Shirley Chisholm, Billie Holiday and Elizabeth Jennings Graham will get statues in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
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COMMENTARY: U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman | The Afro-American
A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, The Afro-American A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park’s Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken). Featured Image [dropcap]With[/dropcap] uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad […]
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In diverse metro Atlanta, why are less than a quarter of homes black-owned? | Curbed
Only six U.S. cities have lower percentages of black homeowners, analysis finds
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Civil rights pioneer, black Catholic educator wins Church’s highest honor | Crux
Christopher White, Crux [dropcap]NEW YORK[/dropcap]- Longtime civil rights leader and a pioneer in Catholic higher education, Norman Francis, will receive the nation’s oldest and most prestigious award for American Catholics. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The University of Notre Dame announced Sunday that Francis will be the recipient of the 2019 Laetare Medal. He will receive the honor […]
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‘My Babies’: A Serial Killer’s Chilling Portraits of His Victims | Daily Beast
Samuel Little says he killed women in 16 portraits with the very hand that later sketched their throats.
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Afropean: Capturing The Experience Of Black Women In Europe | Refinery29
Johny Pitts was born into a working class home in Sheffield at the same time Maggie Thatcher was in Number 10. He is the son of an African American father and a white English mother. As he writes in the prologue of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, it was a time when “the older generation […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations | The New Yorker
By The New Yorker, The New Yorker YOUTH & FAMILIES DETERMINED TO SUCCEED. Featured Image [dropcap]It’s[/dropcap] not often that an article comes along that changes the world, but that’s exactly what happened with Ta-Nehisi Coates, five years ago, when he wrote “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic. Reparations have been discussed since the end […]
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How An Innovative Gym Is Changing Lives In This Poor Minneapolis Neighborhood | HuffPost
A wellness program in north Minneapolis could become a model for the nation — delivering affordable, accessible fitness and nutrition where it’s needed most.
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André De Shields just won his first Tony at 73. Here are 5 facts on his epic career | Los Angeles Times
Makeda Easter, Los Angeles Times ANDRE DE SHIELDS. Photo by Lia Chang. Featured Image [dropcap]Mr.[/dropcap] André De Shields capped a 50-year acting career by scoring his first Tony Award on Sunday, winning best featured actor in a musical for his role as Hermes in “Hadestown.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It’s been a long time coming. The 73-year-old […]
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Report: Wrongful convictions have stolen at least 20,000 years from innocent defendants | The Washington Post
The National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) will soon publish the second part of a study it commissioned of its database of all known false convictions in the United States since 1989. The NRE was kind enough to send me an advance copy. Among the highlights: * The 2,265 exonerees in the NRE database served a […]
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