Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem | Black Perspectives
L ift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it feels as if it has always been a part…
The untold story of the Wild West’s black cowboys | CNN
The image of a typical American cowboy — a rough-hewn white guy in dirt stained blue jeans, cowboy hat and boots — is a staple of Western movies and modern…
25 Black Women Launches To Celebrate Black Women In The Beauty Business | Essence
When you walk into a room filled with some of the most powerful Black female executives, businesswomen, entrepreneurs, and influencers in the beauty industry, you can expect magic to be…
Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six | Black Perspectives
The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central Park Five, a legal case that for many of…
Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition | Open Culture
It may well be a truism to say that American music is African American music, but that doesn’t make it any less true. And when we reduce truths down to…
Uncovering the Soul of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement | The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — Images of black Americans’ deaths and suffering have been a permanent fixture in our cultural history, while those celebrating black personhood and pleasure have been less widely…
Sankofa bookstore on track for tax relief as it fights to stay alive | WUSA9
WASHINGTON — An independent African-American owned bookstore in D.C. is on track to get a big tax break. Sankofa bookstore near Howard University has been a cultural hub through decades…
Segregated By Design: An Animated Look at How African-American Enclaves in U.S. Cities Is Hardly an Accident | Aeon
The majority African-American enclaves found in every major US city are no accident of history. And, although societal racism certainly played its part, de facto segregation isn’t the prime culprit…
Little Known Black History Fact: National Black Network | Black America Web
The National Black Network became the first coast-to-coast radio network fully owned by Black Americans on July 2, 1973. The NBN was the brainchild of white media executive Robert Pauley,…
Lead Belly | Folkways Recordings
Lead Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949). From the…