The voices of African American women are key to resolving gaping maternal health disparities in the United States. Their voices are at the center of a new documentary by Italian filmmaker Paolo Patruno.
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The Rise of Civil Rights Tourism in America’s Deep South
Over the past three years, new and newly revamped civil rights museums have appeared across the Deep South, proving to be popular tourist attractions and economic engines.
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Meet Buhle Ngaba, the South African Storyteller Helping Young Black Girls Find Their Voice
From Bogota to Stratford to Cape Town, Buhle Ngaba is amplifying the voices of young women of colour the world over. The South African actor, author, activist’s first book is a mixed-media work about a young Black girl who finds her voice.
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Hope For Salvation
…Its predominately African-American worship community of some 900 households pulls from as far away as Williamsburg and North Carolina.
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Critics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.
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Obama’s lawyers challenge the money bail system: Can people be kept in jail just because they are poor?
President Obama’s civil rights lawyers are seeking a potentially far-reaching ruling to hold that the Constitution forbids the common practice of keeping people in jail prior to a trial, even for minor offenses, just because they are too poor to pay for bail.
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Art City: Della Wells connects generations of Black Artists
“It never occurred to me that anyone besides white men made art,” says Wells, now a nationally recognized artist who was recently named one of two artists of the year by the City of Milwaukee along with poet Dasha Kelly.
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A viral Christian blog post about accepting interracial marriage shows how deep racial bias runs
An essay published by a relatively obscure Christian blog was removed from the site Wednesday, but not before it was shared more than 79,000 times and inspired a barrage of scathing tweets and comments.
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Andrea Lewis, Former Degrassi Star, Announces Women’s #EmpowermentWknd
Black women will gather in Los Angeles to promote sisterhood, self-love, networking and more.
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This Week at the Black Harvest Film Festival
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s 22nd Annual Black Harvest Film Festival celebrates the best in contemporary independent filmmaking exploring the stories, images, heritage, and history of the black experience in the U.S. and around the world.
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