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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six | Black Perspectives

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

Denise Lynn, Black Perspectives Trenton Six, 1949, (Charles White via Museum of Modern Art). Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central Park Five, a legal case that for many of us unfolded in living memory. The attention the docuseries […]

25 Black Women Launches To Celebrate Black Women In The Beauty Business | Essence

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs ...

A dinner was held to launch the collective, which works to celebrate and elevate Black women in the beauty industry.

Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant | The New York Times

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

Farah Stockman, The New York Times [dropcap]Prosecutors[/dropcap] in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a manslaughter charge against a woman over the death of the fetus she was carrying when she was shot in the belly, in a case that stirred national outrage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Likewise, Negro Spirituals and the black gospel tradition […]

Lead Belly | Folkways Recordings

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019African American Entertainment, African American Music ...

Folkways Recordings, Folkways Recordings [dropcap]Lead[/dropcap] Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949). From the swamplands of Louisiana, the prisons of Texas, and the streets of New York City, Lead Belly and his music became cornerstones […]

Little Known Black History Fact: National Black Network | Black America Web

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019African American Entertainment, African American News ...

D.L. Chandler, Black America Web The U.S. National Archives. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] National Black Network became the first coast-to-coast radio network fully owned by Black Americans on July 2, 1973. The NBN was the brainchild of white media executive Robert Pauley, who eventually handed over the idea to a trio of Black executives. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]

Segregated By Design: An Animated Look at How African-American Enclaves in U.S. Cities Is Hardly an Accident | Aeon

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Black ghettos are no accident – how state-sponsored racism shaped US cities

Sankofa bookstore on track for tax relief as it fights to stay alive | WUSA9

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs ...

Sankofa bookstore near Howard University has been a cultural hub through decades of DC history — now it’s struggling to survive the rising tide of property values.