The Heavy Burden of Teaching My Son About American Racism | The Atlantic
When I saw the sign for the Emmett Till Museum, I knew I had to take the next exit. As a Ph.D. student in American history studying the civil-rights movement,…
Hakeem Jeffries Emerges as New Face of House Democrats | The New York Times
Mr. Jeffries, a 48-year-old Brooklynite with a golden tongue, was elected by his fellow Democrats on Wednesday to the relatively obscure position of chairman of the House Democratic caucus. It…
Ava DuVernay Secures the Bag With $100 Million Warner Bros. TV Deal | The Root
Supa Ava DuVernay’s ascension to Hollywood black royalty status has been something of a Cinderella story, and with her most recent achievement, her tale just got that much richer—so to…
Mississippi’s black Republicans stick with Hyde-Smith | McClatchy DC
I just choose to look at it as a possible mistake and chalk it up to that,” said John Mosley Jr., an African American Republican who ran for mayor of…
The App at the Heart of the Movement to End Affirmative Action | The Atlantic
OiYan Poon stumbled upon WeChat largely by accident. Poon is a professor at Colorado State University who studies the racial politics of higher education. For years she had consistently found…
Beauty Entrepreneur Breaks Down After Making $1 Million In 90 Minutes | Atlanta Black Star
Supa started off doing hilarious videos on the popular social platform “The Vine” in 2013 and she instantly became a viral sensation. She later started her own cosmetic business “The…
Memo to black men: Stop voting Republican | Boston Globe
In the midterm elections, about 17 percent of black men voted to give Texas Republican Ted Cruz another term in the Senate. Around about 11 percent supported Georgia gubernatorial candidate…
Oprah Winfrey’s Mother Vernita Lee Has Passed Away At Age 83 | In Touch Weekly
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Editorial Staff , In Touch Weekly Members of the audience wait for President Donald Trump to arrive at the 2018 Young Black Leadership Summit in the East…
A National Gallery show examines Gordon Parks’s early years | The Washington Post
He was the youngest of his father’s 15 children. He wrote in his high school yearbook that he wanted to be “a general or a Jazz Sheik.” Gordon Parks fell…
To Raise, Love, and Lose a Black Child | The Atlantic
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Ta-Nehisi Coates , The Atlantic Jordan Davis and his mother, Lucia McBath. COURTESY LUCIA MCBATH. Featured Image Last Friday, I called Jordan Davis’s mother Lucia McBath. It’s…