It came out in 1968—yet little has changed since the Kerner Commission denounced “white racism.”
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‘Atlanta’ Explores The Unshakeable Intimacy Between A Man And His Barber | Huffington Post
Black men don’t really have images that reflect the beauty of their hair on mainstream TV.
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Tuesdays in the Newsroom Visits Inkwell Beach and Oak Bluffs Summers | Vineyard Gazette
“We never had to go out of our circle, and because of the richness of the circle we never wanted to.”
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Black Hair’s Blockbuster Moment | The New York Times
Despite and perhaps because of a surge in white supremacist language in the United States, a wave of black cultural resistance is flooding the arts as well as the streets.
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What’s your Black Joy? | The Black Joy Parade
The Black Joy Parade exists to provide the Black community and allies a live experience that celebrates our influence on cultures past, present and future.
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The Harmful Effect That Flawed Manhood Constructs Are Having On The Lives Of Some Black Males. | Thy Black Man
“…prisoners held within self-imposed walls that hold their innate genius and vast potential hostage”
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Black People Need More Representation And Fewer ‘Representatives’ | Huffington Post
There’s a difference between having representation and having representatives.
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New Studies Find That Positive Feelings About Blackness Improve Academic Performance for Black Girls | The Root
“We found that feeling positive about being Black, and feeling support and belonging at school, may be especially important for African-American girls’ classroom engagement and curiosity…”
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Eloquent Photo-portraits of 60 Contemporary Artists of Color | Hyperallergic
Elia Alba’s photo-portraits act as a kind of measure of the intimacy she has earned with her subjects.
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Creative Souls | Truthdig
African American artists have made powerful and enduring contributions to this development for many decades, yet their work still remains less visible than that of their white colleagues and contemporaries of comparable talent and achievement.
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