EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival is hosting the world premiere of the first feature-length documentary on playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who penned the iconic A Raisin In The Sun.
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Sammy Davis Jr. Embodied the Difficulties Black Entertainers Face Today | Vice
A new documentary explores the late and legendary entertainer’s complicated legacy.
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How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America | The Washington Post
“Consumers of these racist ideas… have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”
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Ethel Mae Matthews and the Emmaus House in Atlanta | Black Perspectives
Fifty years ago, Emmaus House opened its doors for the first time. Located in Peoplestown, a deprived neighborhood southeast of downtown Atlanta, Emmaus House is a community advocacy and support center.
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‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ | The New York Times Magazine
They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?
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Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her | The Washington Post
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” – Harriet Tubman
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Was Lead Belly a protest singer? A conversation with NMAAHC director Lonnie Bunch III | Folkways
Lead Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949).
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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim | Black Perspectives
It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August 9, 1996 at the age of 36.
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This Civil Rights Activist Is the Reason I’ve Been Vegan for 30 Years | Bon Appetit
Dick Gregory, who passed away in August, spent his career advocating for the state—and the plate—of Black America
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The ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian
A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
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