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The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’

October 4, 2016November 21, 2016African Art, African Women ...

Njideka Akunyili Crosby was 16 before she took her first art class. She talks about why most of the figures in her paintings appear to be doing nothing at all, Mean Girls at Yale, and the debt she owes Harlem’s Studio Museum

We Celebrate Black Culture One Minute, and Crush Black Lives The Next

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Commuities, African American News ...

Poet Claudia Rankine’s ‘genius grant’ win is a victory for African Americans. But there’s something devastating about the context in which it was awarded

100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945)

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Literature, KOLUMN ...

This influential memoir of a rebellious southern boyhood vividly evokes the struggle for African American identity in the decades before civil rights

A Social-Justice Agenda for Community College

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Education, KOLUMN ...

Eloy Oakley sees expanding access to traditionally underserved communities as an economic imperative for the state and nation.

[VIDEO] The Violent Tuition Protests in South Africa

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African Education, KOLUMN ...

Students have demonstrated across the country for the last 10 days as fees are set to increase.

‘I Felt My Blackness Being Chipped Away Bit by Bit’

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Literature, African American Lives ...

My colleague Ta-Nehisi spoke last night with French journalist Iris Deroeux about his time living in Paris and more broadly about race in France compared to the U.S.:

“I Am Not Your Negro” film based on James Baldwin book

September 30, 2016December 4, 2016African American Cinema, African American History ...

One of the most artistic and daring political statements at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was the world premiere of Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House.

Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby | The New York Times Magazine

September 29, 2016October 17, 2017Black Crime, KOLUMN ...

In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case.

‘Allowing America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past’

September 29, 2016September 29, 2016African American History, KOLUMN ...

[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]‘ALLOWING AMERICA TO CONFRONT ITS TORTURED RACIAL PAST’ BY Clare Foran PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]How the National Museum of African American History and Culture recounts black history in the United States[/perfectpullquote]The Smithsonian Institution museums that dot the National Mall in Washington, D.C. […]

‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes

September 29, 2016African American Commuities, African American Politics ...

Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.