“They were building community and spreading the wealth within the community and enhancing other Black people, and it was all stripped away,” the founder of the advocacy group Where Is My Land said. — BY, ALICIA VICTORIA LOZANO AND LINDSEY DAVIS LOS ANGELES — With the flick of a pen Thursday, California Gov. Gavin […]
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Virginia Sues Town of Windsor, Accusing It of Discriminatory Policing | The New York Times
The suit comes after a monthslong investigation, which Attorney General Mark Herring said uncovered a pattern of “discriminatory, unconstitutional policing.” — BY, JENNY GROSS Virginia’s attorney general filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the town of Windsor, seeking changes in policing and saying that his office’s monthslong investigation uncovered evidence of discriminatory, unconstitutional policing. […]
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Meet The Woman Behind Today’s Multimillion-Dollar Black Hair And Beauty Startups | Forbes
— BY, CHRISTINE MICHEL CARTER SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR In the past ten years, global category-leading manufacturers like Procter & Gamble and Unilever have seized the opportunity to create specific products that appeal to diverse consumers. These consumers spent $473 million in total hair care (a $4.2 billion industry). In addition, they made other significant investments […]
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New documentary unveils astounding accomplishments of little known civil rights activist, feminist, and ordained priest | The Observer
— BY, SANDRA VARNER FOR SACRAMENTO OBSERVER Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing Black transgender lawyer, professor, poet and priest whose struggle for justice and equality comes to life in “My Name Is Pauli Murray,” a newly released documentary. Murray knew intimately what it meant to live a life that was out of sync […]
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South Florida’s Only Historically Black University Is in Danger of Closing | Miami Times
— BY, ALEX DELUCA At the start of the fall semester, royal blue and bright orange signs that read “Welcome, new Lions!” decorate the 44-acre Florida Memorial University (FMU) campus in Miami Gardens. On this balmy, late-summer day, a handfulof backpack-toting students vie for the shade of the aging 1960s-era residence halls on the […]
View MoreAfter California moves to return Bruce’s Beach to Black family, a push to recover other seized land | NBC News
“They were building community and spreading the wealth within the community and enhancing other Black people, and it was all stripped away,” the founder of the advocacy group Where Is My Land said. — BY, ALICIA VICTORIA LOZANO AND LINDSEY DAVIS LOS ANGELES — With the flick of a pen Thursday, California Gov. Gavin […]
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Paintings by Hamid Nii Nortey of the middle class elite in Africa’s fastest-growing economy | Creative Boom
Emerging Ghanaian artist Hamid Nii Nortey has released 20 new figurative paintings of glamorous city scenes that reflect the changing urban and social landscape of Ghana’s capital, Accra. It’s a place that has seen huge transformation in recent decades, one that Nortey now hopes to shine a light on while dispelling any outdated narratives of Africa. […]
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Office of Historic Resources and Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles Announce Project to Identify and Protect African American Historic Places in City | Good Black News
Getty and the City of Los Angeles recently announced the Los Angeles African American Historic Places Project, which plans to identify, protect and celebrate African American heritage within the city. — STAFF, GOOD BLACK NEWS Despite comprehensive efforts over the years to record Los Angeles’ historic places, the city’s historic designation programs, by their own estimation, do not […]
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How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater | The New York Times
Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Antoinette Nwandu and Jordan E. Cooper, on influences, gatekeepers and helping “the young black theater nerd find work that looks like them.” — MICHAEL PAULSON & NICOLE HERRINGTON, THE NEW YORK TIMES They are the talk of the theater world: a generation of black playwrights whose fiercely political and formally […]
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Amy Sherald on Making Breonna Taylor’s Portrait | Vanity Fair
The artist, who painted Michelle Obama, took care to draw on details from Taylor’s life. — Miles Pope, Vanity Fair For more than 20 years, Amy Sherald has been putting the narratives of Black families and Black people to canvas. In 2016, she became the first woman and first African American to win the Outwin […]
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