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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

Octavia Spencer To Produce New Film About First Black Woman To File And Win Her Freedom Suit | MadameNoire

April 10, 2018African American Cinema, African American Entertainment ...

Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer has been linked to a new project and we’re particularly excited about it. According to Variety, Spencer has signed on to executive produce an independent movie about Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman.

The Report on Race That Shook America | The Atlantic

April 10, 2018African American Education, African American Employment ...

It came out in 1968—yet little has changed since the Kerner Commission denounced “white racism.”

Harry Belafonte: To realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, white America needs to change course | PBS

April 9, 2018January 17, 2022African American History, African American Intellectual ...

And I was just absolutely struck with the way in which he presented his case to the black community, condemning them for being not more engaged in the social destiny of black people.

A Portrait of Black Life in Florida, One Neighborhood at a Time | Hyperallergic

April 6, 2018African American Commuities, African American Lives ...

“The histories of Black communities in the United States have been undervalued, suppressed, erased throughout time.”

A New Black American Dream | The New York Times

April 2, 2018African American Economics, African American Education ...

African-American parents can’t stop demanding equality, but perhaps we need to start dreaming of a different kind of success.

Black Love Experience Promises a Passport to Wakanda in Southeast | AFRO

March 23, 2018African American Art, African American Commuities ...

In a small corner of Anacostia where the vestiges of D.C.’s Chocolate City remain, lovers of everything black, beautiful and wondrous gathered to dance, mingle and heal.