Created in 1966 by Dr. Mulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is a holiday focused on connecting African-Americans with their heritage and culture. A celebration with genesis in the Black Panther and freedom movement era, Karenga’s goal for the pan-African holiday is to, “give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history.”
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Meet Tytianna Smith 4.6 GPA, 29 ACT Score, 1.7 Million In Scholarships And Headed To HBCU Norfolk State University | Campus Lately
Tytianna Smith is a graduating senior from Lafayette High School in Lafayette, Alabama.
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Gladys West, the ‘hidden figure’ of GPS, inducted into Air Force hall of fame | The Hill
Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.
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Meet Haitian-Puerto Rican artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, on what would have been his 58th birthday | Face2Face Africa
Perhaps you first heard about Jean-Michel Basquiat earlier in 2017 when his painting, Untitled (1982), sold for a record $110.5 million, making his art the most expensive American painting of all time.
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Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ | The New York Times
A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.
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Buhari, Tinubu, Ofeimun mourn as Sophie Oluwole dies at 83 | Punch
Renowned philosopher and scholar, Prof Sophie Oluwole, has died at the age of 83.
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Black student leader sued her racist online harassers and wins groundbreaking settlement | TheGrio
Taylor Dumpson hopes the victory will send the message to white supremacist trolls that they will be held accountable.
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Mo’ne Davis, Little League World Series Legend Is Headed To Hampton University | HBCU Buzz
HBCU Editors , HBCU Buzz [dropcap]Mo’ne[/dropcap] Davis, who four years ago hurled her way into the annals of the Little League World Series and the hearts of the sports world as a pitcher for the Taney Dragons of South Philadelphia, has decided she will attend Hampton University next fall. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Davis, who used a […]
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Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock Pen an Open Letter to the Next Generation of Artists | Nest HQ
Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock have been friends for over forty years. In the pursuit of their art, they’ve shattered boundaries previously believed unbreakable, they’ve revolutionized the concept of innovation, and have chosen to make the endeavor of living compassionately and courageously the center of their lives.
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[VIDEO] Ibeyi: The French-Cuban twins who sing in Yoruba | BBC
Celestina Olulode , BBC Ebru Yildiz. Featured Image [dropcap]Ibeyi[/dropcap] is a band made up of two French-Cuban sisters, who often sing in the West African language Yoruba. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] They learnt the language, which differs somewhat from what is spoken in Nigeria and Benin today, from their parents. In this BBC Africa One Minute Story […]
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