Black-Owned Startup Combines Greeting Cards With Technology and Automation | Black News.com

Photographs by Marti Corn; Text by Mark Murrmann , Black News.com [dropcap]Atlanta[/dropcap]— “How many times have you found yourself in this scenario: It’s a friend’s or relative’s birthday and you’re driving to the store at the last minute to buy a card. You also must go get stamps. “I’ve been there more times than I […]

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Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full” | The AV Club

Danette Chavez , The AV Club Stephan James Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times. Featured Image [dropcap]For[/dropcap] Stephan James, 2018 was all about getting home, whether he was playing a star-crossed lover in Barry Jenkins’ singular romance, If Beale Street Could Talk, or a starry-eyed soldier trying to reintegrate himself into society in […]

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Anthony Browder Makes History as the First African American to Lead and Fund an Archeological Excavation Project in Egypt | Los Angeles Sentinel

Sentinel News Service , Los Angeles Sentinel [dropcap]Washington[/dropcap] DC’s own, Anthony “Tony” Browder makes history as the first African American to lead and fund an archeological excavation project in Egypt. In May 2018, Mr. Browder, his daughter Atlantis Tye Browder, and the ASA Restoration Project excavation team discovered 2700-year-old Kushite artifacts that were recently installed […]

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26-Year-Old Photographer Nadine Ijewere On Her Historic Vogue Cover | Vogue

Hayley Maitland , Vogue [dropcap]When[/dropcap] Nadine Ijewere photographed Dua Lipa, Binx Walton, and Letitia Wright on the Kentish coast for this issue’s cover story, she became the first woman of colour to shoot the cover of any Vogue in the magazine’s 125-year global history. Here, the one-to-watch shares the details of her remarkable career to […]

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Latent Prejudice Stirs When a Black Man Tries to Join a Charleston Club | The New York Times

Richard Fausset , The New York Times Dr. W. Melvin Brown III at his home in Charleston, S.C. At the encouragement of white friends in the Charleston Rifle Club, he applied for membership, but was rejected.CreditCreditHunter McRae for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]CHARLESTON[/dropcap], S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in […]

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Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance | The New York Times

Hilarie M. Sheets , The New York Times Monique and Ronald Ollie in front of Ed Clark’s “Untitled” (1975).CreditCreditSam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]Ronald[/dropcap] Ollie was an engineering student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the early 1970s, he would take […]

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