More than a century ago, a small cohort of African-American classical music lovers desperately wanted to hear a touring group from the Metropolitan Opera sing during a rare Atlanta performance. As the story goes, the group considered dressing up as servants to slip into the segregated concert.
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Gwen Ifill, Journalist and Debate Moderator, Dies at 61
Gwen Ifill, an award-winning television journalist for NBC and PBS, former reporter for The New York Times and author who moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died on Monday in Washington. She was 61.
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The Fate of the Undocumented Teachers for America
The nearly 150 educators who secured legal employment through DACA wonder if Donald Trump will end their time in the classroom.
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Three African American Civil War vets to be relocated, buried at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery
Three Cumberland County men who died after serving our country were buried in the forgotten remnants of an overgrown cemetery, their stories lost in the woods and in the pages of history.
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Five Ways To Honor Our Nation’s Black Heroes This Veterans Day | HuffPost
We owe the 2.7 million African American veterans in the U.S. a great debt.
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Artists Respond with Devastation, Then Determination, to the Election of Donald Trump
The shock after Donald Trump’s election has turned to anger and determination, a galvanizing desire to fight for change and a better world than the one the President-elect plans to create.
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The Audacity of Hopelessness
Throughout this election cycle I was confident of a Hillary Clinton victory because she is eminently qualified for the presidency and she ran a strong campaign.
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Newly Elected U.S. Senator Kamala Harris Is a Woman to Watch
If there is a light at the end of the tunnel after last night’s devastating presidential election outcome, then it surely comes in the form of Kamala Harris.
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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Poor Americans
They didn’t vote for this. Richer Americans did.
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Retrospective: The Latest News in Black Art – Theaster Gates Starts Apprentice Program, Rodney McMillian Wins Austin Art Prize
This week, Theaster Gates announced a groundbreaking apprenticeship program to provide training for local residents through his Rebuild Foundation in Chicago; Rodney McMillian received an important inaugural art prize; and a number of African American artists were honored at galas and benefit dinners.
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