By Daniel B. Schwartz, TIME Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so. Beforehand, the term was primarily associated with Jewish urban quarters, and […]
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EXCLUSIVE: How This Woman Became the Youngest Black McDonald’s Owner in the U.S. | Black Enterprise
By Kemberley Washington, CPA,Black Enterprise Jade Colin made headlines earlier this month when The Black Professional broke the news that she held the title of the youngest black owner of a McDonald’s in company history. Colin acquired her franchise after working at her family’s McDonald’s straight out of college and then completing the restaurant chain’s […]
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When a black-owned funeral home in a gentrifying city has no one left to bury | The Washington Post
By Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post The thick, dusty ledgers were scattered about the cluttered office, 18 of them, their pages filled with neat script documenting the deaths of thousands of black Washingtonians over the course of a half-century. Open a volume to Page 123 and there is Lawrence Monroe Ryles, 39, a “colored” […]
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Chance the Rapper Opens Up About Meeting His Wife at 9 Years Old: ‘Let’s Get Married!’ | People
“I saw her dancing and I was like, ‘Let’s get married!'” the artist recalled
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Locked out of L.A.’s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homeless | Los Angeles Times
By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked out of other neighborhoods by racial covenants. His stepfather worked at Lockheed Martin to support the family […]
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Harlem’s oldest resident is also America’s oldest — Alelia Murphy feted on her 114th birthday | New York Daily News
Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News Alelia Murphy celebrates her 114th birthday at the Harlem State Office Building in Manhattan on Friday. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News). Featured Image [dropcap]At[/dropcap] age 114, Alelia Murphy has living yet to do. Wearing a tiara, yellow suit and a smile, Murphy celebrated her birthday in Harlem on […]
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Where Does Your State Rank When It Comes to Black Homicide? | Colorlines
A new study ranks states according to the number of Black teens and adults killed.
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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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‘I’m either too black or not black enough’: One teenager’s experience | BBC News
Aries Brown, BBC News Illustration by Debie Loizou. [Reuters], Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] article was written by Aries Brown, an 18-year-old African-American student at an international school in eastern Europe. It was originally written for her school newspaper, and has been reprinted with her permission, and that of her school. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Coming here for my […]
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Natalie And Derrica Wilson Are Dedicated To Finding America’s ‘Black And Missing’ | HuffPost
“If not us, who will do it?” asked Natalie Wilson.
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