She might be an up-and-coming soul singer, but US poet and activist Jamila Woods is a team player. Her second album is also a showcase for other people’s work. Each song on this engaged but accessible record memorialises a figure from the African diaspora – often lesser-known poets, or figures like Miles and Basquiat. […]
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Winning Artists Announced for Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First US Black Congresswoman | Hyperallergic
Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have won the inaugural She Built NYC commission with their dynamic proposal, “Our Destiny, Our Democracy.”
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Journalists cautiously celebrate press freedom in Ethiopia | Al Jazeera
As journalists welcome efforts to support press freedom in Ethiopia, draft law against hate speech causes concerns.
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We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records. | USA Today
USA TODAY is leading a national effort to obtain and publish disciplinary and misconduct records for thousands of police officers.
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7 High-End Black Designers To Purchase Your Next Luxury Item From | Essence
You’ll easily dismiss Gucci and Prada, thanks to the style and leaders of these brands.
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Employers have no business policing black people’s natural hairstyles | Los Angeles Times
THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, Los Angeles Times [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] people have a fraught and painful history with hair. In particular, black women with textured, tightly curled or kinky hair have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money torturing it into straightness with chemicals and flat irons to fit a white standard of beauty that magazines have […]
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Gentrification is erasing black cemeteries and, with it, black history | The Guardian
Local activists are fighting to save Boyd Carter cemetery, a historic black burial ground in West Virginia in the path of a pipeline.
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How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater | The New York Times
Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Antoinette Nwandu and Jordan E. Cooper, on influences, gatekeepers and helping “the young black theater nerd find work that looks like them.”
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Child Poverty Collaborative almost lost its last African American co-chair | WCPO
‘Black people have to have power and influence’
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Adrienne Jones elected Maryland’s first African-American, female House speaker | CNN
Veronica Stracqualursi, CNNAmber Ferguson/The Washington Post, Featured Image [dropcap]Washington[/dropcap] (CNN) A Maryland lawmaker made history on Wednesday when she became the first woman and first African-American elected as the state’s House speaker. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Del. Adrienne Jones was unanimously voted as speaker after the two Democratic candidates who were vying for the job stepped aside […]
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