by October Gallery
Many people ignored the truth of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s life as they rushed to demonize him during the trial of his killer, vigilante George Zimmerman. His family and supporters now…
Buried under three feet and two centuries of earth near the banks of the Manatee River, a cylinder of white clay no bigger than a cigarette butt was found in…
PHILADELPHIA — Marion Lane discovered the faded photograph after her stepmother died, crammed in a closet with her stepmother’s Sunday dresses. She unrolled it and there was her father, young,…
By Maria Anderson PeclersParis inspiration materials. (Smithsonian photo by Matt Flynn) Color surrounds us. Both outside and inside our homes, color is often the first thing we notice. The natural…
Black filmmakers, screen artists and cinephiles will converge on Philadelphia on August 2-5 for the 7th annual BlackStar Film Festival.* Artistic director Maori Karmael Holmes previewed this year’s festivities with…
This Wednesday (July 4), marks Independence Day, even as protesters mark America’s denial of liberty to people of color. As The Associated Press noted yesterday (July 1), formerly enslaved abolitionist…
In a joint letter, the Education and Justice Departments announced that they had rescinded seven Obama-era policy guidelines on affirmative action, which, the departments said, “advocate policy preferences and positions…
Damon While attending Howard University, Damon Lawrence worked in the hotel industry as a front desk agent, and decided he would own his own hotels one day with one exception–his…
The United States Senate’s three black members introduced a bill on Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The move came more than two weeks after a similar…
The question in many people’s minds is: where are the Afro-Argentines? Historical records indicate that Africans landed in the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina to work in plantations…