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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

Film Review: Miss Sharon Jones!

August 22, 2016September 4, 2016African American Music, African American Women ...

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings is a Grammy-nominated R&B band from Brooklyn. Their groove is funky like James Brown’s. Jones’ gyrations are as wild and ferocious as Tina Tuner’s.

Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation

August 22, 2016November 21, 2016African American Lives, African American Politics ...

Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.

Black Lotus Is a Woman’s Search for Racial Identity in a Racist World

August 22, 2016September 4, 2016African American Literature, African American Lives ...

One woman’s journey into racial awareness and self-discovery takes readers down a winding road of abuse, pain and, ultimately, redemption.

Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Burundi

August 20, 2016September 4, 2016Africa, African History ...

Can children forced to fight be reintegrated back into their families and communities?

New Film By Ethiopian Nurse Combats Mental Health Stigmas In Africa

August 20, 2016September 4, 2016African Mental Health, KOLUMN ...

“Chula” is changing the narrative around mental health across the African diaspora.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

August 19, 2016September 4, 2016African American Families, African American History ...

American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.