by October Gallery
More than 120 missing children have been found in just one day during a wide-scale law enforcement operation in Michigan. Authorities located 123 children in the Wayne County area, which…
Idlewild, Michigan was once known as “The Black Eden”—a resort where black writers, business people, physicians and entertainers spent their summers in a racially segregated country. In its earliest days,…
Abrams drew national attention in her bid to become the first black female governor in the United States, and the progressive political action committee Democracy for America included her in…
As its title indicates, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University, presents a three-stage…
He was known for his illustrious career as an author and literary pioneer of the 19th century, but this came at a high cost since Alexander Dumas was a Frenchman…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Lola Fadulu , The Atlantic STEPHEN VOSS / WAMU 88.5 / KATIE MARTIN / THE ATLANTIC Featured Image When Joshua Johnson, the host of WAMU 88.5’s 1A,…
A new art gallery has opened in Fishtown that’s dedicated to showing the works of female artists of color, and it draws its inspiration from a decades-before-her-time “maker” (and candy-shop…
Homeownership lies at the heart of the American Dream, representing success, opportunity and wealth. And it should. But new data helps confirm that racism is taking money out of black…
One of Africa’s literary giants Albert Chinualumogu Achebe passed away in 2013 aged 82 but his works continue to make headlines. Achebe’s first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) which is…
Cory Booker, one of a half-dozen Democrats routinely mentioned as a Presidential contender, is a man of singularly intense enthusiasms. He is a vegan and, after a Rhodes Scholarship and…