The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years
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Harlem’s mission to rename streets after black women before it’s too late | The Guardian
As an intersection is renamed in Zora Neale Hurston’s honor, historians are fighting to preserve the Harlem black elite’s legacy so residents will be mindful of who existed before them.
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James Baldwin: How To Cool It | Esquire
In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. On what would be the author’s 93rd birthday, we’ve republished the interview in full—and his words are incredibly relevant today.
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Arthur Ashe’s real legacy was his activism, not his tennis | The Guardian
We remember Ashe for his electrifying talent. But he had a social conscience that was way ahead of its time
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‘It’s hidden history’: the race to save one man’s collection of black Americana | The Guardian
From a slave’s collar to segregation signs, Oran Z has spent years collecting often shocking mementoes of America’s racial struggles. Now it all lies in shipping containers – and no institution will touch it
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Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas | The New York Times
An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.
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The Complicated Activism of Arthur Ashe | Politico
Fifty years after his U.S. Open win, the tennis player-turned-advocate offers a model for other athletes—and the rest of us, too.
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Thomas Allen Harris Goes Through a Lens Darkly | PBS.Org
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
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The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System | Smithsonian.com
White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial
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‘They wanted to jail us all’ – Black Panthers photographer Neil Kenlock looks back | The Guardian
From beauty pageants to burned-down pubs, Neil Kenlock spent decades capturing the struggles – and victories – of black Britain. Here he relives ‘some of the best years of my life’
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