The Many Pioneering Lives of Etta Moten Barnett | WTTW
How many acts can someone fit into a life? If you’re Etta Moten Barnett, enough to make up an epic play. From a young wife and mother to a trailblazing…
Cecil McDonald’s extraordinary photos of ordinary life | Chicago Reader
If you’re headed to the fourth floor of the Cultural Center for a look at the work of Charles Harrison and the rest of the “African American Designers in Chicago”…
Will Packer To Produce ‘The Atlanta Child Murders’ For Investigation Discovery – TCA | Deadline
The Girls Trip and Night School producer is making The Atlanta Child Murders for the Discovery-owned network. The three-part special will air on the cable network on March 23. The…
Revisiting the Legacy of Howard Thurman, the Mystic of the Civil Rights Movement | Religion & Politics
In February, local PBS stations will premiere an hour-long documentary about a theological giant of the twentieth century, Howard Thurman (1899-1981). Famous among activists for his influence on the civil…
Stream the “Complete” John Coltrane Playlist: A 94-Hour Journey Through 700+ Transformative Tracks | Open Culture
In a contrarian take on the legacy of John Coltrane on the 50th anniversary of his death last year, Zack Graham at GQ did not recommend Giant Steps nor A…
Haiti: People protest demanding President Moise’s resignation | Al Jazeera
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, who has been blamed for the country’s economic woes by the…
Living Near Your Grandmother Has Evolutionary Benefits | NPR
Killer whales, Japanese aphids and Homo sapiens — they’re among the few organisms whose females live on long past the age of reproduction. Since the name of the evolutionary game…
Nehanda Abiodun, 68, Black Revolutionary Who Fled to Cuba, Dies | New York Times
Nehanda Abiodun, a radical black nationalist who was charged in the deadly botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck in 1981 and then spent decades as a fugitive in Cuba,…
22 Black Owned Luxury Brands To Support Instead of GUCCI and Prada | Shoppe Black
Gucci issued an apology for the offense caused by their “blackface sweater”. I don’t accept. In fact, at this point, I’m convinced that these “mistakes” are part of these folks’…
Man Sees $1 Baseball Bat at Garage Sale and Discovers Its Jackie Robinson’s | The Epoch Times
One never knows what he or she might find at a garage sale, and one man in Iowa can definitely attest to this statement. Bruce Scapecchi, of Des Moines, is…