After learning about a little-known Black football player who integrated the NFL, a New York fifth grade class started a petition demanding that Kenny Washington be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Caribbean Memory Project Crowdsources Family Histories to Preserve Region’s Cultural Heritage
So you missed out on all those talks with your grandparents about what the good old days were like — or perhaps you’re curious about your family’s past and how you ended up in the Caribbean.
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Following the Trail of Vermont’s African American Heritage
If you think about black history in America, Vermont is probably not the first place that comes to mind.
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Being Black at America’s Elite Public High Schools
Martin Luther King Day in January—a day set aside to honor a man who fought against racial injustice—two black students at Boston Latin School (BLS) launched a social-media campaign to expose the racially hostile school climate they say exists at America’s first and oldest existing public school.
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A Crumbling, Dangerous South Side Creates Exodus of Black Chicagoans
With its big old homes and apartments, four grocery stores and doctors’ offices, South Shore had all kinds of residents — laborers, city workers, artists, businessmen and executives — raising their families side by side.
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State Replaces Cell With Classroom In New Effort To Reduce Recidivism
Inmates are trading bars for books in a new program designed to ease their reentry into civilian life.
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Chicago Celebrates Playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s Life
Born on Thursday, May 19 in Chicago she is most known for writing ‘A Raisin in Sun’ which opened on Broadway garnishing great success and later becoming a feature film.
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Brooklyn Panel To Discuss ‘The African-American Inheritance Crisis’
When her grandmother was hospitalized with a stroke, relatives became divided over her care and estate, partly due to planning discussions they failed to have, she said.
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A Black American Artist Explores Her Refusal of Christianity
“Direct Downward Cut at the Head; Overhand Knife Thrust”; “and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped”; “To them God has appeared as a Negro”; “syntactical slips and breaks”
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The Man Who Put Marvel In The Black
Movie theaters had air conditioning. So when those dry, 110-degree Clovis summers hit, that’s where Nate Moore and his three siblings would be. At the movies.
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