Category: Culture

The Black Mayors Remaking the South | The Atlantic A new generation of leaders is leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street. By Adam Harris,…

Trump Nears Post-Nixon First: No Black Circuit Judges (Appeals Court) | Bloomberg Law By Madison Alder (Reporter) & Jasmine Ye Han (Data Reporter), Bloomberg Law Donald Trump is on track…

Founder of Black-Owned Vegan Soul Food Restaurant Chain to Open 3 New Locations | Black Enterprise By Black Enterprise Editors, Black Enterprise Tamearra Dyson, the chef and owner of Souley…

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald A high-profile lawyer, constitutional scholar and head of the Port-au-Prince bar was gunned down Friday night in Haiti. Just hours before, he called for “another…

Driskell Center Archives Blog The David C. Driskell Center presented African American Art: Increasing Resources for Education in the 21st Century at the annual conference for the Association of African…

Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Armenian carpet-cutting ceremony Home / Art / In Art, History & Culture, Video / 21 September 2018 In Armenia, the completion of a carpet and cutting it…

Portraiture and the Mexican American Experience Home / Art / In Art, History & Culture, Meet Our People, Video / 26 September 2018 Curator Taína Caragol gives you a tour…

What is Con Safos? Josh T. Franco, national collector for Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, explains a copyright created by Mexican American artists to safeguard their work and reaffirm their…

Abbott’s BinaxNOW uses the same technology as a pregnancy test By Nicole Wetsman, The Verge A COVID-19 test that takes 15 minutes and can be run without lab equipment was…

“To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who…