Protecting Puerto Rico’s heritage from another disaster
By Hannah S. Ostroff An evacuation exercise in Puerto Rico, held during training by the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (Photo by Yuisa Rios, FEMA) When a natural disaster strikes, it…
‘Well-Read Black Girl’ Is Bigger Than Glory Edim | The New York Times
The sky was gray, rain minutes from spilling over onto the diasporic spread of bantu knots, dreads, twist-outs, wash-and-gos, afros and braids below; one woman covered her pressed hair with…
Droids visit Smithsonian | Smithsonian Insider
On May 4, 2018, members of the DC R2D2 Builders Club visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History with their droids. Along with thousands of visitors, Smithsonian Secretary David…
She Was Left At a Daycare Doorstep, Now N.C. Woman Is Reconnecting with Biological Parents Thanks to DNA Testing | Atlanta Black Star
I found my mom and dad!” she exclaimed. Bradley, 27, recently got a hit on Ancestry.com that led to her father, which then led her to her mother, WFMY News…
This Abandoned Texas Church Once Destroyed By The Klan Is In A Contest For Revitalization Money | Texas Standard
The city of San Marcos has been one of the country’s fastest-growing in the past several years. As that growth continues, a group of community members are making an effort…
An African American artist’s “remixing” of apartheid-era images is raising questions about appropriation | Quartz Africa
The image had been recreated by African American conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas as part of his series History Doesn’t Laugh. Days later, acclaimed anti-apartheid photographer Peter Magubane learned that…
The Black Struggle for Technology Jobs | The Atlantic
After Atlanta made the shortlist of cities vying for Amazon’s second global headquarters, HQ2, it submitted a multibillion-dollar investment to try to seal the deal. (Other cities’ proposals were even…
The Tricky Allure of Becoming a Black American Expatriate | The Atlantic
In his 1960 short story “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon,” which was first published in The Atlantic, James Baldwin describes the pervasive feeling that informed his expatriatism: the bitter…
Restoration of Horace Jenkins’ African-American Romeo & Juliet to Premiere in New Orleans and DC | Roger Ebert.com
The tale, to me, was the equivalent of a modern day folkloric Romeo & Juliet with African-American protagonists from Louisiana. Schulberg’s organization, IndieCollect, identified an archive of almost four thousand…
‘I’m ecstatic’: black liberation prisoner Mike Africa Sr released after 40 years | The Guardian
Mike Africa Sr has become the second member of the Philadelphia-based group of black radicals known as the Move 9 to be released from prison, more than 40 years after…