The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and that is already beginning to have profound social and political implications.
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Do the right thing – how black cinema rose again
The late 80s and 90s heralded a breakthrough led by Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood. At first, Hollywood embraced this wave of talent, then it ignored it. Now, in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, black films matter once more.
View MoreJackie’s son impacting lives in Tanzania
David Robinson forging own path in coffee, community development
View MoreU.S. suspends deportations to Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
The United States is temporarily suspending deportations of Haitians after Hurricane Matthew wreaked havoc on the Caribbean island.
View MoreCholera outbreaks in Haiti follow devastation of Hurricane Matthew
Haiti was counting the cost of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Matthew on Saturday night, with almost 900 inhabitants killed and tens of thousands displaced in the Caribbean country.
View MoreIn Haiti, a City’s Race Into the 21st Century Is Ruined by a Hurricane
Things had been looking up in Jérémie, a coastal city marooned on the tip of Haiti’s southern peninsula. It had recently gotten its first decent road link to the rest of the country, a new highway through the rugged mountains that brought development.
View More‘I don’t scare easily’: A 94-year-old judge’s refusal to bow to Racism, Death Threats
Long before federal judge Damon Keith became known as a “crusader for justice,” he was a new Howard University School of Law graduate working as a janitor while he studied for the bar exam.
View MoreTito Puente Jr on the African Origins of Latin Jazz
El Barrio Latin Jazz Festival happens every year in Harlem to celebrate the birthplace of Latin Jazz Music and to commemorate its king, the late Tito Puente.
View More‘Living Abroad While Black Is Tough’
Readers share their experiences of being a black expat in a part of the world that doesn’t quite know what to make of them.
View MoreCondoleezza Rice Calls On Donald Trump To Drop Out Of The Race
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broke her silence on the presidential election on Saturday and called on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to end his campaign.
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