Lisa Speckhard Pasque, The Capital Times, AFRO Sabrina Madison, founder, at the Progress Center for Black Women in Fitchburg, Wis. — photos by Michelle Stocker/The Capital Times via AP, Featured Image [dropcap]MADISON[/dropcap], Wis. (AP) — It’s a Wednesday afternoon at Ford’s Gym, a “Rocky”-style gym filled with “regular old-school dudes,” Sabrina Madison says. That’s why […]
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She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi. | The New York Times
It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she has discovered testimony from someone who may have lived even longer — a woman named Redoshi. The new findings, published […]
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Education Department rejects nearly all applicants for a student loan forgiveness program | Los Angeles Times
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Los Angeles Times [dropcap]Tens[/dropcap] of thousands of public servants have applied to have their federal student loans forgiven through a temporary relief program run by the U.S. Education Department. Fewer than 300 have had success. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Now, one of the lawmakers who championed the initiative wants to know what happened. “We authorized […]
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Michael Brown’s Mother Loses City Council Race in Ferguson, Where Her Son Was Killed by Police | The New York Times
John Eligon, The New York Times Lesley McSpadden Getty Images, Featured Image [dropcap]Nearly[/dropcap] five years ago, Lesley McSpadden appeared distraught before the world after finding out that a grand jury had declined to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in the fatal shooting of her teenage son, Michael Brown, who was black. [mc4wp_form […]
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`Ni**er Is Not My Name’ | AFRO
Op-Ed: Dispatches From Baltiimore
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‘Black Farmers’ gear up for legal fight after appeals court setback | New York Amsterdam News
Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, Special to the New Tri-State Defender, New York Amsterdam News Photo by Mark Seliger, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Black Farmers and Agriculturalists (BFAA) recently hit a snag when the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, denied the group’s complaint against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
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An Artist Honors the Overlooked Activism of Black Women | Hyperallergic
Helina Metaferia’s exhibition By Way of Revolution connects histories of protest movements and acknowledges the overlooked labor of women within them.
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With ‘Black Panther’ and now ‘Us,’ Winston Duke is on a Roll | AFRO
Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer, AFRO Photographed By Erik Tanner, Featured Image [dropcap]LOS[/dropcap] ANGELES (AP) — Winston Duke went from relative obscurity to being a household name with his first film and he wasn’t even the lead, or second or third performer listed for that matter. That the first film in question was “Black Panther” […]
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Black Love Experience Takes Over THEARC | AFRO
George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer, AFRO [dropcap]The[/dropcap] line for the Black Love Experience event snaked back from the entrance and curved around a corner down Mississippi Avenue, S.E. Hundreds of people huddled the cool air waiting for their chance to get inside. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] You only have to step inside a few paces to […]
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Lesley McSpadden: Mike Brown’s Mother on Her Run for Ferguson City Council | Essence
As Ferguson voters head to the polls today, McSpadden talks to ESSENCE about legacy-building and creating change in the community she was destined to fight for.
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