Eric Arnold, KQED The Lumpen, the Panthers’ singing group, performs at the boycott of Bill’s Liquors, Oakland, 1971. Clark Bailey, known as Santa Rita, is dancing. Michael Torrence (front) and James Mott (back) are drumming. (Courtesy of itsabouttime.com), Featured Image [dropcap]Saturu[/dropcap] Ned claims he once changed Tupac Shakur’s diaper before going on stage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
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Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says | The New York Times
Liam Stack, The New York Times Most hate groups in the United States, including the Ku Klux Klan, espouse some form of white supremacist ideology, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.CreditCreditAndrea Morales for The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] number of hate groups in the United States rose for the fourth year in […]
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This Little Girl Recreated Iconic Album Covers For Black History Month And She Seriously NAILED It | BuzzFeed
“I hope we ensure that our children have pride and self-love and love the color of their skin and the texture of their hair.”
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These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell | Time
John Edwin Mason, Time Photographs by Wayne Miller—Magnum Photos. Featured Image [dropcap]There[/dropcap] are many ways to photograph a black person, and it’s easy for things to go horribly wrong. America’s long history of racist imagery makes that quite clear. Wayne Miller, a white man, was notable for doing it right. In the mid-20th century, a […]
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Black Women in the Labor Movement Have Long Defended American Workers | Teen Vogue
No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.
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Remembering Bayard Rustin 50 Years After the Stonewall Uprising | NYU Local
“We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.”
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BHM: “Ain’t I A Woman?” The Life and Legacy of Abolitionist and Activist Sojourner Truth | 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]It’s[/dropcap] February 1st, which means it is now officially Black History Month! Although we here at Good Black News celebrate the achievements of Black people every day of the year, […]
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10 incredible black women you should know about | CNN
Christina Maxouris, CNN “Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president,” said Claudette Colvin, who before Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Featured Image (CNN)Black history is American history. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It’s easy to say. But while most grade school teachers agree […]
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Washington Post’s first black female reporter: Newsrooms still aren’t diverse enough | Perspective | The Inquirer, Philly.com
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, For the Inquirer, The Inquirer, Philly.com Dorothy Butler Gilliam in the fall of 1961 or early in 1962, soon after having arrived at The Washington Post. (Harry Naltchayan / Washington Post). Featured Image [dropcap]When[/dropcap] I first walked into the Washington Post newsroom in 1961 as its first black female reporter, I felt […]
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Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters review – devastating beauty from banjo supergroup | The Guardian
Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah have joined forces to confront the abuse of African American women with authority and pride
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