The 9 Most Essential Toni Morrison Works | Rolling Stone
On August 5th, it was reported that Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the classic works Beloved and The Bluest Eye and one of the greatest 20th century American…
Retracing a slave route in Ghana, 400 years on | Reuters
Siphiwe Sibeko, Francis Korokoro, ReutersNana Assenso, 68, chief of Adidwan, a village in Ghana’s interior, looks on before visiting the grave of his uncle Kwame Badu, in Adidwan, Ashanti Region,…
Trump Fuels Racial Disharmony. Will It Motivate or Discourage Black Voters? | The New York Times
DETROIT — Mark Greer is a black Detroiter so outraged by President Trump’s regular stream of invective toward people of color that he does his best to avoid exposure to…
The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings | The New York Times
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, one of the oldest Roman Catholic girls’ schools in the nation, has long celebrated the vision and generosity of its founders: a determined band of Catholic…
Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott | The New York Times
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.It took all of Georgia Gilmore’s willpower not to explode at the…
The Carrot and the Stick: On Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” | LA Review of Books
The I USED TO THINK novels contained immensities, which came from reading the great works during my college years and the resulting expansion of my mind. I assumed the novels…
Cyntoia Brown Will Be Released From Prison Next Week | Refinery29
Cyntoia Brown is set to walk free next Wednesday, exactly eight months after former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam commuted her sentence. Brown, now 31, had been serving a life sentence…
Hayes has ‘heightened sense of awareness’ about security concerns | The CT Mirror
Washington – With threats against members of Congress on the rise and President Donald Trump issuing hostile tweets against lawmakers of color, Rep. Jahana Hayes is taking extra care during…
City erects its first statue of an African American girl in South Philly | Curbed: Philadelphia
Philly’s first-ever statue of a freestanding African American girl was unveiled this week in West Passyunk’s Smith Playground. The statue, which is called MVP, was created by Brian McCutcheon in…
Ilhan Omar: It Is Not Enough to Condemn Trump’s Racism | The New York Times
Throughout history, demagogues have used state power to target minority communities and political enemies, often culminating in state violence. Today, we face that threat in our own country, where the…