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…
Olivia Hooker, Tulsa Race Riot Survivor, Dies At 103 | NPR
Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We’re now going to look back at the life of Olivia Hooker. She has died at the age of 103. If you don’t know her name,…
Meet the 10-Year Old Entrepreneur Taking the Fashion World by Storm! | Black Business.Org
Hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa, 10-year old Enhle Gebashe is already pursuing her dreams of becoming a well-known fashion designer and entrepreneur. She most recently founded Enhle Babes Couture, a…
Something in the Water: Virginia Beach gives OK for Pharrell’s festival proposal to move forward | 13News Now
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) — Grammy-award winner and Virginia Beach native Pharrell Williams has big ideas for Hampton Roads, and on Tuesday night, city council members showed their initial support…
HBCUs Set Foundation for Black Politicians in Key Positions | The Washington Informer
Approximately 40 percent of the members of Congress are HBCU graduates, according to the Network Journal, a Black professional and small business magazine. And recipients of The United Negro College…
Florida sues drugstores Walgreens and CVS for alleged role in opioid crisis | The Guardian
The state attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced late on Friday that she had added the companies to a state-court lawsuit filed last spring against Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin,…
How I Got My Art Job: Naima Keith of California’s African American Museum on Quitting a PhD to Pursue Her Dreams | Artnet News
From fabricators to mummy conservators to private collection managers, the art world is full of fascinating jobs you may not have realized even existed. In artnet News’s column “My Art…