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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star

June 7, 2018African American Education, African American News ...

“What happened to these individuals, these students and the faculty, in my mind, is a crime.”

As Obama Presidential Center comes closer to reality, tensions on race, class surface | Chicago Tribune

June 7, 2018African American Commuities, African American History ...

The Obama Foundation’s plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park have sparked a complicated, and at times emotional, conversation about race, class, segregation, privilege and power on the South Side.

The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement | The Atlantic

June 6, 2018July 20, 2018African American Commuities, African American Education ...

Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.

A Civil-Rights Icon Urges Law Grads to Defend Free Speech | The Atlantic

June 6, 2018African American News, KINDR'D ...

Eleanor Holmes Norton used a commencement address at Georgetown to argue that securing positive, lasting change in America requires letting all sides have their say.

After years of domestic violence, a gun changed everything | The Philadelphia Tribune

June 6, 2018African American Families, African American Women ...

After one beating, Norris Jones went to her father’s house and shared what she was going through. “He looked at me and said, ‘What did you think marriage was?’”

Shuri Is an Official Disney Princess Confirms Black Panther Star | MovieWeb

June 6, 2018African American Entertainment, KINDR'D ...

“…I grew up on Disney movies and grew up with the Disney Princesses and they didn’t really look like me. But now, you can go buy action figures and say this is a Disney Princess… right on!”

‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking | The New York Times

June 5, 2018African American Entertainment, African American Theater ...

“Carmen Jones” brought European opera into a populist environment, and, like “Porgy and Bess” and “Cabin in the Sky,” provided opportunity for its all-black cast.