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Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Kenrya Rankin, Colorlines While #BlackGirlMagic is definitely a thing, Therese Patricia Okoumou’s brave July 4 immigration protest at the Statue of Liberty forced Black women to remind…
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Famed black abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass posed this question before a large, mostly white crowd in Rochester, New…
Jaki Shelton Green, an instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, was named the ninth poet laureate of the state of North Carolina.…
Some time ago, the writer Nikki Giovanni offered me guidance on writing about the life of a public person. Most of her advice I understood and dutifully jotted into a…
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…