Ade Adeniji, Inside Philanthropy [dropcap]Throughout[/dropcap] most of my (still relatively) young writer’s lifetime, Oprah Winfrey loomed large as the pinnacle of black American financial success. The 64-year-old Oprah recently denied presidential bid rumors on the heels of a rousing speech, and stars in the new Disney film A Wrinkle in Time, opening this week. Oprah […]
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Yes, African-Americans Drink Bourbon. You’d Never Know It From the Marketing. | The New York Times
Groups like the Black Bourbon Society have formed to share an appreciation of the whiskey, and distillers are finally starting to pay attention.
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The ‘Brown Babies’ who were left behind | BBC
When Babs Gibson-Ward was born in 1944, her mother’s navy officer husband did not question whether he was her father. “He honestly believed I was his child, I think because my complexion at that time was very fair. It took six months for it to change,” she said. She was one of 2,000 mixed race […]
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A powerful moment for the Archibald prize: could a portrait of a black woman win? | The Guardian
Only 15 paintings of women and three of non-white Australians have been Archibald winners in 97 years
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Ebola death toll in Congo to pass 1,000, World Health Organization warns | The Guardian
Women and children fare worst as efforts to contain outbreak are undermined by health centre attacks and local mistrust.
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NY Metropolitan Opera to Hire All-Black Chorus for Fall Revival of “Porgy And Bess” | Good Black News
Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Good Black News UNITED STATES – CIRCA 1939: African American Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images). Featured Image [dropcap]According[/dropcap] to washingtonpost.com, The Metropolitan Opera in New York plans to hire an all-Black outside chorus for its first presentation in nearly thirty years of ”Porgy and Bess,” which opens […]
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Sweet Home Cafe | Atlas Obscura
This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
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These Extraordinary Shirts Define Black Pride | Buzzfeed
Treye Green, Buzzfeed Naomi Wadler talks about gun violence at a Smithsonian Institution event on December 7. (Erin Schaff; Lily illustration), Featured Image We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. Oh, and FYI — […]
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Nnedi Okorafor Is Creating a TV Series Company for Africanfuturist Stories | Brittle Paper
Nnedi Okorafor is creating a TV series company for Africanfuturist stories. The multi-awarded novelist revealed this on Facebook via a post on 16 April. The company’s name is Africanfuturism Productions, Inc. In a reply to a comment by the writer and University of Manchester lecturer Geoff Ryman, she wrote: “TV series are my focus right […]
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How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All | Smithsonian.com
Historian Martha S. Jones takes a look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage
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