by October Gallery
Netflix will bring the story of one of history’s most trailblazing Black entrepreneurs to life, courtesy of an upcoming limited series. Variety reported yesterday (July 29) that the streaming giant…
THE NEW NEGRO The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C. Stewart932 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. Alain LeRoy Locke’s drive to revolutionize black culture was fueled in no small…
By nearly every measure, Lucy McBath wasn’t supposed to get this far in the Democratic race for Congress in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. She’s a mom who became a national…
The suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular understanding…
After leaving the agency, the agent, Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook) moves to Chicago, and puts his training in guerrilla warfare to use: he organizes a group of black gang members…
Kenyette Tisha Barnes will not listen to R. Kelly’s “I Admit,” the 19-minute musical response to critics of his alleged decades of sexual violence toward Black girls and women that…
LaDawn Jones is a black Democrat from Atlanta. For four years, her seatmate in the Georgia House of Representatives was Jason Spencer, a white Republican from the southern tip of…
An African-American journalist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett worked to expose lynching, pushed for women’s right to vote and started numerous organizations to help African-Americans gain economic and political power across the…
FORT RUCKER, Ala. — An Alabama soldier has made history as the first black female pilot in the state National Guard’s history. News outlets report that 2nd Lt. Kayla Freeman…
Celebrations are underway to mark the 20th anniversary of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. The four-day commemoration features panel discussions, re-enactments, book signings and a special acknowledgment…