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If Black Men Want to Heal Racism’s Wounds, We Can’t Pretend to Be Strong All the Time

July 21, 2016Uncategorized

We’re proud that we’ve survived. But we should be honest about the costs.

The Route Of Division

July 21, 2016Community, Culture ...

In Birmingham, Alabama, a public bus takes about a dozen housekeepers from their low-income, mostly black neighborhood to a wealthy white suburb. These are the only stops the city bus makes; these are virtually the only people who ride it.

How Do I Connect With Kin of My Ancestor’s Slave Owners?

July 20, 2016Ancestry, Community ...

Tracing Your Roots: Questions about the family who enslaved a headline-making ancestor and how to connect with their descendants.

Jerry Pinkney’s Illustrated World, An Escape from a Nation in Conflict

July 20, 2016African American Art, Art ...

To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, and our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.

UT Professor Tackles Sordid Tale of 1880s Dismemberment

July 20, 2016African American Art, Literature ...

University of Texas professor Kali Nicole Gross has a homicidal maniac as her muse — and that led her to write “Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America.”

Curly-centric Hair Salon Teaches Dominican Women to Love Their Pajón

July 20, 2016Beauty, Caribbean ...

Miss Rizos uses African and African-American hairstyles to affirm blackness in straight-hair-obsessed country.

‘Balm’: A D.C. Writer’s Moving Tale of Hope and Healing in Slavery’s Wake

July 19, 2016Art, History ...

In 2011, Washington writer Dolen Perkins-Valdez published “Wench,” an unsparing look at the brutal relationships between Southern plantation owners and the slaves they kept as mistresses.