Carmen Phillips, Remezcla TAYLOR JEWELL/INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK, Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods, opening this weekend, Tessa Thompson plays Ollie, a woman trying to survive the last few days of her probation after getting caught illegally selling prescription pills in a rural North Dakota town on the Canadian border. When Ollie’s younger sister, Deb (Lily James), […]
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Black Women Artists Stage a Performative Dinner at the Art Gallery of Ontario | Hyperallergic
A Canadian museum expands exhibition programming and social events to more aptly reflect the range of artist communities.
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What Makes Someone Native American? | The Washington Post
In March 2012, Heather McMillan Nakai wrote a letter to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs asking the agency to verify that she was Indian. She was seeking a job at the Indian Health Service and wanted to apply with “Indian preference.” Nakai knew this might be difficult: As far as she was aware, no […]
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[WATCH] The Powerful Trailer For Ava Duvernay’s ‘When They See Us’ Is Here | Essence
“When They See Us” will be available to stream on Netflix beginning May 31.
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Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism | People’s World
Tony Pecinovsky, People’s World Paul Robeson, Trafalgar Square, London, June 1959, ullstein bild/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Gerald[/dropcap] Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with the newly published biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though not as widely known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X […]
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Harlem street renamed in honor of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis | New York Amsterdam News
AMNews Staff, New York Amsterdam News Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis with their children, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] northeast corner of 123rd Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem now bears the names of famed acting and civil rights couple Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Dwyer Cultural Center hosted the ceremonial unveiling of […]
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Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records Released | Smithsonian
Volunteer Indexing Effort of 4 Million Freed-Slave Records Launched on Juneteenth
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The All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele | Rolling Stone
How do you top a movie that shook Hollywood? The auteur behind ‘Get Out’ has a simple plan: Scare the hell out of you
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The O’Jays Give the People What They Want for the Last Time | Rolling Stone
After a lengthy breaking from recording, the group known for Seventies hits like “Back Stabbers” returned to the studio to make one final album
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F.B.I. Was Told That Militia in New Mexico Planned to Kill Obama and Clinton | The New York Times
Simon Romero, The New York Times [dropcap]LAS[/dropcap] CRUCES, N.M. — Before the F.B.I. arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of the right-wing militia that detained migrant families in the New Mexico desert, he’d had so many run-ins with the law that his police record stretched across much of the United States. Oregon police arrested him in […]
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