Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collection of the Medical Research Library at SUNY Downstate Center, Kountz History Collection. Featured Image About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these […]
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How To Spend 3 Days In Black-Owned New Orleans | Travel Noire
Stephanie Ogbogu, Travel Noire Women working at sewing machines in factory. Pic credit: Sleek Garments Export Ltd. Featured Image [dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou’re almost there! You’ve taken the first step—deciding to take a trip to New Orleans and experience its colorful cultural ambiance, excellent restaurants, and nowhere-else-but-here traditions that make New Orleans one of the most popular tourist […]
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Overlooked | The New York Times
These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now. We’re adding their stories to our project about prominent people whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper.
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A New Wave of Black Women Playwrights Is Reinventing the Genre | Zora
Their work is, quite literally, changing the face of American theater
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Meet Blanche Dunn, the Jamaican socialite who ruled New York in the 1920s | Face2face Africa
By Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, Face2Face Africa The African American arts and culture took a huge leap during the Harlem Renaissance when African American creatives of all kinds came together in Harlem, New York, to work at the progress of their craft and see to it that their works were being consumed by all and not just […]
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Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate” | Slate
A new book explores the false—yet oddly ubiquitous—belief that black men fought for the South during the Civil War.
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At Home With Forbes + Masters | Essence
THIS ATLANTA-BASED INTERIOR DESIGN DUO HAVE EARNED THEIR SEAT AT THE TABLE
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Dred Scott Decision: The Case and Its Impact | ThoughtCo.
By Robert Longley, ThoughtCo. Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, declared that black people, whether free or slave, could not be American citizens and were thus constitutionally unable to sue for citizenship in the federal courts. The Court’s majority opinion also declared that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was […]
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Alabama man who served 36 years of a life sentence for stealing $50 to be freed | The Guardian
Alvin Kennard was imprisoned in 1983 with a disproportionately harsh sentence under the ‘three strikes law’
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‘Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master’ | GOOD.IS
Anderson’s letter showed compassion, defiance, and dignity.
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