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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Ilhan Omar: It Is Not Enough to Condemn Trump’s Racism | The New York Times
The nation’s ideals are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them.
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Rapper Common, developers planning massive movie studio campus as part of South Works redevelopment | Chicago Tribune
John Byrne & Ryan Ori, Chicago Tribune Common. ©AARON ROGOSIN/RED BULL CONTENT POOL. Featured Image [dropcap]Chicago[/dropcap] rapper Common and a group of real estate developers are drawing up plans to convert the massive former U.S. Steel plant on the city’s south lakefront into a massive movie production campus alongside live entertainment venues, sports facilities, hotels, […]
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Car mechanic shifts gears, becomes a doctor at age 47 and helps address shortage of black doctors | Cleveland.com
Michael K. McIntyre, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com Dr. Carl Allamby stands on the helipad at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. Allamby recently started working as an ER resident at Akron General. He’s a former mechanic and business owner who decided to become a doctor while in his 40s. July 8, 2019 (Gus Chan / The […]
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The man who was caged in a zoo | The Guardian
In 1904, Ota Benga was kidnapped from Congo and taken to the US, where he was exhibited with monkeys. His appalling story reveals the roots of a racial prejudice that still haunts us
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Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive | Smithsonian
To Be Donated for Public Benefit and Broadest Possible Access
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Secrets of 1946 Mass Lynching Could Be Revealed After Court Ruling | The New York Times
Matt Stevens, The New York Times Leah Chase (left) and Jessica B. Harris at Dooky Chase’s in 2018. PHOTO: CEDRIC ANGELES. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] July 25, 1946, two black couples were riding in a car in Walton County, Ga., when they were mobbed by a group of white men. They were dragged from the car […]
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Jim Crow’s Last Stand | The Atlantic
The legacy of Jim Crow continues to loom large in the United States. But nowhere is it arguably more evident than in Louisiana. In 1898, a constitutional convention successfully codified a slew of Jim Crow laws in a flagrant effort to disenfranchise black voters and otherwise infringe on their rights. “Our mission was to establish […]
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Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened. | The New York Times
For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.
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