Dean’s List: Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Focus on Collecting African-American Art | Art News

In May 2018, in a buzzing salesroom at Sotheby’s New York, the hammer fell on Kerry James Marshall’s Past Times (1997), a sprawling masterpiece that surveys a contemporary pastoral scene in which black figures are seen picnicking, boating, golfing, and playing croquet. Not long after, the price—$21.1 million, the highest figure for a work by […]

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Richard Hatcher, one of the nation’s first black mayors of a major city, dies at 86 | The Washington Post

Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first African American mayors of a large U.S. city when he was elected mayor of Gary, Ind., in 1967, died Dec. 13 at a Chicago hospital. He was 86. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] His death was announced by his daughter, state Rep. Ragen Hatcher, a Gary Democrat. The cause was […]

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‘Stop This Illegal Purge’: Outrage as Georgia GOP Removes More Than 300,000 Voters From Rolls | Common Dreams

Warning of 2020 impact, one critic said Georgia could remain a red state solely “due to the GOP purposefully denying people the right to vote.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A federal judge Monday night allowed Georgia to move ahead with a purge of over 300,000 voters deemed “inactive” by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, sparking outrage […]

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Review: A Brother and Sister Triumph Together at Carnegie Hall | The New York Times

The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason gave a superb New York recital debut alongside the pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Mexican territory and who are recognized by the Mexican state as groups with the right of free determination. This ‘right of free determination’ includes the right to decide the internal forms of social, economic, political, and cultural […]

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Meet 7 Black Women Entrepreneurs Who Run Successful Businesses You Need To Know About | Essence

From assistance with collecting child support payments to jewelry that relieves hot flashes, these Black-owned brands provide invaluable services. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Day 2 of the ESSENCE + New Voices Entrepreneur Summit and Target Holiday Market featured a dynamic panel discussion moderated by ESSENCE UnBossed ESSENCE Podcast host Marquita Harris, who spoke with several successful women […]

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Don’t Try This at Home | The New York Times

How the Nicholas Brothers became America’s foremost tap-dancers. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Most jazz tap-dancers stand up and dance. The Nicholas Brothers did that — and then they flew, catapulting themselves over each other’s heads, step by step down a staircase, or running up a wall and uncoiling backward into thin air. Perhaps you’ve seen them on […]

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Finally Recognizes Woman Who Practically Invented Rock and Roll | Jezebel

This year’s inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, and they have finally gotten around to adding Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who’s got a pretty good claim to having invented that shit. She got her credit the same year as Dire Straits and Bon Jovi. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Wall Street Journal […]

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Possible mass grave from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre found by researchers | NBC News

Experts in Oklahoma believe they found a mass grave site from the deadly race riots, recently recreated in HBO’s “Watchmen.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Experts at the University of Oklahoma believe they have found a possible mass grave site from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre at a city cemetery, although they are unsure how many bodies are […]

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