Amanda N’Duka, Deadline Aldis Hodge (left, with Sherri Shepherd) stars as a high school football star whose NFL dreams are waylaid when he’s wrongfully convicted of a crime in the inspirational drama “Brian Banks.” (Aug. 9) (Photo: BLEECKER STREET). Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] story told in Brian Banks is unfortunately all too familiar. The eponymous biopic, […]
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16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America | The New York Times
When Ashleigh Shanti, 29, journeyed across the country on a six-month sabbatical last year, she decided that her next step as a chef needed to fulfill a critical desire: cooking food that celebrated her heritage as a black woman from the South and rebuffed assumptions about what that food could be. For hummus, she replaced […]
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To win a murder conviction, police and prosecutors made up evidence and secretly paid a witness, St. Louis DA finds | The Washington Post
The state’s theory stretched the physical limits of the human body. Somehow on the night of Oct. 30, 1994, Lamar Johnson left his friend’s apartment, traveled three miles to Marcus Boyd’s front porch with one other man, killed Boyd, fled on foot and arrived back at the apartment to continue socializing with friends — all […]
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Herbie Hancock Is Still Breaking Rules | The New York Times
The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.
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The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades | Smithsonian.com
In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.
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Ilhan Omar: It Is Not Enough to Condemn Trump’s Racism | The New York Times
The nation’s ideals are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them.
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Rapper Common, developers planning massive movie studio campus as part of South Works redevelopment | Chicago Tribune
John Byrne & Ryan Ori, Chicago Tribune Common. ©AARON ROGOSIN/RED BULL CONTENT POOL. Featured Image [dropcap]Chicago[/dropcap] rapper Common and a group of real estate developers are drawing up plans to convert the massive former U.S. Steel plant on the city’s south lakefront into a massive movie production campus alongside live entertainment venues, sports facilities, hotels, […]
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Car mechanic shifts gears, becomes a doctor at age 47 and helps address shortage of black doctors | Cleveland.com
Michael K. McIntyre, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com Dr. Carl Allamby stands on the helipad at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. Allamby recently started working as an ER resident at Akron General. He’s a former mechanic and business owner who decided to become a doctor while in his 40s. July 8, 2019 (Gus Chan / The […]
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The man who was caged in a zoo | The Guardian
In 1904, Ota Benga was kidnapped from Congo and taken to the US, where he was exhibited with monkeys. His appalling story reveals the roots of a racial prejudice that still haunts us
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Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive | Smithsonian
To Be Donated for Public Benefit and Broadest Possible Access
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