“If I have served as an instrument for education, I’m happy,” Gina Torres said. “There’s Cameron Diaz, there’s me and everything in between.”
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How America’s Ugly History of Segregation Changed the Meaning of the Word ‘Ghetto’ | TIME
By Daniel B. Schwartz, TIME Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so. Beforehand, the term was primarily associated with Jewish urban quarters, and […]
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How a Newspaper Article Saved Thousands of Black Gospel Records From Obscurity |Atlas Obscura
A professor in Texas collects and digitizes rare recordings from across the country.
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Ava DuVernay’s Array 360 Film Series Promotes The Power Of Black Women’s Perspectives | Essence
Through a carefully curated six-week lineup, audiences will discover the often unheralded work of Black women directors and filmmakers of color from around the world.
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Southern Sugarcane Revival | Hakai Magazine
Sugarcane on Sapelo Island was once tended by slaves. Now it might sustain their descendants and help keep Geechee culture alive.
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The World Of Rosetta Tharpe: A Turning The Tables Playlist | NPR
By Cheryl Pawelski, NPR Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now. Her pioneering guitar virtuosity was fueled by the gospel swinging, shouting, holy-spirit energy of the evangelical church and the blues she heard on Chicago’s Maxwell Street, which crossed each other like crackling live wires in her […]
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Shenandoah National Park Is Confronting Its History | Outside
America’s parks are confronting the past in an effort to create more inclusive wilderness spaces
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When a black-owned funeral home in a gentrifying city has no one left to bury | The Washington Post
By Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post The thick, dusty ledgers were scattered about the cluttered office, 18 of them, their pages filled with neat script documenting the deaths of thousands of black Washingtonians over the course of a half-century. Open a volume to Page 123 and there is Lawrence Monroe Ryles, 39, a “colored” […]
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When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black Pioneers | The New York Times
In the 1850s, Midwestern states used harsh laws to deny free African-Americans wealth and property.
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Isra Hirsi Is 16, Unbothered, and Saving the Planet | Vice
As the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike and the daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi is grappling with harassment, safety threats, tokenization, and privilege on a national scale years before she’s even allowed to vote.
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