Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would tackle her priorities using a novel set of executive actions that would require nothing from Congress.Photo: Jeff Chiu / Associated Press. Featured Image [dropcap]WASHINGTON[/dropcap] — Kamala Harris has unveiled an ambitious set of policies as part of her presidential campaign that have a […]
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What Is the Middle Passage? | ThoughtCo.
The History of the Slave Trade Across the Atlantic
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First female, African-American Bishop to lead West TN Episcopal Diocese | WMCTV
Kontji Anthony, WMCTV Most Rev. Michael Curry, the first African-American presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, was chief consecrator on Saturday, May 4, 2019, at Hope Church, for the Rt. Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf’s consecration service. Roaf is the Fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee. (Lisa Buser/Special to The Daily Memphian). Featured […]
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Revealing the Lives of Black Fathers | The New York Times
Maurice Berger, The New York Times Quadean and Carter. Credit Courtesy of Twenty Eight Ink. Featured Image [dropcap]When[/dropcap] Robyn Price Pierre walked down the street with her husband and newborn baby, she often noticed the curious stares and smiles her spouse received from strangers as he pushed his daughter’s stroller. She soon realized why: It […]
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Amy Sherald, who painted Michelle Obama’s portrait, designs a mural that turns a Philly teen into her own inspiration | Elizabeth Wellington | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Elizabeth Wellington, The Philadelphia Inquirer Arthur Haywood works to install a mural by Amy Sherald, the woman who painted the portrait of Michelle Obama for the Smithsonian, at 1109 Sansom in Center City Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. The girl in the mural, Najee Spencer-Young, is from North Philly. HEATHER KHALIFA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. […]
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Black Bodies, Green Spaces | The New York Times
Why is the image of an environmentally conscious African-American still hard for us to picture?
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Sudan Ousted a Brutal Dictator. His Successor Was His Enforcer. | The New York Times
Declan Walsh, The New York Times Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, also known as Hemeti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries that carried out the violent dispersal of protesters on June 3. Credit Declan Walsh/The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]KHARTOUM[/dropcap], Sudan — Once a camel trader who led a militia accused of genocidal […]
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Black Woman-Owned Construction Firm Hired to Build New Terminals at JFK and Laguardia Airports | BlackBusiness.com
Staff, BlackBusiness.com PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHNY PITTS. Featured Image [dropcap]Being[/dropcap] a woman in the male-dominated construction industry could be challenging for some. But for Cheryl McKissack Daniel, who is the president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, the oldest Black-owned and female-run construction company in the US, it always feels like home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Based in […]
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Sculptor Augusta Savage’s Towering Impact on the Harlem Renaissance | Artsy
When I was in elementary school in the early 1990s, I would occasionally beg my mother for money to buy a book from the Scholastic Books circular. One year, I asked for a title called Great Women In the Struggle, the second volume in the “Book of Black Heroes” series. Its purple cover featured black-and-white […]
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Muslim Woman Investigated Her Own Hate Crime After NYPD Dismissed Her Case | HuffPost
“I told myself I wasn’t going to be one of those cases that got abandoned,” said Fatoumata Camara, who dug up video proving she was beaten and robbed.
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