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Photos That Challenge Stereotypes About African-American Youths

July 22, 2016African American Photography, Community ...

The photographs in the new book “Picturing Children” affirm that kids will be kids: They study. They play. They interact with family. But those lives are often overshadowed by prejudice and preconceptions.

Mychal Denzel Smith Connects the Black Millennial Experience to the African-American Literary Tradition

July 22, 2016African American Art, African American Literature ...

Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching. A Young Black Man’s Education

Mother Emanuel-inspired Exhibition Closes This Sunday

July 21, 2016July 21, 2016African American Art, African American Church ...

The Passages Artists Collective seeks a permanent home for African-American artists

New Ava DuVernay Doc to Explore Racial Inequality’s Impact on Mass Incarceration: ‘Our Population Has Been Demonized’

July 21, 2016December 4, 2016African American Art, African American Film ...

Ava DuVernay will make history when her documentary exploring mass incarceration and racial inequality opens this year’s New York Film Festival.

Infamous Mothers: A New Vision

July 21, 2016June 20, 2022African American Literature, African American Photography ...

Infamous Mothers presents its first installment in a series of coffee table books celebrating the stories of African-American mothers from Chicago who have gone on such journeys, bringing back extraordinary gifts.

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.”