The series Making Faces on Film gathers daring and singular films about being black in the United States, from 1913 to today.
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“I shall have him to dine as often as I please” – The time when Roosevelt invited African-American educator Booker T. Washington to a dinner at the White House – The Vintage News
Many African-Americans were invited to the White House before 1901, but none of them was invited to dine with the President until Theodore Roosevelt invited African-American educator Booker T. Washington to a dinner at the White House.
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Teaching Black Power at an HBCU and the Journey to Undo the Miseducation – Atlanta Black Star
This semester, at a historically Black college, I taught a course on African liberation movements that, in part, examined how such activism in Africa influenced Black Power across the globe.
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Ted Nugent’s repeated calls for Obama’s death didn’t stop Trump from hosting him at the White House – Think Progress
On Wednesday evening, President Trump dined and posed for photos with rock star Ted Nugent, a man who became the target of a Secret Service investigation after he said in 2012 that if President Obama were reelected, Nugent would “either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
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Lynn Nottage Wins Her Second Pulitzer Prize for Broadway’s ‘Sweat’ – Variety
Current Broadway play “Sweat” has scored playwright Lynn Nottage her second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with the award this year going to a show that has proven a timely look at a group of working-class friends in a declining factory town.
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What happened to black Germans under the Nazis – Independent
Not all survivors have had equal opportunities to have their story heard in Holocaust commemorations.
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Finding the Lost Boyz of Chicago – The Atlantic
As part of our series with of interviews with the winners of the The Atlantic’s Renewal Awards, I spoke with LaVonte Stewart, the founder of Lost Boyz Inc., a baseball and softball program that steers children in his Chicago neighborhood away from violence through social-emotional development.
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In Photos: This Is What 1890s Jamaica Looked Like – Okay Africa
Making Jamaica, at London’s Autograph ABP, is an exhibition of archival images of Jamaica taken in 1891 by a Scottish maker of landscape photography.
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Painter Barkley L. Hendricks Dies at 72 – Hyperallergic
The artist, best known for his bold portraits of Black people, passed away early this morning.
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Law passes in NY mandating that police interrogations be recorded on video – New York Amsterdam News
All police questioning in major crimes must be recorded on video during the entire time that a suspect is in custody, under a law approved Monday by legislators in New York, according to an official with the Innocence Project.
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