Kyle Swenson, Washington Post [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the middle of the hothouse atmosphere of the 1968 U.S. presidential election — racial strife splitting cities, antiwar protests on college campuses, segregationist George Wallace growling up out of the South — Dick Gregory barnstormed the country, pitching audiences his acid mix of jokes and politics. The African American comic […]
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Illinois Governor Signs Bill Raising Teacher Minimum Pay To $40,000 | HuffPost
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the new law, which aims to reach the $40,000 salary minimum by 2023-24, will help address the teacher shortage.
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Museums in France Should Return African Treasures, Report Says | The New York Times
PARIS — The sprawling Quai Branly Museum in Paris is stuffed with treasure. It has some 70,000 objects from sub-Saharan Africa in its collection, including magnificent statues from present-day Benin and delicate paintings that once decorated church walls in Ethiopia. But a long-awaited report coming out this week could have a dramatic impact on what […]
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Never Forget: 69 Black Boys Were Padlocked Into A Dormitory Where A Mysterious Fired Started – 21 Burned To Death | Black Main Street
For the last 5 decades, every year has been 1959 for Frank Lawrence. For the majority of his life, Lawrence has been trying to solve one of Arkansas’ greatest mysteries. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “No one ever knew it existed because the ability of the state of Arkansas to do such a fantastic job to cover it […]
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25 Black Owned Yoga Studios #NAMASTE | Shoppe Black
Regular yoga practice has been shown to have tremendous physical, mental and spiritual health benefits. We’ve compiled a list of Black Owned Yoga Studios for you to support. Let us know which others we should know about! [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Black Owned Yoga Studios Embraced Yoga (Washington D.C.) Shoppe Black Staff, Shoppe Black Full article @ […]
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Thirty years later, Yusuf Hawkins’ murder still shocks in a changed Brooklyn | The City
Clifford Michel, The City, The City A memorial for Yusuf Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Aug. 22, 2019. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY. Featured Image [dropcap]Until[/dropcap] this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the African-American 16-year-old who was set upon by a mob of […]
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How an accidental encounter brought slavery to the United States | USA Today
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, USA Today SOURCE slavevoyages.org. Featured Image [dropcap]F[/dropcap]our hundred years ago this summer, a few weeks and 35 miles apart, two epochal events occurred. One was the inaugural meeting of the General Assembly of the Virginia colony – the first elective representative body of its kind in North America. The other was […]
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Four Black Men Were Freed From Death Row. Republicans Put Them Back. | The New York Times
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear a case next week that’s a matter of life or death for some inmates.
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The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia | USA Today
HAMPTON, Va. – As Walter Jones walks his family’s ancient cemetery, shovel in hand, he wonders about those who rest there. The gravestones date back as far as the 1800s. Some bear the names of folks Walter knew; some have faded to illegibility; some are in pieces. And, under the brush he’s cleared away and […]
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A Sensitive Portrait of Working-Class African Americans, By an Italian Who Fears and Loves the South | IndieWire
Italian-born, Texas–based filmmaker Roberto Minervini reflects on being an outsider with “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”
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