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Kara Walker Invites You to a Public Hanging | Hyperallergic
Walker’s installation “Virginia’s Lynch Mob” evokes a latter-day Saturnalia, turning the world upside-down.
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Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed | Smithsonian Magazine
Seventy-five percent of Americans disapproved of the civil rights leader as he spoke out against the Vietnam War and economic disparity
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Historically black schools in Georgia see a surge in giving | Miami Herald
The Associated Press , Miami Herald Spelman College Student Government Association president Jill Cartwright attends a class on April 9 Melissa Golden for Time. Featured Image [dropcap]ATLANTA[/dropcap] Historically black colleges and universities are seeing an upsurge in support and donations. Last fiscal year, Spelman College in Atlanta raised a record $48 million in donations, The […]
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[VIDEO] New Voices Foundation Acquires Madam C.J. Walker’s Estate To Create Think Tank For Black Women Entrepreneurs | Essence
The Villa Lewaro estate will be used as a “learning institute, or think tank, to foster entrepreneurship for present and future generations,” according to New Voices Foundation’s Richelieu Dennis.
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Black-Owned Startup Combines Greeting Cards With Technology and Automation | Black News.com
Photographs by Marti Corn; Text by Mark Murrmann , Black News.com [dropcap]Atlanta[/dropcap]— “How many times have you found yourself in this scenario: It’s a friend’s or relative’s birthday and you’re driving to the store at the last minute to buy a card. You also must go get stamps. “I’ve been there more times than I […]
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Kwanzaa in Philly: How neighborhoods celebrate the African-American holiday | Billy Penn
In Strawberry Mansion, it’s all about embracing self-determination.
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The Jonestown We Don’t Know | The New York Review Of Books
Gaiutra Bahadur , The New York Review Of Books Matthew Naythons/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. The Evans family, who survived the Jonestown massacre by walking out of the camp on the morning of November 18, saying they were going on a family picnic, United States, November 30, 1978. Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] past November marked forty years […]
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Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full” | The AV Club
Danette Chavez , The AV Club Stephan James Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times. Featured Image [dropcap]For[/dropcap] Stephan James, 2018 was all about getting home, whether he was playing a star-crossed lover in Barry Jenkins’ singular romance, If Beale Street Could Talk, or a starry-eyed soldier trying to reintegrate himself into society in […]
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Reverse Colonialism Ad Banned In South Africa | AFROPUNK
Zama Mdoda , AFROPUNK [dropcap]South[/dropcap] African restaurant Chicken Licken has a reputation for epic advertisements and their latest commercial is no different. Their latest offering follows an African prince called Big Mjohnana who leaves his village in 1650 to find adventure out in the world. Big John ends up in Holland where he stumbles across […]
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