by October Gallery
When Kerry Lathan was released on parole after serving 25 years for murder, he went to rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle’s Marathon store for some free clothes, so he could…
Last April the public were made aware that long-term British Caribbean residents and citizens were being locked up and forcibly removed, and denied jobs, health care, education, housing and employment…
I love Baby Boy reruns as much as the next person, but I’ve wondered for years why BET completely abandoned their daily news programming. And with TV One’s decision to…
This interview was conducted on April 27, 1964. It first appeared in Robert Penn Warren’s 1965 book, Who Speaks for the Negro? Robert Penn Warren: In what sense, Mr. James…
You can’t silence Jemele Hill. The sports journalist grabbed national headlines with anti-GOP tweets that prompted the White House to try to have her fired from ESPN. Hill has since…
The racial wealth divide is greater now than it was 40 years ago—and persistent structural racism is causing that gap to grow. That’s according to a new report, “Ten Solutions…
PhenomenalBlack owned farms make up less than 2 percent of all farms in the United States. According to a recent report, Black farmers lost 80 percent of their farmland from…
Phenomenal Woman: An Evening with Maya Angelou,” a new show about the late poet, author and National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, is being developed for…
SAN FRANCISCO — In one of the murals, George Washington points westward over the dead body of a Native American. Another depicts Washington’s slaves, hunched over, working in the fields…
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Gordon Parks made it look easy. As director of the Shaft detective movies in the 1970s, and as a composer, author, winner of the National Medal of…