The short documentary “If We So Choose” introduces residents of Athens, Georgia who not only lived through Jim Crow separatism but fought against it and won.
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Antoine Fuqua To Develop Film Based On Black Panther Murdered By Police – Huffington Post
In 1969 Fred Hampton was shot dead during a police raid.
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This Mother’s Day, Black Lives Matter Activists Will Give More Than 30 Women Their Freedom – The Nation
These women are in jail not because they’ve been convicted of a crime but because they can’t pay to get back to their lives as they await trial.
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‘Shark Tank’ Investor Daymond John Shares Successful Battle Against Thyroid Cancer – Atlanta Black Star
Daymond John, an investor in the ABC series, “Shark Tank” is going public with his thyroid cancer diagnosis that he had treated.
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William Barber II, Legendary Civil Rights Leader, Steps Down From NC NAACP Leadership Role – The Root
When the words “black liberation theology” are spoken, several names immediately come to mind: the Rev. James Cone, who coined the term; the Rev. Sojourner Truth; the Rev. Nat Turner; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rev. Jeremiah Wright; Dr. Cornel West; the Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon; and the Rev. Dr. William Barber II.
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6 Black Explorers That Will Transform How You See the Ancient World – Atlanta Black Star
Christopher Columbus wasn’t responsible for Africans ultimately coming to America.
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Thurgood Marshall’s widow keeps his legacy alive – New York Amsterdam News
Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, fought to end legal segregation as a civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Ruud van Empel’s “Fantasy Portraits” At Beetles+Huxley
Faces too symmetrical, clothes perfectly ironed, trees with not a leaf out of place, there’s something unsettling about Dutch photographer Ruud van Empel’s work. It sits uncomfortably on the line between reality and fantasy; leaving the viewer full of questions. Who are these children? Where are they? Why is their gaze so blank?
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Ben Carson Thinks Public Housing Should Be Less Comfortable. America Already Made That Mistake Once. – Slate
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is on listening tour of subsidized housing, a national meet-and-greet that advocates hoped would open the bootstrap-loving surgeon’s eyes to a nationwide affordability crisis.
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Rosa Parks’ Pancake Recipe Will Blow Yours Out Of The Water – Huff Post
There’s peanut butter in there.
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