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Florida voters during Tuesday’s midterm elections approved Amendment 4, automatically restoring voting rights in the state for people previously convicted of felonies. Florida’s Amendment 4 restores voting rights for people…
In the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine, the essayist and fiction author James Baldwin wrote a piercing love letter to the neighborhood of his birth. “Fifth Avenue, Uptown” detailed…
Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar have become the first Muslim women elected to US Congress. Tlaib took Michigan’s 13th congressional district in a race in which she was…
They were arrested, and taken to jail. Prosecutors sought a stiff penalty — living in reform school until they were 21. “The Kissing Case,” as it came to be known,…
By Michelle Z. Donahue “Access + Ability,” at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum “It’s a wide-open field, there for the taking,” says Cara McCarty about the innovative designs featured…
Tales of Mansa Musa, Prince Nicolau, Queen Ranavanolla III and the one-eyed Queen Amanirenas have been told over and over to elevate African history, sense of pride and identity. Aside…
By Brendan L. Smith From left, artist Kehinde Wiley, artist Amy Sherald, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet, Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton, former First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Barack…
If you showed up at Sisters Chapel at Atlanta’s Spelman College last Friday hoping to divine some sort of 2020-themed meaning from Kamala Harris’s address, you were amply rewarded. The…
By Michelle Z. Donahue “Manifestipi,” (installation detail) 2016 by ITWÉ Collective. Courtesy of ITWÉ and Collection Majudia. (Photo by Joshua Voda/National Museum of the American Indian) When ‘Manifestipi’ first debuted…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Debbie Elliott , NPR “Birmingham Alabama Smithfield Bombing damage, 1949. Party living on the first floor the Curry home sits on his bed pointing to damage to…