The comic, developed by the writer Kwanza Osajyefo and the designer Tim Smith 3 after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, was designed to tell a story that reflected their lives and helped fill a void, they said.
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Misty Copeland Becomes a Face of Estée Lauder, and Ballet Takes Note | The New York Times
Supermodels and actresses have generally been the ones to land high-profile, lucrative modeling contracts to promote major cosmetics companies. Enter the ballerina.
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Black America: Amazon alt-history series to depict a post-reparations US | The Guardian
In contrast to HBO’s controversial Confederate, this drama will imagine a timeline in which black Americans inhabit a sovereign country.
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Review: In ‘Detroit,’ Black Lives Caught in a Prehistory of the Alt-Right | The New York Times
Racial slurs fly fast and furious in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit,” but the most troubling and divisive words uttered onscreen are variations on the simple pronouns “they” and “them.”
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More Black Women Are Killed In U.S. Than Any Other Race, Says CDC | Black America Web
New report found that more than half of those homicides are due to domestic violence.
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The land of Haile Selassie is finally recognizing its Rastafarian community | Quartz
Ethiopia’s government has announced it will issue identity cards to members of the Rastafarian community, a religious group that has long been seen as stateless in the horn of Africa nation.
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Shame on You Jeff Bezos! Amazon Data Center Threatens a Century-Old Black Va. Neighborhood | The Root
More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that behemoth company Amazon, via its lackey Dominion Virginia, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African-American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery.
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HBO doc ‘Baltimore Rising’ explores life after Freddie Gray | The Washington Post
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The producers and participants in “Baltimore Rising” say national and local media sensationalized the protests that erupted after the death of Freddie Gray, but that their new documentary humanizes the narrative.
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Zelda Wynn Valdes – One of the Most Influential African-American Fashion Designers | Black Then
She was one of the founding members of the National Association of Fashion Accessory Designers, an organization intended to promote Black designers.
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Bert Long, Jr. Gallery: Artist Talk w/Romeo Clay Robinson | Houston Museum of African American Culture
Romeo Clay Robinson loves people! He finds their condition, feelings, thoughts, dreams, and aspirations interesting, consequential and holding extreme value.
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