WATCH: New Doc Captures Black Southerners’ Resistance | Colorlines
The lives and struggles of residents in four Black communities throughout the South take center stage in “What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?” Screen Daily premiered the…
[VIDEO] Ibeyi: The French-Cuban twins who sing in Yoruba | BBC
Ibeyi is a band made up of two French-Cuban sisters, who often sing in the West African language Yoruba. They learnt the language, which differs somewhat from what is spoken…
Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full” | The AV Club
For Stephan James, 2018 was all about getting home, whether he was playing a star-crossed lover in Barry Jenkins’ singular romance, If Beale Street Could Talk, or a starry-eyed soldier…
The Jonestown We Don’t Know | The New York Review Of Books
This past November marked forty years since Jonestown, shorthand for the collective suicide of more than 900 Americans in a South American jungle settlement named for the pastor who led…
Kwanzaa in Philly: How neighborhoods celebrate the African-American holiday | Billy Penn
Judith Robinson has been organizing an annual holiday celebration in her Strawberry Mansion neighborhood for four years now. She hosts it always on the second night of Kwanzaa, dedicated to…
Black-Owned Startup Combines Greeting Cards With Technology and Automation | Black News.com
Atlanta— “How many times have you found yourself in this scenario: It’s a friend’s or relative’s birthday and you’re driving to the store at the last minute to buy a…
[VIDEO] New Voices Foundation Acquires Madam C.J. Walker’s Estate To Create Think Tank For Black Women Entrepreneurs | Essence
Just in time for the estate’s 100th anniversary, New Voices Foundation, which was founded by ESSENCE Ventures Chair Richelieu Dennis, has acquired the one-time home of Madam C.J. Walker, known…
26-Year-Old Photographer Nadine Ijewere On Her Historic Vogue Cover | Vogue
When Nadine Ijewere photographed Dua Lipa, Binx Walton, and Letitia Wright on the Kentish coast for this issue’s cover story, she became the first woman of colour to shoot the…
Anthony Browder Makes History as the First African American to Lead and Fund an Archeological Excavation Project in Egypt | Los Angeles Sentinel
Washington DC’s own, Anthony “Tony” Browder makes history as the first African American to lead and fund an archeological excavation project in Egypt. In May 2018, Mr. Browder, his daughter…
Ayanna Pressley Will Get The Old Office Of Shirley Chisholm, First Black Congresswoman | Huffpost
Massachusetts Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley (D), who made history in November as the state’s first black woman elected to Congress, will soon work from the former office of another political trailblazer:…