by October Gallery
Martina Guzman, The Guardian Kaiesha Rivers, center, comforts daughters Taiyla Young, five, and Jyahri Pye, 11, at a relative’s house in Highland Park, Michigan. Photograph: Erin Kirkland/The Guardian. Featured Image…
The official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key…
Hedon’t be in that neighborhood.” When one court reporter in Philadelphia transcribed that phrase, it turned into this: “We going to be in this neighborhood.” In other words, the opposite…
It’s Friday night, and rapper Too Short’s “Blow the Whistle” is blaring inside of the only black-owned bar in D.C.’s predominantly white Dupont Circle neighborhood. Its patrons, drinks in hand,…
RALEIGH (WTVD) — A local man has become the first African-American to own a cultural art gallery in Raleigh. Jason Franklin opened the art gallery along with his daughter, Ashley,…
This happened at Shea Stadium a few decades ago: My son and I were in a half-empty section, not far from two older black men. One of the Mets made…
Mr. Talaska was not outside the norm. Of the public defenders in Louisiana handling felony caseloads at that time, there were two dozen with even more clients. One had 413.…
Few films at this year’s Sundance will start with quite the same confidence as The Last Man in San Francisco, a melancholic yet vibrant ode to a rapidly gentrifying city.…
Kamala Harris is a half-Jamaican, half-Indian woman from Oakland, California, the daughter of two UC Berkeley grad students. She went to high school in Montreal. She married a wealthy, white,…
According to new data collected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, diversity in museum leadership has increased in recent years — however, the margin of increase has been notably lower…