The White Flight From Football | The Atlantic
Shantavia jackson signed her three sons up for football to keep them out of trouble. As a single mother who works the night shift at a Home Depot warehouse 50…
Candice Payne Got 30 Hotel Rooms for Homeless People in Chicago During Severe Cold Snap | The New York Times
As temperatures plunged to life-threatening lows this week, more than 100 homeless people in Chicago unexpectedly found themselves with food, fresh clothes and a place to stay after a local…
5 Small Business Grants for Black Women Entrepreneurs in 2019 | Black Enterprise
As women-owned businesses continue to grow, one of the significant obstacles they face is unequal access to funding and venture capital. While most people seek business loans, small business grants…
The Women Behind The Songs: Jessie Mae Robinson | NPR
Many may know Wanda Jackson’s 1960s hit “Let’s Have a Party,” or even the versions performed by Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley, but most will not recognize the name of…
Sundance Film Review: ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ | Variety
Director: Stanley NelsonWith: Frances Taylor Davis, Juliette Gréco, Stanley Crouch, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Farah Griffin, Gerald Early, Greg Tate, Carl Lumbly. Release Date: Jan 27, 2019Official Site: http://www.sundance.org/projects/miles-davis-birth-of-the-cool Miles…
Welcome to Detroit, where black babies are at higher risk of death | The Guardian
Martina Guzman, The Guardian Kaiesha Rivers, center, comforts daughters Taiyla Young, five, and Jyahri Pye, 11, at a relative’s house in Highland Park, Michigan. Photograph: Erin Kirkland/The Guardian. Featured Image…
What the ‘Father of Black History’ Would Have Actually Wanted Americans to Do for Black History Month | Time
The official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key…
Speaking Black Dialect in Courtrooms Can Have Striking Consequences | The New York Times
Hedon’t be in that neighborhood.” When one court reporter in Philadelphia transcribed that phrase, it turned into this: “We going to be in this neighborhood.” In other words, the opposite…
Black-Owned Businesses Carve Out Space In An Increasingly Gentrified D.C. | Shoppe Black
It’s Friday night, and rapper Too Short’s “Blow the Whistle” is blaring inside of the only black-owned bar in D.C.’s predominantly white Dupont Circle neighborhood. Its patrons, drinks in hand,…
Raleigh man opens first African-American-owned cultural art gallery | ABC11 Raleigh Durham
RALEIGH (WTVD) — A local man has become the first African-American to own a cultural art gallery in Raleigh. Jason Franklin opened the art gallery along with his daughter, Ashley,…