One of the most artistic and daring political statements at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was the world premiere of Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House.
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The Forgotten Providers
Home-care workers are increasingly vital to the future of our health-care system, but the problems they face are rooted in a racist and sexist history.
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Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby | The New York Times Magazine
In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case.
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Black Lives Matter – Except Biram Dah Ould Abeid’s
Deafening silence greets Mauritanian anti-slavery activist’s three-year prison sentence.
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‘Allowing America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past’
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]‘ALLOWING AMERICA TO CONFRONT ITS TORTURED RACIAL PAST’ BY Clare Foran PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]How the National Museum of African American History and Culture recounts black history in the United States[/perfectpullquote]The Smithsonian Institution museums that dot the National Mall in Washington, D.C. […]
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‘Living in hell’? Milwaukee’s black residents defy Trump’s stereotypes
Photographer and writer Chris Arnade spent a week in one of the most segregated neighborhoods in Milwaukee, where 23-year-old Sylville Smith was shot by the police last August. Residents had a lot to say.
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To Be a Guerrilla, and a Woman, in Colombia
The country’s historic peace deal means thousands of female fighters are giving up their weapons. But what happens then?
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Report: African Americans Have Been ‘Locked Out’ of Home Ownership
The homeownership rate for African Americans is now lower than the national homeownership rate was during the 1930s, as the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression.
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On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race
Growing up here in the 1970s, in the shadow of Langley Research Center, where workers helped revolutionize air flight and put Americans on the moon, Margot Lee Shetterly had a pretty fixed idea of what scientists looked like: They were middle class, African-American and worked at NASA, like her dad.
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4 Artists From the New School of Sudanese Music Speak on Their Search for Home & Identity
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]4 ARTISTS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL OF SUDANESE MUSIC SPEAK ON THEIR SEARCH FOR HOME & IDENTITY BY Omnia Saed PHOTO Camilo Fuentealba PUB Okay Africa [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]Alsarah, Oddisee, Sinkane and Mo Kheir (of No Wyld)are some of the best musicians working and […]
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