DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin’s hometown of Detroit has named a street after her.
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Bud Billiken Parade Saturday to be bigger, better than ever (1975) – Chicago Tribune
Tho most children today do not know who Bud Bliliken is or who he is supposed to represent, Billiken lives on each year in the parade of bands and floats that wind along Martin Luther King Drive.
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These 7 African Trailblazers Will Be Speaking at TEDGlobal 2017 in Tanzania – OkayAfrica
TANZANIA—Last month we were excited to share the 10 African innovators among the new class of TED Fellows in anticipation of the TEDGlobal Conference 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania this August.
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Kerry James Marshall addresses the absence of blackness – San Diego Reader
We’re the violators of their culture of leisure.
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Macy Gray talks racism in America and her biggest problem with Trump – New York Amsterdam News
LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Macy Gray is known for her edgy, enigmatic voice and her soulful music about love and life, but in her 10th studio release, which will be out this summer, the Grammy-winning singer is getting political in a way she hasn’t before.
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Google, Bryan Stevenson Launch Website Uncovering History of Lynchings in America – Atlanta Black Star
Before police shootings and mass incarceration beset Black America, the grotesque specter of brutalized Black bodies terrorized communities throughout the South, which struggled to deal with the problem of lynching.
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Luther’ returning to BBC America – New York Amsterdam News
(CNN) — BBC America is bringing Idris Elba back in “Luther.”
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Black People Support Vouchers, Black Leaders Don’t. Who’s Right? – The Root
At times, black people, like any group battered and oppressed by the state, may celebrate any perception of forward motion. Folks scour social media pages to see who has what appointment, what political power is being amassed and what black person has been newly elected.
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The Negro Factories Corporation – PBS
“Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self-contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not.” — Marcus Garvey, 1929
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A Photographer Who Uses Color to Hint at Her Own Presence – Hyperallergic
The latest issue of Aperture focuses on Africa and features strong, colorful images by the Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng’ok.
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