Manseen Logan, Blavity Image Courtesy of Blavity. Featured Image [dropcap]E[/dropcap]very third Sunday in September, a grand parade celebrating everything that is good and Black takes over the Harlem, New York City streets. It’s a pretty big deal. In fact, The African American Day Parade (AADP) has been a big deal, since its debut in 1969 […]
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Locked out of L.A.’s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homeless | Los Angeles Times
By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked out of other neighborhoods by racial covenants. His stepfather worked at Lockheed Martin to support the family […]
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Color and Incarceration | Harvard Magazine
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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3-year-old uses lemonade stand profits to buy diapers for babies in need | KMOV4
Associated Press, KMOV4 Photos: Ava’s Lemonade, Durham Rescue Mission via Facebook. Featured Image [dropcap]DURHAM[/dropcap], N.C. (AP) — A 3-year-old North Carolina girl and her mother have come up with a sweet way to help struggling mothers provide for their children. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Ava Lewis opened a lemonade stand in front of her mother’s hair salon, […]
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Backpacks honoring slain Baton Rouge activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph will be donated to 200 students | The Advocate
Staff, The Advocate This still image taken from WVLA/WGMB file video shows Sadie Roberts-Joseph. Featured Image [dropcap]East[/dropcap] Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and the Professional Athletes Supporting Students organization will donate 200 backpacks to students in memory of slain civil rights activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The body of Roberts-Joseph, 75, a longtime community leader, […]
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‘A godsend’: Sorority donates 17,000 meals for disaster relief after ending New Orleans convention early | The Washington Post
Morgan Krakow, The Washington Post Latiya White, left, Gina Murray and Gina Holmes, members of Delta Sigma Theta from Atlantic City, N.J., stand in the French Quarter, which was nearly empty as the city braced for Tropical Storm Barry on Saturday in New Orleans, where the sorority was holding its national convention. (Scott Olson/Getty Images). […]
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White Man Followed a Black Teen Into a Store and Cut His Throat Because His Rap Music Made Him Feel “Unsafe” | Slate
Elliot Hannon, Slate Source: Family of Elijah Al-Amin. Featured Image [dropcap]It[/dropcap] was in the early hours of the morning on Thursday when police say 27-year-old Michael Adams
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Harlem’s oldest resident is also America’s oldest — Alelia Murphy feted on her 114th birthday | New York Daily News
Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News Alelia Murphy celebrates her 114th birthday at the Harlem State Office Building in Manhattan on Friday. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News). Featured Image [dropcap]At[/dropcap] age 114, Alelia Murphy has living yet to do. Wearing a tiara, yellow suit and a smile, Murphy celebrated her birthday in Harlem on […]
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Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant | The New York Times
Farah Stockman, The New York Times [dropcap]Prosecutors[/dropcap] in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a manslaughter charge against a woman over the death of the fetus she was carrying when she was shot in the belly, in a case that stirred national outrage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Likewise, Negro Spirituals and the black gospel tradition […]
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2nd gang member sentenced for firebombings in Boyle Heights that targeted black families | Los Angeles Times
Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times Gilles Mingasson/Getty. Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap] second gang member has been sentenced to prison for his role in the 2014 firebombings of black residents at a Boyle Heights housing project. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Edwin “Boogie” Felix, 27, is one of eight gang members of the Big Hazard street gang who prosecutors say […]
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