In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora.
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Solange Knowles Pens Essay on Being a Black Person in a White Space | The Root
On Friday evening, after an evening out with her husband and 11-year-old son, Solange Knowles went on a tweet storm about how she was treated at a Kraftwerk concert in New Orleans.
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Building America | The Nation
The making of the black working class.
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Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First | The New York Times
Moderators of an online forum called Black People Twitter have caused an uproar by requiring participants to submit a photograph proving they are not white.
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Man who says he killed 93 women is America’s deadliest serial killer, FBI says | The Guardian
Authorities say Samuel Little, 79, serving life in California prison, has confessed to the murders
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Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls | NMAAHC
I never fully realized the monumental role that massive numbers of children played in civil rights protests. Law enforcement arrested and jailed children by the thousands for days, and sometimes months, and their involvement helped to enable one of the greatest legal and social assaults on racism in the 20th century—the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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A new ‘Porgy and Bess’ raises old questions about race and opera | The Undefeated
We need more roles for black singers and actors
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The most unusual ways many African countries got their names | Quartz Africa
The concept of nation states in Africa is only a bit over a century old, arising after the 1884 Berlin Conference and the subsequent Scramble for Africa by European superpowers of the time.
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The U.S. Has Been Silencing Black Girls’ Voices for Decades | Teen Vogue
In this op-ed, Juvenile Law Center’s Jessica Feierman and Girls for Gender Equity’s Ashley Sawyer talk about the systemic punishment and arrest of Black girls who speak out about discrimination.
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How this Black woman cannabis entrepreneur is breaking down barriers in Michigan | theGrio
Cannabis entrepreneur Anqunette Sarfoh is best known as ‘Que’ from Detroit’s Fox 2 News. She graced the small screen as a morning anchor for 15 years before being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2013.
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