10 Alternative/Goth Styled Women of Color who are killin the game | Punk Black
It can be challenging to put together your own unique style, and even more challenging to do it well. These women not only kick ass at putting together their own…
Searing New Documentary Reveals Lynching is “Always In Season” | Daily Kos
This year’s Sundance Film Festival saw the premier of an important, emotionally wrenching documentary that exposes the raw and bleeding but unrecognized wound of lynching in the US past and…
For Black GIs in Saigon, ‘Soul Alley’ was an oasis of food and vice | Public Radio International
You might hear about the nightclubs run by black soldiers who’d deserted the conflict. Or that tailor shop that sold the same sharp suits you’d find in Superfly-era Harlem. And…
How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll | Literary Hub
Zora Neale Hurston is one of America’s most beloved literary figures, an influential writer, anthropologist, and giant of the Harlem Renaissance; her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is…
This Ram Was a Patriot | Slate
Michael J. Socolow Slate Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Willie Miller before a game in 1979. NFL/AP. Featured Image The Nov. 12, 1978, game between the Los Angeles Rams and…
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…