William Melvin Kelley, the experimental novelist and filmmaker—who mastered and reinvented a kind of midcentury literary style crafted from a colorful array of language and perspectives—died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017, at the age of 79.
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Young Detroit Chess Team Wins Big at National Tournament – Atlanta Black Star
Detroit’s University Prep Elementary and Middle School chess teams are flying high after winning big at the SuperNationals VI Chess Tournament in Nashville, Tenn.
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Lee Boyd Malvo, Serving Life in ‘Beltway Sniper’ Case, Must Be Resentenced, Judge Says – The New York Times
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ruled that a man who terrorized this region 15 years ago as the so-called Beltway Sniper must be resentenced because the life sentences imposed when he was a teenager are unconstitutional.
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Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement -ThoughtCo
How Jazz Musicians Spoke Out for Racial Equality
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‘When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression’ – Huffington Post
The first rule of White Club is you do not talk about White Club…
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Three Ways Bill “Bojangles” Robinson Changed Dance Forever – Smithsonian.com
Robinson worked throughout his career to make life better for black performers
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Black Parents Sue Mississippi Over Inequitable Schools – The Huffington Post
The lawsuit claims that black students are being denied their “school rights and privileges.”
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Imagining a Black Wonder Woman – The Atlantic
Growing up, I was told my favorite comic-book heroine was white. And yet her struggles always seemed uniquely similar to my own.
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MacDella Cooper, Former Refugee & Model Could Be Liberia’s Next President – Shoppe Black
MacDella Cooper plans to be the next president of Liberia. She is the only woman running against twenty male candidates.
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Gina Prince-Bythewood Becomes 1st Black Woman to Direct Superhero Movie – The Root
Sony is already creating a buzz for its upcoming film Silver & Black, the studio’s film starring classic Spider-Man characters Silver Sable and Black Cat, by announcing that writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood will direct the film.
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