Here’s The Hidden History Behind This Famous Stephanie Mills Song
By Kimberly Wilson, Essence If you’re not familiar with the Mtume songwriting team James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, then it’s time you brush up on your Black music history. Stephanie…
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By Kimberly Wilson, Essence If you’re not familiar with the Mtume songwriting team James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, then it’s time you brush up on your Black music history. Stephanie…
By Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times As Art Basel opens online, African-American galleries are glaringly absent. Art Basel’s online viewing rooms went live on Thursday, presenting 281 of the…
By Rebecca Onion, Slate In the 1930s, the federal government sent (mostly white) interviewers to learn about slavery from former slaves. Can we trust the stories they brought back? When…
By David Dahmer, Madison 365 The immense impact that Bella Sobah made on everybody that she met in her life was nothing short of incredible and inspiring. Her family, her…
By Jorge Solis, Newsweek 21 years ago, an unarmed Amadou Diallo was tragically killed by four plain-clothed New York City police officers, who fired 41 shots at him. Last month,…
By Mabinty Quarshie, N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Anne Godlasky, Jim Sergent, and Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY When people talk about systemic racism, they mean systemic: impacting institutions, policies and outcomes across all…
By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 21, 1940, a twenty-six-year-old black man named Jesse Thornton referred to a passing police officer by his name: Doris Rhodes. When…
By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 13, 1961, an interracial group of eighteen rabbis and ministers participated in a freedom ride to Tallahassee, Florida, sponsored by the…
By Bill Littlefield, WBUR On April 23, 1971, the Supreme Court voted to send the world’s best-known athlete to jail. The count was 5-3, with Justice Thurgood Marshall recusing himself,…
By Ben Kesslen, NBC News The discrimination complaint says corrections personnel of color were barred from the floor where the former officer accused in George Floyd’s death was held. Eight…