BY Petula Dvorak PUB The Washington Post [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]The fourth time around, it doesn’t get any easier to bury a son lost to gun violence.[/perfectpullquote]Phyllis Gray is 53 and tired. Tired of the calls, tired of the funerals, tired of T-shirts with the faces of four dead sons. Tired of no […]
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Jamaica, Long Opposed to Marijuana, Now Wants to Cash In on It
Jamaica has long bemoaned its reputation as the land of ganja.
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American Honey Is a New Indie Classic
Andrea Arnold’s new film follows a crew of young drifters through the recession-struck heartland.
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Rose Library Opens African American Art Exhibit
A multimedia exhibition of African American art titled “Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch,” opened Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
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Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November
New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
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The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’
Njideka Akunyili Crosby was 16 before she took her first art class. She talks about why most of the figures in her paintings appear to be doing nothing at all, Mean Girls at Yale, and the debt she owes Harlem’s Studio Museum
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We Celebrate Black Culture One Minute, and Crush Black Lives The Next
Poet Claudia Rankine’s ‘genius grant’ win is a victory for African Americans. But there’s something devastating about the context in which it was awarded
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100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945)
This influential memoir of a rebellious southern boyhood vividly evokes the struggle for African American identity in the decades before civil rights
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A Social-Justice Agenda for Community College
Eloy Oakley sees expanding access to traditionally underserved communities as an economic imperative for the state and nation.
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‘I Felt My Blackness Being Chipped Away Bit by Bit’
My colleague Ta-Nehisi spoke last night with French journalist Iris Deroeux about his time living in Paris and more broadly about race in France compared to the U.S.:
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