Ariell Johnson checks out a customer at the cash register as patrons browse her store’s collection of comic books. The 33-year-old is the owner of Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. You might say Johnson is a superhero herself.
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Are Race Relations Responsible for the Surge in HBCU Enrollment?
A survey finds that some HBCUs are seeing as high as a 39 percent increase in student enrollment
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Why No Major Martin Luther King Jr. Artifacts will be at the new African American museum
They had something they knew the National Museum of African American History and Culture wanted. So in January, curator Rex Ellis headed to Atlanta, slipped on a pair of white gloves, and carefully turned the pages of King’s traveling Bible. The public last saw it during President Obama’s second inauguration when it was borrowed from the family.
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Media Preview Event – National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Days before the much-anticipated Grand Opening, The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers an unforgettable preview of exhibits.
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How An Architect Used Striking Design To Capture New Smithsonian’s Meaning
As the Smithsonian prepares to open its National Museum of African American History and Culture in a couple weeks, NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with the museum’s architect, David Adjaye.
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Injustice Went Viral Way Before Facebook Live (NSFW)
When a Police Officer shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July, his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds did something remarkable: She picked up her phone and broadcast it on Facebook Live. Three million people watched Castile die in real time.
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The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration
When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt.
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5 Extraordinary Artworks at the Joburg Art Fair
The FNB Joburg Art Fair wrapped up yesterday at the Sandton Convention Centre. South Africa’s largest contemporary African art event, the ninth edition of the fair ran 90 exhibitions deep, with a particular focus on East Africa.
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Get to Know the Cameroonian Author Behind a Million-Dollar Book Deal
Cameroonian-American novelist Imbolo Mbue joins ranks with authors Chimamanda Adichie of Americanah, Yaa Gyasi of Homegoing and Igoni Barrett of Blackass creating a new canon of African literature.
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Black Social Photography in South Africa: Before & After
The earliest photography in Africa can be traced back to the colonial cultural anthropologists of the mid-nineteenth century. The intention at the time was to shock the Western world with imagery of savages. More than a century later and not much has changed.
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