THE NEW SEASON OF “ART21: Art in the 21st Century” debuts Sept. 16, 2016. For the first time, the PBS series is focusing on the connection to place and the ways an artist’s practice is influenced and driven by where they live and work.
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‘I’m Just Not Ready to Forgive:’ One Family Member Reflects on Charleston Massacre a Year Later
One year ago today, nine worshipers were callously executed during an evening Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Detroit Not Interested In Rebranding
A group of young leaders in the city of Detroit agreed at the Michigan Chronicle’s “Pancakes and Politics” speaker’s forum at the Detroit Athletic Club that the city does not need rebranding.
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Increasing Black Wealth Takes Generational Sacrifice — It Always Has
Since slavery, African Americans have made sacrifices so that their children and grandchildren could do better, but we need not lose this way of thinking today.
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Working to Avoid Foreclosure: City of Detroit to hold Property Tax Assistance Fair
The City of Detroit, in an effort to ease some homeowners’ property tax burden and prevent the threat of foreclosure, will host a Property Tax Assistance Fair.
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‘The African Company’ Puts American Inclusiveness To The Test
In the 1821 curtain speech that opens Carlyle Brown’s “The African Company Presents Richard III,” 19th-century American impresario Stephen Price (David Daniel) urges his audience to look upon a stage where “anything is possible.”
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Cornel West: Black America’s Neo-Liberal Sleepwalking Is Coming To An End
In this exclusive, Cornel West talks Bernie Sanders’ Neo-Populism, Donald Trump’s Neo-Fascism – and sweeping away the myopic careerism and chronic narcissism that prevented any serious critique of Obama’s Neo-Liberalism.
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The List of 358 Obama Accomplishments So Far, With Citations – Progressive Coast to Coast
In 2008, we elected the most progressive president in history. And regardless of the negativity, when you actually look at the record, there has been a lot of progress since January 20, 2009.
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A History Of African-American Gun Advocacy – And Why It’s Never Talked About
[two_third padding=”0 15px 0 0px”]A History Of African-American Gun Advocacy – And Why It’s Never Talked About Book Traces The Often-Untold Story Of Black Americans’ Relationship With Firearms.JOHN MERFELD | JUNE 2016 | WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO [mashshare][/two_third][one_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 15px”] “… a struggle for survival, where guns were vital… ” [/one_third_last][two_third padding=”0 15px 0 0px”][dropcap]When[/dropcap] the U.S. Department of […]
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A 102-Year-Old Harlem Renaissance Dancer Sees Her Young Self On Film For The First Time
It has been decades since Alice Barker last danced on a stage. But after the 102-year-old finally saw video footage of her glory days performing in dance clubs in the 1930s and 1940s, she wanted to get out of her bed to do it all over again.
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