Gretchen Reynolds/ | The New York Times “I don’t think any of them knew how to swim,” Ms. Williams said. “And they were afraid of the water and afraid for their kids.” Ms. Williams, 45, and her daughter are African-American, as were most of the other families at the swimming class. While Bailey, now almost […]
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The Fight In Claressa Shields
During the 2012 London Olympics, Claressa Shields stood in the ring, stone-faced and focused.
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A ‘Sex and the City’ for African Viewers
Let’s get this out of the way up front: “An African City,” the steamy Ghanaian web series about five young women looking for love in Accra, is an unabashed rip-off of “Sex and the City.”
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Grandparents or parents? Coverage of Simone Biles shows that we still don’t know how to talk about adoption
A commentator said Biles’s parents were “NOT her parents;” Twitter revealed that adoption is still cloaked in shame.
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Debate flares after black college students seek a non-white roommate
Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color.
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A Generation Is Protesting’ in Ethiopia, Long a U.S. Ally
Is Ethiopia about to crack? For the last decade, it has been one of Africa’s most stable nations, a solid Western ally with a fast-growing economy. But in recent months, antigovernment protests have convulsed the country, spreading into more and more areas.
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Afropreneurs: Ugandan Entrepreneur Sarah Nakintu Is Taking Her ‘African-Inspired’ Luxury Handbags Global
At 15-years-old, Sarah Nakintu would go hunting for weekend outfits among the open-air stalls of Owino, Kampala’s secondhand clothing market.
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‘The Get Down’ Tells the Story Behind the Birth of Hip-Hop
Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down is a fantastical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
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7 Traditional African Sports that Should Be in the Olympics
The Olympic Games may go back 3,000 years to Ancient Greece, but the international sporting event that takes place every four years didn’t take on its modern form until 1896.
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Separate But Unequal: ‘Pioneers of African-American Cinema’
Race films were produced especially for “colored only” or “Negro theatres” that catered to African-American neighborhoods during the era of legal segregation.
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