by October Gallery
Families like the Raineys, one of many working-class Black families living in North Philadelphia, are rarely the subject of nuanced or compassionate media coverage. “Quest: A Portrait of an American…
GREENSBORO, Ga. — This clearly was no ordinary public school. Parents of prospective students converged on Lake Oconee Academy for an open house on a bright but unseasonably cold March…
Bobby McFerrin is likely best known for his 1988 hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and has been entertaining audiences with his jazz scatting for nearly 50 years. His father, Robert…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church on Friday will celebrate the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on black people serving in the lay priesthood, going on missions…
The comedian Roseanne Barr resurrected one of the oldest and most profoundly racist slanders in American history when she referred to Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman who served as an…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Shoppe Black, Shoppe Black Have you ever sipped organic coffee in a beautifully designed environment while your clothes washed and dried in energy-efficient machines? No? Well, Celsious…
Monique Greenwood and her husband, Glenn Pogue, stayed in their first bed-and-breakfast in 1985. Six years later, while working as editor in chief of Essence magazine, Greenwood stumbled upon a…
A newly-released 2018 CityHealth report, which evaluates various policies that support and improve health and quality of life in 40 U.S. cities, awarded the nation’s capital a silver medal. More…
The first member of a group of black radicals known as the Move Nine who have been incarcerated, they insist unjustly, for almost 40 years for killing a Philadelphia police…
By Maria Anderson A visitor in the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit “Do Ho Suh: Almost Home” (Photo by Libby Weiler) Internationally renowned artist Do Ho Suh creates immersive fabric…