by October Gallery
Chef Jonny Rhodes from Houston has converted his popular soul food restaurant, Indigo, into a grocery store that gives low-income families better access to high-quality food. He decided to make…
On April 6, 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at an Easter rally in Montgomery, Alabama. Standing on the marked spot on the Capitol steps where Jefferson Davis had…
Nikky Finney has been writing poetry tied to particular events for as long as she can remember. When she was 9 years old, a member of her church congregation tasked…
In Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY there stands a statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims. Sims was known as a pioneer in surgery and often referred to as, “the father…
An Uncomfortable Commentary In the movie Monster-In-Law, Viola (Jane Fonda) and Ruby (Wanda Sykes) have the following exchange that is hands down, the best part of the movie. Viola (JF):…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “You know how to ask the right questions,” the late John Murphy, then-assistant managing editor of the Times-Tribune newspaper in Scranton, Pennsylvania, once told me. “You seem…
Hip-hop legend DJ Jazzy Jeff is the latest celebrity to reveal that he contracted coronavirus. In a pair of posts on Instagram, Jeff revealed that he had a particularly tough…
Beginning on April 5, 1921, a local white plantation owner named John Williams stood trial in rural Georgia for allegedly killing 11 black sharecroppers to try to escape federal charges…
Thasunda Brown Duckett is on a mission. In addition to overseeing the retail banking arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co.—a 5,000-plus branch network with more than $800 billion in deposits…
Just last week we were all ear hustling from our social distance about the invisible opponent that goes by the name COVID-19. Openly, we all wanted to know if we…