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Flint Launches Program to Help Kids Who Need Special Education Services Because of Water Crisis | Colorlines

January 24, 2019March 23, 2019KOLUMN Magazine, WRIIT Export

Experts say it’s a step in the right direction, but not enough.

Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ | The New York Times

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

The Oscar-winning artist behind “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Moonlight” grapples with the spotlight, with advice from Denzel Washington and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ | The Atlantic

January 22, 2019January 17, 2022African American History, Black History ...

“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”

The Consequences of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Canonization | The Atlantic

January 22, 2019January 18, 2021KOLUMN Magazine

The civil-rights leader is now celebrated as a modern founding father, a celebration that gives those who oppose his policy agenda a claim to his legacy.

Florida Pardons the Groveland Four, 70 Years After Jim Crow-Era Rape Case | The New York Times

January 15, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The Jim Crow-era case attracted widespread attention in 1949. Shortly after the rape was reported, mobs of white residents set fire to homes and property belonging to black families in the Groveland area.

LISTEN: Nina Simone’s Ode to ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ Children Still Matters | Colorlines

January 15, 2019African American Activist, African American History ...

Meshell Ndegeocello and Somi discuss the enduring importance of Simone’s 1969 tribute to Black youth for NPR’s American Anthem series.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers | AFRO

January 11, 2019African American History, Black History ...

“The Transatlantic slave trade … for 400 years deprived Africa of its lifeblood for centuries and transformed the world forever.”

50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders | The New York Times [Lens]

January 10, 2019January 22, 2019African American Activist, African American History ...

Maurice Berger, The New York Times Gloria Bouknight, at 20 years old, and at 74 in 2015. While living in New York City, she discovered the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, on a visit to Harlem, and became an active member. Since then, she started a business representing European designers in the United States, […]

Angela Davis Says She’s ‘Stunned’ After Award Is Revoked Over Her Views on Israel | The New York Times

January 10, 2019African American Activist, African History ...

Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times [dropcap]Angela[/dropcap] Davis, the activist and scholar, said this week that she was “stunned” after a civil rights group in her native Birmingham, Ala., reversed its decision to honor her with an award amid protests over her support for a boycott of Israel. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Professor Davis, once a global […]

From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism | The Washington Informer

January 9, 2019African American History, African History ...

Decades ago, civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who now serves a president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, coined the term “environmental racism.” It not only proved a true term, but it also linked several eras to a present day that still harkens back to centuries of demeaning and demoralization of Black Americans since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade 500 years ago.