Within Our Gates was Oscar Micheaux’s response to a racist classic.
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HBCUs Graduate More Poor Black Students Than White Colleges – NPR
“HBCUs remain at the forefront of opening doors that had previously been closed to so many…”
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This Colorado Town Shows Off A Forgotten Piece Of African-American History – KCUR 89.3
Blink while driving on Highway 34 east of Greeley, Colorado, and you might miss the former Great Plains town of Dearfield.
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Black artist to watch: Vagabon – New York Amsterdam News
It is important to mention how beautiful the 24-year-old New York-based indie rock artist Laetitia Tamko is.
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Images of Old-School Harlem, Rapidly Vanishing – The New York Times
Is Harlem coming or going? Evolving into its next iteration or disappearing under the onslaught of change? It depends on whom you ask.
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Saving Nina Simone’s Birthplace as an Act of Art and Politics – The New York Times
For those who knew that 30 East Livingston Street was the birthplace of Tryon’s most famous resident — the singer, soul legend and civil rights icon Nina Simone — the house’s appearance on the market late last year crystallized fears that its existence, as stubborn as that of Simone herself, might be coming to an end.
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200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in pictures – The Guardian
From Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to move to Paris and be accepted into the Salon, to superstars of today like Kara Walker, here’s how generations of artists have tackled race, identity and prejudice.
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True/False Film Fest: Ferguson film ‘Whose Streets?,’ from the people who filled them – Los Angeles Times
Sometimes a subject, an audience and a place converge in just the right way. And a combustible way.
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More choice and less quality: The NAACP hold hearing on the state of education – Michigan Chronicle
In the fifth of seven public hearings, the NAACP Task Force, the Detroit branch of the NAACP and the Michigan State Conference held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the state of quality education.
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How Umar Johnson Cured Me of Being a Hidden Hotep – The Root
I am a recovering hidden Hotep. Mind you, not the ankh-wearing, incense-selling, lecture-women-about-their menstrual-cycles kind of Hotep.
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