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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

Chance the Rapper Opens Up About Meeting His Wife at 9 Years Old: ‘Let’s Get Married!’ | People

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019African American Families, KINDR'D ...

“I saw her dancing and I was like, ‘Let’s get married!'” the artist recalled

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Patriotism Questioned During 9/11 Ceremony: ‘Why Your Confusion?’ | The Root

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

Jay Connor, The Root The longtime couple have finally become engaged, celebrating with family and friends. (Image via NBC Chicago). Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap]side from doing nothing in response to mass shootings, one of America’s favorite pastimes is touting the virtues of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. This is a melting pot after all, and post-racial America […]

Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again | TIME

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, TIME Accompanied by motorcycle-mounted police, school buses carrying African American students arrive at formerly all-white South Boston High School on September 12, 1974. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of busing as a mechanism to end racial segregation because black children were still attending segregated schools. White children had […]

How The African American Day Parade Has Celebrated Blackness For 50 Years | Blavity

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

Manseen Logan, Blavity Image Courtesy of Blavity. Featured Image [dropcap]E[/dropcap]very third Sunday in September, a grand parade celebrating everything that is good and Black takes over the Harlem, New York City streets. It’s a pretty big deal. In fact, The African American Day Parade (AADP) has been a big deal, since its debut in 1969 […]

Locked out of L.A.’s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homeless | Los Angeles Times

September 11, 2019August 4, 2020African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked out of other neighborhoods by racial covenants. His stepfather worked at Lockheed Martin to support the family […]

Thinking, Thinking, Looking and Looking | Lapham’s Quarterly

September 11, 2019August 4, 2020African American Photography, KINDR'D ...

On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw.

Police in Alabama planted drugs and guns on over 1,000 innocent Black men | Rolling Out

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

A.R. SHAW, Rolling Out Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Michael Blann/Thinkstock. Featured Image [dropcap]B[/dropcap]lack men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least 12 White police officers involved. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The officers […]

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