Leyla Fern King receives Gold Key recognition for ‘To Mama’ | The St. Louis American

The St. Louis American Staff, The St. Louis American [dropcap]Leyla[/dropcap] Fern King received the highest Gold Key recognition for her poem “To Mama” in the 2019 Missouri Writing Region of the Scholastic Writing Awards Contest and now advances to national competition. She is a sophomore at John Burroughs School where she serves as sophomore justice […]

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Black History Month: a Reading List | OUPBlog

Eleanor Robson & Mara Sandroff, OUPBlog [dropcap]February[/dropcap] marks the celebration of Black History Month in the United States and Canada, an annual celebration of achievements by Black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in US history. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The first variation of Black History Month was initiated by Dr. […]

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Episode 343: A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing Author DaMaris B. Hill | iHeart.com

Staff, iHeart.com [dropcap]Author[/dropcap] and poet DaMaris B. Hill talks to Daniel Ford about her new collection A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland. To learn more about DaMaris B. Hill, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, and follow her on Twitter […]

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Revisiting the Legacy of Howard Thurman, the Mystic of the Civil Rights Movement | Religion & Politics

Gene Zubovich, Religion & Politics Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg Gallery. Featured Image [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n February, local PBS stations will premiere an hour-long documentary about a theological giant of the twentieth century, Howard Thurman (1899-1981). Famous among activists for his influence on the civil rights […]

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22 Black Owned Luxury Brands To Support Instead of GUCCI and Prada | Shoppe Black

Shoppe Black, Shoppe Black Undra Celeste. Featured Images Courtesy of Shoppe Black [dropcap]Gucci[/dropcap] issued an apology for the offense caused by their “blackface sweater”. I don’t accept. In fact, at this point, I’m convinced that these “mistakes” are part of these folks’ marketing strategy. They can’t be that clueless. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Tsemaye Binite Ozwald Boateng […]

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Nehanda Abiodun, 68, Black Revolutionary Who Fled to Cuba, Dies | New York Times

Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times Nehanda Abiodun in 2015. Ms. Abiodun had been living in Cuba to elude arrest on charges that linked her to violence committed by radicals in the 1970s and ’80s. Credit Noah Friedman-Rudovsky. Featured Image [dropcap]Nehanda[/dropcap] Abiodun, a radical black nationalist who was charged in the deadly botched robbery of […]

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Living Near Your Grandmother Has Evolutionary Benefits | NPR

Killer whales, Japanese aphids and Homo sapiens — they’re among the few organisms whose females live on long past the age of reproduction. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Since the name of the evolutionary game is survival and reproduction, the phenomenon begs explanation — why live longer than you can reproduce? In the 1960s, researchers came up with […]

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Stream the “Complete” John Coltrane Playlist: A 94-Hour Journey Through 700+ Transformative Tracks | Open Culture

Josh Jones, Open Culture [dropcap]In[/dropcap] a contrarian take on the legacy of John Coltrane on the 50th anniversary of his death last year, Zack Graham at GQ did not recommend Giant Steps nor A Love Supreme nor Blue Train nor My Favorite Things as the most important album in the artist’s career, but a record […]

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