The Passages Artists Collective seeks a permanent home for African-American artists
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Infamous Mothers: A New Vision
Infamous Mothers presents its first installment in a series of coffee table books celebrating the stories of African-American mothers from Chicago who have gone on such journeys, bringing back extraordinary gifts.
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The Route Of Division
In Birmingham, Alabama, a public bus takes about a dozen housekeepers from their low-income, mostly black neighborhood to a wealthy white suburb. These are the only stops the city bus makes; these are virtually the only people who ride it.
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How Do I Connect With Kin of My Ancestor’s Slave Owners?
Tracing Your Roots: Questions about the family who enslaved a headline-making ancestor and how to connect with their descendants.
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Jerry Pinkney’s Illustrated World, An Escape from a Nation in Conflict
To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, and our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.
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UT Professor Tackles Sordid Tale of 1880s Dismemberment
University of Texas professor Kali Nicole Gross has a homicidal maniac as her muse — and that led her to write “Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America.”
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Curly-centric Hair Salon Teaches Dominican Women to Love Their Pajón
Miss Rizos uses African and African-American hairstyles to affirm blackness in straight-hair-obsessed country.
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‘Balm’: A D.C. Writer’s Moving Tale of Hope and Healing in Slavery’s Wake
In 2011, Washington writer Dolen Perkins-Valdez published “Wench,” an unsparing look at the brutal relationships between Southern plantation owners and the slaves they kept as mistresses.
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Selling The Blues
To draw tourists, the Mississippi Delta plays on its musical heritage
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Boarding School Graduate’s Search for Answers Leads to Washitaw ‘Nation,’ Jail
Kush Atum-Bey knew some complications were inevitable when he proclaimed himself a member of the Washitaw Mu’ur Nation, no longer subject to American law.
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