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Africa’s last three monarchies and why they remain standing | Face2Face Africa

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

Monarchies in Africa can be categorized into two, sovereign or absolute monarchies and sub-traditional monarchies. Sovereign monarchies are kings who rule over the state with absolute political power while sub-traditional monarchies are kings ruling and controlling subjects in communities, towns, chiefdoms or kingdoms without absolute power. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Before now in Africa, kings had absolute […]

Exploding Myths About ‘Black Power, Jewish Politics’ | NPR

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

Many Americans tell the story of Black-Jewish political relations like this: First, there was the Civil Rights movement, where the two groups got along great. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] This was the mid-1950s to the mid-60s — picture Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marching arm-in-arm from Selma to Montgomery. And James Chaney, […]

Teen Entrepreneur Celebrates 10 Years in Business, Lemonade Distribution in 1,500 Supermarkets | Black Enterprise

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs

She started a business that went from a single lemonade stand to the shelves of 1,500 supermarkets across the country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] 1,500 supermarkets She walked off Shark Tank with a $60,000 investment and Daymond John as a mentor. She speaks at business conferences all across the world—this year alone she presented in Budapest and […]

Truck Driver Launches Website To Help Travelers Find Black Owned Restaurants | We Buy Black

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020African American Cuisine

Truck drivers spend a lot of time on the road and the meal options can be hit or miss. The simple act (seemingly) of finding a seasoned piece of meat can turn into an adventure, when you’re away from home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Edward Dillard has been a truck driver for almost 15 years and in […]

The Snowy Day is Amazon’s beautiful, hopeful addition to television Christmas specials | The Verge

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Literature, Black Books

On Thanksgiving, Amazon quietly published its contribution to the Christmas canon. The Snowy Day is an adaptation of the award-winning 1962 children’s picture book of the same name, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Odds are you’ve seen the book, or had it read to you. Its cover art, with a tiny […]

Pardons for the Wilmington 10 | The New York Times

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

Before leaving office next month, Gov. Bev Perdue of North Carolina should finally pardon the Wilmington 10, a group of civil rights activists who were falsely convicted and imprisoned in connection with a racial disturbance in the city of Wilmington more than 40 years ago. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The convictions, based on flimsy evidence and perjured […]

Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened | The New York Times

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Athletes, African American Icon

Fifty years ago this week, “Buck White” opened, and very quickly closed. What does this footnote to theater history still have to tell us? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] So, as the sportscaster Howard Cosell used to ask great boxers: What went wrong out there, champ? When the stage musical “Buck White” opened at the George Abbott Theater […]

The Magnolia House used to be a decades-old passion project for one man. Now, someone else shares that dream — his daughter. | Greensboro.com

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019African American History, Black History

GREENSBORO — Natalie Pass Miller loved her life in Atlanta working for the corporate sector. While on a visit back home in 2018, a casual conversation with her dad changed everything. Sam Pass, at one time a fire and safety specialist at Duke University, had spent the past two decades of his off time meticulously […]

‘The Slaves Dread New Year’s Day the Worst’: The Grim History of January 1 | Time

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Americans are likely to think of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as a time to celebrate the fresh start that a new year represents, but there is also a troubling side to the holiday’s history. In the years before the Civil War, the first day of the new year was often a heartbreaking […]

The Norfolk 17 face a hostile reception as schools reopen | The Virginian-Pilot

December 31, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Three weeks later than originally scheduled, Norfolk schools were finally ready to open. Well, most of them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Sept. 29, 1958, 48 of Norfolk’s schools welcomed students – but the doors of six were padlocked and under police guard. Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs remained […]