How Jim Crow Went to China in the Making of Big Tobacco | Truthout
The cigarette industry played a paradigm-shifting role in the rise of corporate power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It drew on Jim Crow to expand globally, and…
Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Lee Malvo, the D.C. Sniper | The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Lee Malvo, the younger of the two men who terrorized the Washington region with sniper shootings in the fall…
‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement | The Washington Post
On the night of Feb. 18, 1965, black high school senior Leroy Moton was arrested for the “crime” of walking peacefully for half a block in Marion, Ala. Accompanied by…
Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price | The New York Times
Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times McArthur Binion, the abstract painter, at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York. Underappreciated for decades, his work now sells briskly for up to…
Pa. Man Who Gives Free Haircuts to the Homeless Receives Free Barbershop From Stranger | The Root
Winter is approaching and, with it, all the difficult weather conditions that often apply. Because of that, one kindhearted Philadelphia man thought that he would have to temporarily give up…
Chinese imports ‘driving fishermen to despair’ | BBC News
As the frozen fish defrosts under the hot Kenyan sun, fishmonger Mechak Juma prefers not to tell his customers that it has come all the way from China. We are…
Meet Tiffany Alexander, 27, co-founder of a pediatrics urgent care facility in Birmingham | Birmingham Times
Spending long periods of time in a hospital with her mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer, gave Tiffany Alexander a love for health care and helping others. “We always…
Donna Brazile Explains Why She’s Working for Fox News | The New Yorker
Donna Brazile, who has twice served as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, is one of the most prominent political strategists of recent times. Brazile, Al Gore’s campaign…
This Nigerian boy just became a chess champion in New York | BBC
Tanitoluwa Adewumi left his home in northern Nigeria with his family in 2017, because of the ongoing attacks by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. He moved with his family…
The One and Only Naomi Osaka | The Undefeated
One year ago, Naomi Osaka was the 68th-best women’s tennis player in the world. She was prone, in moments of frustration, to screaming, banging her racket, even crying. She would…