Staff, Good Black News Taylor Dumpson, American University’s student body president, grew up in Maryland with an awareness of the hateful symbolism surrounding the noose. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that white supremacists who used social media to threaten […]
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Dad and daughter need a little help in this super relatable clip from Matthew Cherry’s animated short “Hair Love” | AV Club
Shannon Miller, AV Club Image: Penguin Kids (YouTube). Featured Image [dropcap]Audiences[/dropcap] who plan on checking out The Angry Birds Movie 2 in theaters this weekend will also get to watch “Hair Love,” the animated short film by filmmaker Matthew Cherry and executive-produced by Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Frank Abney (Toy Story 4). […]
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Beloved St. Louis stage veteran Linda Kennedy passes at 68 | The St. Louis American
Kenya Vaughn, The St. Louis American A snapshot of mid-century South Philly. Featured Image [dropcap]Linda[/dropcap] Alton Randall Kennedy, a staple of the St. Louis theater scene for more than four decades, passed away this morning (Friday, August 16) after a battle with cancer. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Her son Terell Randall Sr. confirmed her passing via Facebook. […]
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A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans | The Guardian
100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light
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Bolivia’s Powerful Cholitas Luchadora Wrestlers Photographed by Todd Antony | Colossal
Photographer Todd Anthony (previously) documents Bolivia’s best-dressed wrestlers in a new series, Flying Cholitas. The women, who are indigenous Aymara, compete in their sport wearing voluminous petticoats, colorful skirts, and long-sleeved lacy tops rather than in the minimal, form-fitting spandex worn by many athletes around the world. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] These ensembles resemble ones that Aymara […]
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Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough | The Guardian
The historian on how he confronted his own racism and the lessons he learned along the way, the far right’s abuse of free speech, and why the rise of the Squad gives him hope
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Whatever happened to author Dorothy West? | The Guardian
Writing alongside Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, West was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance. Diana Evans asks: why were her books overlooked for so long?
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Color and Incarceration | Harvard Magazine
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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The Great Land Robbery | The Atlantic
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms
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How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment | The Daily Beast
Southern aristocrats wanted armed militias mainly to control their slaves. So they wanted language in the new nation’s constitution protecting that right.
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