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About Blackness, Africanness and When It’s Enough | Awesomely Luvvie

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019African American Culture, KINDR'D ...

Luvvie Ajayi, Awesomely Luvvie Luvvie Ajayi DAMON DAHLEN, HUFFINGTON POST. Featured Image [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat is Blackness? Is it based on where you’re from? Is it based on your skin tone? Is it based on your heritage? Is it a lived experience? What is BLACKNESS? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As someone whose Blackness was questioned loudly because of a […]

[Video] Collector Dr. Joy Simmons Takes Us Inside Her Art-Filled L.A. Home | The Cut

July 25, 2019May 20, 2020African American Art, Black Art ...

Dr. Joy Simmons set out in 1992 to design an art-filled home in L.A. in which to raise her two young daughters. She was a practicing radiologist and an art collector, who today has amassed one of the most important collections of African-American art in the country. Joy’s house reflects her passion for her family, […]

Data of prejudice: the uses and abuses of the science of race | New Statesman

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

New books by science writer Angela Saini and psychology professor Jennifer Eberhard look at the “scientific” evolution of racism throughout history.

Memphis black boys, ‘the foremost vulnerable … population in our system,’ are the focus of Ray’s new initiative | Chalkbeat

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019African American Education, KINDR'D ...

Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat Superintendent Joris Ray announced an initiative for black boys Monday at the National Civil Rights Museum. . PHOTO: Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Superintendent Joris Ray launched a new initiative Monday that he hopes will help black boys improve their test scores, take more advanced courses, and be on the […]

‘Harriet’ Trailer: Cynthia Erivo Fights For Freedom as Harriet Tubman in Oscar Hopeful | IndieWire

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

“Eve’s Bayou” director Kasi Lemmons is behind the camera for this biographical drama about the abolitionist icon.

Girl, 12, Describes Killing Of a Black Panther Here | The New York Times

July 24, 2019September 13, 2020African American History, Black History ...

— Max H. Seigel, The New York Times About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors […]

I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. | The New York Times Magazine

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

Donny Hathaway’s Daughter Lalah Is Finally Ready to Honor Him in Concert | The New York Times

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019African American Music, KINDR'D ...

Forty years after the groundbreaking soul singer’s death, his daughter will perform a full show of his music at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

Serena Williams, Mark Cuban Invest in Black-Owned Maternal Healthcare Startup | Black Enterprise

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019African American Entrepreneurs, African American Health ...

Sequoia Blodgett, Melissa Hanna, CEO and Co-Founder (Image: Mahmee). Featured Image [dropcap]M[/dropcap]ahmee, a maternal healthcare startup, recently closed a $3 million round led by Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital. Other investors include Mark Cuban, Serena Williams for Serena Ventures and Pipeline Angels, among others. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The platform allows physicians and specialists to use the […]

‘I Beat That N***r Like He Owed Me Money’: New Jersey Cop Faces Up to 40 Years for Federal Charges Including Using Excessive Force | Atlanta Black Star

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019Criminal Justice Reform, KINDR'D ...

Kiersten Willis, Atlanta Black Star © Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com Former Paterson Police Officer, Frank Toledo, leaves the Federal Courthouse in Newark on July 16, 2019 after being charged in court. Featured Image [dropcap]An[/dropcap] FBI investigation into several police officers in Paterson, New Jersey, has led to a seventh one being charged. On Tuesday, Frank Toledo pled […]