For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. | The New York Times Magazine

I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and […]

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Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. | The New York Times Magazine

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ARTWORK BY ADAM PENDLETON. Featured Image [dropcap]My[/dropcap] dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that […]

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3-year-old uses lemonade stand profits to buy diapers for babies in need | KMOV4

Associated Press, KMOV4 Photos: Ava’s Lemonade, Durham Rescue Mission via Facebook. Featured Image [dropcap]DURHAM[/dropcap], N.C. (AP) — A 3-year-old North Carolina girl and her mother have come up with a sweet way to help struggling mothers provide for their children. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Ava Lewis opened a lemonade stand in front of her mother’s hair salon, […]

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Zimbabwean Becomes First Black Miss London | The Punch Newspaper

The Punch Newspaper Staff, Vogue Photo: Danny Kasirye ; Makeup Artist: T’rae Turner, Stylist: Lasharna Turner. Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap] Zimbabwean, Vimbai Chapungu, has been crowned Miss London 2019, making her the first black person to hold the title and also a finalist for this year’s Miss England beauty pageant. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] According to Zimbabwean Mail, […]

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