The quarters are slated to start circulating in January 2022. — BY, BRANDEE SANDERS Late literary giant Dr. Maya Angelou’s impact will echo for generations to come and the St. Louis native’s legacy will be honored by the U.S. Mint. According to CBS News, Angelou will make history as one of the first women to have […]
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Listening to the Joy in James Baldwin’s Record Collection | Hyperallergic
Curator Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi hopes to rouse a new generation of writers with “Chez Baldwin,” a 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on Baldwin’s vinyl record collection. — Valentina Di Liscia, Hyperallergic In the early 1950s, James Baldwin moved to a Swiss village in the Alps with two Bessie Smith records and a typewriter under his arm. […]
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21-Year-Old Breonna Taylor Protest Leader Hazma ‘Travis’ Nagdy Killed In Fatal Shooting | NewsOne
Community members are reeling over the death of a promising young activist whose life was cut short on Monday during a shooting. — Charise Frazier, NewsOne Hazma “Travis” Nagdy was a 21-year-old protester from Louisville, Kentucky who experienced a recall for life in the face of Breonna Taylor‘s senseless tragedy. Friends say one of Nagdy’s […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates isn’t ready to celebrate America just yet | The Washington Post
— HELENA ANDREWS-DYER, THE WASHINGTON POST Ta-Nehisi Coates is on his way back from somewhere quiet, somewhere peaceful. A place that is decidedly not New York City, currently hung over from President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Where Coates’s getaway is exactly, the writer doesn’t want to say, but he laughs as he declines to give away […]
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How Georgia’s Senate run-offs could finally hand Stacey Abrams her victory | The Guardian
Two years ago, she lost to then-secretary of state Brian Kemp, but that loss spurred her to fight for Georgians’ right to vote — ANKITA RAO, OLIVER LAUGHLAND and SAM LEVINE, THE GUARDIAN Two years ago, Stacey Abrams became a household name when she ran for governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp, then secretary of state. Though […]
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From Harriet Tubman to Diane Nash: Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement | Associated Press
“I have been increasingly perturbed over the blatant disparity between the major role which Negro women have played and are playing in the crucial grass-roots levels of our struggle and the minor role of leadership they have been assigned in the national policy-making decisions… The time has come to say to you quite candidly, Mr. […]
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Nashville renames prominent city street ‘Rep. John Lewis Way’ after late civil rights icon | NBC News
Before winning a seat in Congress, he made “good trouble” as a college student in Music City. — DAVID K. LI, NBC NEWS Lawmakers in Nashville, Tennessee, agreed Thursday to rename a prominent city street after late Congressman John Lewis, whose decades of civil rights activism began in Music City. On a voice vote, the Metropolitan Council […]
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A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes | The New York Times
In 1860, the Wide Awakes mobilized against slavery and for Abraham Lincoln. A new collective is tapping into their spirit today. — Matt Dellinger, The New York Times In January, the artist Hank Willis Thomas began enigmatically summoning designers, musicians and activists he knew to his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was working […]
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Angela Russell to host “Black Oxygen” panel at Wisconsin Leadership Summit | Madison 365
— Madison365 Staff, Madison 365 Angela Russell, the host of the Madison365 podcast Black Oxygen, will moderate a panel of Black leaders from across the state at the Wisconsin Leadership Summit, to check in and discuss what it means to be Black in Wisconsin and how Black folks can find space to breathe. As we announced […]
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Nicole Cardoza Isn’t Writing Her Anti-Racism Newsletter For White People | Elle
By Madison Feller, Elle Nicole Cardoza had big plans for 2020. She just wrote a children’s book and was working on an outline for another story; she had made it her personal dedication to write more this year. But what she couldn’t have anticipated is that this summer would be the start of her most […]
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