Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Good Black News UNITED STATES – CIRCA 1939: African American Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images). Featured Image [dropcap]According[/dropcap] to washingtonpost.com, The Metropolitan Opera in New York plans to hire an all-Black outside chorus for its first presentation in nearly thirty years of ”Porgy and Bess,” which opens […]
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Sweet Home Cafe | Atlas Obscura
This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
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What Happens When a Billionaire Swoops In to Solve the Student-Debt Crisis | The Atlantic
A philanthropist surprised Morehouse College graduates at commencement by announcing he would pay off their student loans. But one person—even a very generous one—can only do so much.
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These Extraordinary Shirts Define Black Pride | Buzzfeed
Treye Green, Buzzfeed Naomi Wadler talks about gun violence at a Smithsonian Institution event on December 7. (Erin Schaff; Lily illustration), Featured Image We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. Oh, and FYI — […]
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Nnedi Okorafor Is Creating a TV Series Company for Africanfuturist Stories | Brittle Paper
Nnedi Okorafor is creating a TV series company for Africanfuturist stories. The multi-awarded novelist revealed this on Facebook via a post on 16 April. The company’s name is Africanfuturism Productions, Inc. In a reply to a comment by the writer and University of Manchester lecturer Geoff Ryman, she wrote: “TV series are my focus right […]
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How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All | Smithsonian.com
Historian Martha S. Jones takes a look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage
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The Story Of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’ | NPR
By the early 1970s, Stevie Wonder had already spent nearly a decade churning out hits for Motown Records as Little Stevie. But at age 22 he no longer wanted to follow the Motown formula, a formula designed to produce hit singles rather than innovation. So Wonder struck out on his own. Over the next decade, […]
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The failure of Reconstruction was a ruthless act of sabotage | The Washington Post
In Conservatives sometimes accuse the academic left of ignoring the good in U.S. history and emphasizing the horrors. But in some respects, the typical telling of the American story does not focus enough on the horrors. As I recall from my distant youth, U.S. history texts dealt with the run-up to the Civil War, then […]
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Universal Programs, Not Reparations, Are Needed To Counter Racism’s Effects | In These Times
The racial wealth gap is real and pernicious, but reparations are not the answer.
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There’s Still Hope for South Sudan | The Atlantic
The cease-fire currently in effect may not last, but a brittle equilibrium is better than a return to warfare.
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