Tracing Your Roots: A reader seeks to connect the dots between her recent ancestors and a well-documented family who sued for their freedom.
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This Chicago Artist’s Photo Series of Haute Coiffure Is on View at Brooklyn’s MoCADA
If you find yourself in the NYC area, then there’s still time left to view Chicago-based artist Shani Crowe’s exquisite photo series BRAIDS currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art (MoCADA) Museum until July 10.
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When Black Power Set Racist America On Fire: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
Fifty years ago, the term “Black power” fired into the American vocabulary. In celebration of the fifty-year anniversary of the call for Black power this week, I present this exclusive excerpt from my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
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‘Mississippi Burning’ Civil Rights Case Closed After 52 Years
Attorney general says investigation into killings of three civil rights workers is over and no more prosecutions are expected.
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Banneker-Douglass Exhibit Highlights African-American Love Stories
Banneker-Douglass museum’s newest exhibit highlights nine African American love stories in Annapolis.
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How Social Activism is Evolving in African-American Churches
Marla Frederick once wanted to be a lawyer. But in college, she fell in love with discussing religion, reveling in opportunities to debate with her closest friends about how Christianity applied to their lives and whether Islam was the true religion.
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A Sculptor of Black Heroes Leaves a Legacy
Because the artist Inge Hardison created towering statues and small busts of schoolchildren, families and heroes like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she was often described as the lady who builds giants.
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New Season of ART21 Features African American Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cave, Stan Douglas, and Theaster Gates
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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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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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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