There’s Nothing Wrong With Black English | The Atlantic
Not The Nation recently published a poem in which a homeless narrator speaks a complex, nuanced variety of English with a long and interesting history. The variety of English is…
‘I felt I was not a good mom’: Serena Williams details post-partum struggles | The Guardian
Williams suffered the heaviest defeat of her career last week when she lost 6-1, 6-0 in just 52 minutes to Britain’s Johanna Konta at the the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic.…
“Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France | The New Yorker
Not long after France beat Croatia in the final match of the 2018 World Cup, on Sunday, the French sociologist Edgar Morin, who is ninety-seven, tweeted that the victory of…
A black fire chief faces hatred online before his first day on the job | The Washington Post
Even before he arrives in Northern Virginia, the new fire chief for one of the country’s wealthiest suburbs heard the reason some people don’t want him there: his skin color.…
The pioneering prints of Dox Thrash | CBS New
From time to time we like to take a look at the works of artists who are far too often over-looked. To Faith Salie now, and an artist with the…
Watch the Emotional First Trailer for Barry Jenkins’s New Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ | Vice
Academy Award–winning director Barry Jenkins has been pretty busy since stunning audiences with Moonlight. He’s reportedly working with Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman on a 1970s plane hijacking thriller, turning The…
Kwaku Anansi: The only folklore character to travel out of Africa and become a global symbol of resistance | Face2Face Africa
Amongst all the African folktale characters that exist, Kwaku Anansi is the most popular and important. The West African folktale character is a spider with human characteristics from the Akan…
How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History | Smithsonian Magazine
Two hundred and five years ago, on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S.…
Possible key to black boys’ academic success: Hire black men as elementary school teachers | Chicago Tribune
Neat the end of his freshman year at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ja’Waun Williams heard that a dean there had been a member of the fraternity Williams was…
How to Win Elections in a System ‘Not Set Up for Us’ | The Atlantic
ATLANTA— It was midway through a sticky Georgia Saturday, and Jessica Byrd was dispelling myths about the way black women are supposed to run for office in 2018. About 120…