Jon Seidel, Chicago Sun-Times Although he could boast an impressive passport, Johnson’s enduring entrepreneurial spirit meant he favored no other destination as much as that of Johnson Publishing Company headquarters in Chicago., Featured Image [dropcap]Chicago’s[/dropcap] historic Johnson Publishing Company has filed for bankruptcy, court records show. The Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition was filed late Tuesday […]
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A ‘Native Son’ Reimagined, With James Baldwin in Mind | The New York Times
Salamishah Tillet, The New York Times The playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, left, and the visual artist Rashid Johnson collaborated on the latest film adaptation of Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” setting it in present-day Chicago. Credit Gioncarlo Valentine for The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] its earliest conception, Richard Wright’s best-seller “Native Son” was envisioned for […]
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‘The Undefeated’ highlights the heroes of African American history | The Undefeated
A new children’s book by acclaimed poet Kwame Alexander and illustrator Kadir Nelson got a warm welcome in Washington, D.C.
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This Family Just Opened the Only Black-Owned Movie Theater in Baltimore! | Because of Them We Can
BOTWC Staff, Because of Them We Can [dropcap]There’s[/dropcap] a new Black-owned movie theater right outside of Baltimore, Maryland! NextAct Cinema officially opened for business on March 7th of this year. According to the website: [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “NextAct Cinemas, is an independent boutique theater that offers a unique, personalized movie going experience for our customers. You […]
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Thando Hopa makes history as she graces Vogue cover | MSN Lifestyle
Entertainment Reporter, MSN Lifestyle © Provided by Independent Media Thando Hopa. Picture: Instagram, Featured Image [dropcap]Thando[/dropcap] Hopa is flying the South African flag higher as she graces the April cover of Vogue Portugal. The international model, lawyer and activist makes history as she becomes the woman with albinism to grace the cover of Vogue. [mc4wp_form […]
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From Dumbo’s crows to The Song of the South: the Disney characters too racist to return | The Telegraph UK
Tim Robey, The Telegraph UK A scene from the original Dumbo (1941) CREDIT: ALAMY. Featured Image [dropcap]Tim[/dropcap] Burton’s Dumbo – which opened on Friday to decidedly mixed reviews – is nearly twice as long as Disney’s 1941 classic, but there’s one set of characters you won’t find reproduced even for a nanosecond of screen time: […]
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Rwanda honors those killed in genocide 25 years ago | Reuters
Clement Uwiringiyimana, Reuters Family photographs of some of those who died are displayed in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial on Friday. Ben Curtis/AP, Featured Image [dropcap]KIGALI[/dropcap] (Reuters) – Rwanda began a week of solemn ceremonies on Sunday to commemorate the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during the Rwandan genocide, a […]
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Los Angeles Gangs Reportedly Host Largest Peace Rally Since L.A Riots in Honor of Nipsey Hussle | The Root
Aliya Semper Ewing, The Wall Street Journal Instagram (BigU1), Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] the wake of the tragic loss of Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom, Rival Los Angeles gangs from Watts, Compton, Inglewood, and Los Angeles met Thursday and Friday afternoon to honor the slain rapper with a call for peace in the streets. Together they marched […]
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Akala: “I don’t enjoy explaining that black people are human beings” | New Statesman America
Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman America [dropcap]In[/dropcap] late 2017, the rapper and political thinker Akala was driving in London, on his way to a meeting, when a police car pulled him over. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “Gang members drive cars like this,” the suspicious officer claimed, before an embarrassed colleague took him aside. She’d recognised Akala, whose activism, […]
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Entrepreneur Prioritizes Supporting Black Women in Madison | AFRO
Lisa Speckhard Pasque, The Capital Times, AFRO Sabrina Madison, founder, at the Progress Center for Black Women in Fitchburg, Wis. — photos by Michelle Stocker/The Capital Times via AP, Featured Image [dropcap]MADISON[/dropcap], Wis. (AP) — It’s a Wednesday afternoon at Ford’s Gym, a “Rocky”-style gym filled with “regular old-school dudes,” Sabrina Madison says. That’s why […]
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