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A Michigan Case Triggers Debate Over the Terminology for Female Genital Mutilation – Slate
Two weeks ago, an emergency-room doctor in Detroit was arrested for allegedly removing parts of two 7-year-old girls’ genitals. The federal criminal complaint alleges that Jumana Nagarwala, who has denied the charges, committed the crimes at a medical clinic in Livonia and may have victimized multiple other girls at the request of their parents.
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New Voices in Black Cinema at BAM April 26-30 – New York Amsterdam News
Wake up New York City. It’s film festival time and the power of the African and African-American creative voice is alive and well and just a MetroCard swipe away.
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A History of Blackness in American Cinema at MoMA – Hyperallergic
The series Making Faces on Film gathers daring and singular films about being black in the United States, from 1913 to today.
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Teaching Black Power at an HBCU and the Journey to Undo the Miseducation – Atlanta Black Star
This semester, at a historically Black college, I taught a course on African liberation movements that, in part, examined how such activism in Africa influenced Black Power across the globe.
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What happened to black Germans under the Nazis – Independent
Not all survivors have had equal opportunities to have their story heard in Holocaust commemorations.
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Finding the Lost Boyz of Chicago – The Atlantic
As part of our series with of interviews with the winners of the The Atlantic’s Renewal Awards, I spoke with LaVonte Stewart, the founder of Lost Boyz Inc., a baseball and softball program that steers children in his Chicago neighborhood away from violence through social-emotional development.
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In Photos: This Is What 1890s Jamaica Looked Like – Okay Africa
Making Jamaica, at London’s Autograph ABP, is an exhibition of archival images of Jamaica taken in 1891 by a Scottish maker of landscape photography.
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Painter Barkley L. Hendricks Dies at 72 – Hyperallergic
The artist, best known for his bold portraits of Black people, passed away early this morning.
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Law passes in NY mandating that police interrogations be recorded on video – New York Amsterdam News
All police questioning in major crimes must be recorded on video during the entire time that a suspect is in custody, under a law approved Monday by legislators in New York, according to an official with the Innocence Project.
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