Herbie Hancock Is Still Breaking Rules | The New York Times
If jazz for you means tradition and inheritance, maybe Herbie Hancock can change your mind. At the very least, he’d like to make you think twice about what “tradition” means.…
‘Brian Banks’: Football Star Who Was Wrongfully Imprisoned Shares His Story For “People Who Are Currently Voiceless” | Deadline
The story told in Brian Banks is unfortunately all too familiar. The eponymous biopic, directed by Tom Shadyac, chronicles the true story of the All-American football player who had committed…
Racist Display at Miami Airport Spurs T.S.A. Investigation | The New York Times
Two Transportation Security Administration officers were placed on leave after a racist display was discovered in a baggage-screening area at Miami International Airport, the agency said on Tuesday. As seen…
How My FAMU Sorority Sisters And I Are Working To Change The Narrative Around Haiti | Blavity
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Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020 | NBC News
Not that long ago, they were just a slender fraction of the party, one kept at arm’s length by presidential candidates. But today, black voters have emerged as a muscular…
John Legend Rips Donald Trump as ‘Racist’ ‘Piece of S-‘ After President’s Baltimore Rant | People.com
John Legend held nothing back in a scathing assessment of President Donald Trump this week, calling the Republican a “flaming racist” and an “evil f— canker sore” on the United…
To win a murder conviction, police and prosecutors made up evidence and secretly paid a witness, St. Louis DA finds | The Washington Post
The state’s theory stretched the physical limits of the human body. Somehow on the night of Oct. 30, 1994, Lamar Johnson left his friend’s apartment, traveled three miles to Marcus…
16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America | The New York Times
When Ashleigh Shanti, 29, journeyed across the country on a six-month sabbatical last year, she decided that her next step as a chef needed to fulfill a critical desire: cooking…
Car mechanic shifts gears, becomes a doctor at age 47 and helps address shortage of black doctors | Cleveland.com
Carl Allamby became an expert diagnostician after spending his childhood ducking his head under the hoods of Chevys and Fords with the older guys in his East Cleveland neighborhood. If…
Rapper Common, developers planning massive movie studio campus as part of South Works redevelopment | Chicago Tribune
Chicago rapper Common and a group of real estate developers are drawing up plans to convert the massive former U.S. Steel plant on the city’s south lakefront into a massive…