by October Gallery
[ad_1] Black filmmakers, screen artists and cinephiles will converge on Philadelphia on August 2-5 for the 7th annual BlackStar Film Festival.* Artistic director Maori Karmael Holmes previewed this year’s festivities…
[ad_1] This Wednesday (July 4), marks Independence Day, even as protesters mark America’s denial of liberty to people of color. As The Associated Press noted yesterday (July 1), formerly enslaved…
[ad_1] In a joint letter, the Education and Justice Departments announced that they had rescinded seven Obama-era policy guidelines on affirmative action, which, the departments said, “advocate policy preferences and…
[ad_1] Damon While attending Howard University, Damon Lawrence worked in the hotel industry as a front desk agent, and decided he would own his own hotels one day with one…
[ad_1] The United States Senate’s three black members introduced a bill on Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The move came more than two weeks after a…
[ad_1] The question in many people’s minds is: where are the Afro-Argentines? Historical records indicate that Africans landed in the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina to work in…
[ad_1] A new deal between Sony Music Entertainment and the estate of the late Prince Rogers Nelson will allow fans to reconnect with nearly three dozen albums from his catalog.…
[ad_1] The movers and shakers from the continent are not only influential icons through philanthropic ventures, but also through a multitude of breakthroughs in business and lifestyle by flying the…
[ad_1] The National Trust for Historic Preservation features sites of historic and cultural importance to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Caribbean communities—all threatened by nature or development—on its 2018 list of…
[ad_1] As we mentioned in our last post, the digitization project for the David C. Driskell Archive is in full swing. But right around that time, we hit an impasse.…