Ghana: How Ghana Went Above and Beyond For Year of Return 2019
Cape Town — Ghana is to launch a multi-million dollar fund aimed at attracting investment from members of the African diaspora in the United States and around the world –…
Did Dershowitz Say He Was ‘Not Happy Seeing Nixon’s Gang Being Tried by Blacks and Liberals’?
Searching the long quote trails of public figures often turns up interesting statements from days past. In mid-January 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan…
Color of Hockey: Canada Post stamp celebrates Black History Month
Pays tribute to nearly forgotten early 20th-century players, league in Maritimes William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog for the past eight years. Douglas joined NHL.com in…
The Hunting of Billie Holiday
How Lady Day was in the middle of a Federal Bureau of Narcotics fight for survival From his first day in office in 1930, Harry Anslinger had a problem, and…
Jimmy Heath, 93, Jazz Saxophonist and Composer, Is Dead
Jimmy Heath, a tenor saxophonist whose sharp and lively compositions became part of the midcentury jazz canon — and who found new prominence in middle age as a co-leader of…
‘I believe in white supremacy’: John Wayne’s notorious 1971 Playboy interview goes viral on Twitter (2019)
John Wayne is never going to be confused for a progressive by anyone familiar with his life and career. The actor was famous as one of Hollywood’s staunchest conservatives: a…
America’s Black Holocaust Museum Hopes To Reopen Its Doors This Year
Thanks To A Donation, The Museum Plans To Open In Summer 2020 America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) in Milwaukee is a step closer to reopening its doors after being closed…
Michelle Obama Wins Grammy Award For Audio Recording Of ‘Becoming’ Memoir
Fans are hoping the former first lady will go on to become an EGOT. Michelle Obama is now a Grammy winner. The former first lady took home the trophy in…
The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Before there was the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience. From its very first moments in print on…
Program Teaches Prisoners How to Code So They Can Get Tech Jobs Once Released
San Francisco, CA — The Last Mile, a prison rehabilitation program based in San Quentin, California, offers prisoners free training on how to code. This equips them with the training…