Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez, Refinery29 Leah Chase (left) and Jessica B. Harris at Dooky Chase’s in 2018. PHOTO: CEDRIC ANGELES. Featured Image [dropcap]Cyntoia[/dropcap] Brown is set to walk free next Wednesday, exactly eight months after former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam commuted her sentence. Brown, now 31, had been serving a life sentence for the murder of a […]
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The Carrot and the Stick: On Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” | LA Review of Books
By Art Edwards, LA Review of Books I USED TO THINK novels contained immensities, which came from reading the great works during my college years and the resulting expansion of my mind. I assumed the novels themselves contained huge portions of the world. It took decades for me to understand that novels did not contain the […]
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Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020 | NBC News
NBC News has assembled for the first time a record of the black vote for each competitive Democratic presidential campaign since exit polling began.
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How My FAMU Sorority Sisters And I Are Working To Change The Narrative Around Haiti | Blavity
“Our five-day trip in Haiti was a result of our overall desire to serve others and to bring awareness to a country that has been under tense media scrutiny.”
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John Legend Rips Donald Trump as ‘Racist’ ‘Piece of S—‘ After President’s Baltimore Rant | People.com
John Legend said President Trump, a “racist prick,” needs to be taken out of office
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‘Brian Banks’: Football Star Who Was Wrongfully Imprisoned Shares His Story For “People Who Are Currently Voiceless” | Deadline
Amanda N’Duka, Deadline Aldis Hodge (left, with Sherri Shepherd) stars as a high school football star whose NFL dreams are waylaid when he’s wrongfully convicted of a crime in the inspirational drama “Brian Banks.” (Aug. 9) (Photo: BLEECKER STREET). Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] story told in Brian Banks is unfortunately all too familiar. The eponymous biopic, […]
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16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America | The New York Times
When Ashleigh Shanti, 29, journeyed across the country on a six-month sabbatical last year, she decided that her next step as a chef needed to fulfill a critical desire: cooking food that celebrated her heritage as a black woman from the South and rebuffed assumptions about what that food could be. For hummus, she replaced […]
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To win a murder conviction, police and prosecutors made up evidence and secretly paid a witness, St. Louis DA finds | The Washington Post
The state’s theory stretched the physical limits of the human body. Somehow on the night of Oct. 30, 1994, Lamar Johnson left his friend’s apartment, traveled three miles to Marcus Boyd’s front porch with one other man, killed Boyd, fled on foot and arrived back at the apartment to continue socializing with friends — all […]
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Herbie Hancock Is Still Breaking Rules | The New York Times
The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.
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The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades | Smithsonian.com
In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.
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