This Is How a Black Woman Unravels | The Root
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Temi Oni , The Root I walk a lot. I have a car, but sometimes, it’s nice to be able to look around you and see what’s…
The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation | The Atlantic
For 25 years, the Emory University professor Vanessa Siddle Walker has studied and written about the segregated schooling of black children. In her latest book, The Lost Education of Horace…
An assault on minority voting continues in North Carolina | The Washington Post
WHEN ELECTION officials in North Carolina audited the 2016 vote, they found 441 ballots had been cast by felons on probation or parole who voted despite a state law barring them…
There Is More to Stacey Abrams Than Meets Partisan Eyes | The New York Times
CHATSWORTH, Ga. — Stacey Abrams’s Republican opponent in the Georgia governor’s race is fond of calling her an “out-of-touch radical liberal.” But when Ms. Abrams was beginning her long run…
Malcolm X. Mosque No. 7. Hotel Theresa. Remembering Harlem’s Muslim History. | The New York Times
Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem around 125th Street is now lined with artisanal French restaurants, wood-fired pizza joints and brunch places serving kale salad. A new Whole Foods supermarket shines…
Black Women’s Labor in America Has Always Been Exploited | Teen Vogue
The factoid you probably remember about women’s equal pay with respect to men’s is that women, on average, make about 80 cents to every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.…
Groundbreaking Night for Women and Diversity, While a Trump Critic Falls | The New York Times
HARTLAND, Wis. — Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota was soundly defeated Tuesday in his bid to reclaim the Republican nomination for governor, a remarkable upset that demonstrated President Trump’s…
On the House | Buying home for first time still exciting at age 75 | The Columbus Dispatch
On Tuesday, Joyce Mayne bought her first house, a birthday present to herself. Mayne’s birthday is today. She is 75. “I wondered if I was crazy, 75 years old and…
Aretha Franklin’s Revolution | The Atlantic
If the Great Migration could be condensed into a single personal narrative, it might be Aretha Franklin’s. Born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, to a traveling, womanizing preacher and a…
Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, is dead at 76 | Vox
Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit, the AP reports. While the details of her death have not yet been reported, Franklin…