed in the hotly contested Democratic primary election for Florida governor, giving the left another marquee…
Aretha Franklin Died from Pancreatic Cancer: Here’s Why It’s So Deadly | Healthline
On August 16, the world lost a legend when Aretha Franklin, the one and only “Queen of Soul,” passed away…
10-Year Old Violinist, Leah Flynn, Plays Tribute to Aretha Franklin on Her Violin | BlackNews
Nationwide — Leah Flynn, a 10-year old violin extraordinaire, is going viral for her recent tribute performance of “Natural Woman”…
Why the New Reprint of James Baldwin’s Children’s Book Still Matters | Colorlines
James Baldwin confused his critics and supporters alike when he published an illustrated children’s book, “Little Man, Little Man: A…
New Smithsonian Film Festival Celebrates Black Cinema | Colorlines
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates Black cinema with its first-ever Smithsonian African American Film…
Monsanto ordered to pay $289m as jury rules weedkiller caused man’s cancer | The Guardian
Monsanto suffered a major blow with a jury ruling that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer,…
Watch rare footage of Louis Armstrong play an open-air concert in pre-independence Ghana | Quartz Africa
Armstrong traveled to Accra with CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow. The legendary broadcaster was in the process of filming a…
‘What’s it like to be black in this system?’: life in a Chicago high school | The Guardian
The acclaimed documentary film-maker Steve James has a gift for zeroing in on the microcosms and enclaves of American culture…
The 40-year-old “prophetic” novel that predicted the troubles of modern-day Zimbabwe | Quartz Africa
Despite his demise, aged 36, on Aug. 18, 1987, the mythology that surrounds Marechera is as obscuring as it is…
The David C. Driskell Center, African American Museums, and Digitizing for Access, Education and Engagement
The David C. Driskell Center presented African American Art: Increasing Resources for Education in the 21st Century at the annual…
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s best photograph: me and my guardian angel | The Guardian
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Edward Siddons, The Guardian ‘She taught me we had value’ … Grandma Ruby and Me. Photograph: LaToya…