Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post [dropcap]When[/dropcap] the Rev. Jaymes Robert Moody takes his pulpit to preach, sometimes he pictures the graveyard — that is where his congregation was born. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was called Georgia Cemetery, named, he has been told, for the place the enslaved were stolen from before being sent to work the […]
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How Black Artists Mobilized in 1970s Los Angeles | Hyperallergic
In a panel discussion, some of these artists look back on how African American arts professionals and Black-owned galleries exhibited their work and promoted their careers.
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How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism | Slate
On a walking tour of the New Orleans Garden District, my husband and I exchanged meaningful glances after the fourth or fifth time our guide delicately referred to the slaves who once worked in those elegant old homes as “servants.” To our ears, the reference was absurdly, offensively inapt, as if those enslaved people had […]
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World’s Largest Museum dedicated to Black Civilizations opens in Senegal | Shoppe Black
After 52 years of waiting, Senegal is finally opening what has been described as the largest museum of Black civilization in the capital, Dakar. With close to 14,000 square metres of floor space and capacity for 18,000 exhibits, the new Museums of Black Civilizations is already capable of competing with the National Museum of African […]
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The Racial Bias Built Into Photography | The New York Times
Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.
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Americans are totally fine with reparations, just not for slavery | Quartz
Annalisa Merelli, Quartz [dropcap]Since[/dropcap] the second half of last century, countries like Germany, Austria, France, South Africa, and Canada have amended past wrongs by paying reparations to their victims. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The US, too, has supported reparations as a form of restorative justice. After World War II, it supported Jewish victims of the Holocaust in […]
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[WATCH] The Powerful Trailer For Ava Duvernay’s ‘When They See Us’ Is Here | Essence
“When They See Us” will be available to stream on Netflix beginning May 31.
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Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism | People’s World
Tony Pecinovsky, People’s World Paul Robeson, Trafalgar Square, London, June 1959, ullstein bild/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Gerald[/dropcap] Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with the newly published biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though not as widely known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X […]
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Harlem street renamed in honor of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis | New York Amsterdam News
AMNews Staff, New York Amsterdam News Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis with their children, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] northeast corner of 123rd Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem now bears the names of famed acting and civil rights couple Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Dwyer Cultural Center hosted the ceremonial unveiling of […]
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Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records Released | Smithsonian
Volunteer Indexing Effort of 4 Million Freed-Slave Records Launched on Juneteenth
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