CLEVELAND — When Lesley Green was a little girl in Houston in the 1960s — just a few decades after the routine lynchings of blacks in the South — her father would go off to work a late-night shift and leave a gun and a pile of bullets behind. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] If any strangers came […]
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South Sudanese Model Adut Akech Wins Model of the Year at 2019 British Fashion Awards | OkayAfrica
The 19-year-old model spoke about the need for increased representation in the fashion world during her acceptance speech.
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The Myth Was $150,000 in Fraud. The Real Story Is More Interesting. | The New York Times
The woman behind a pernicious and racist myth didn’t represent anyone or anything but her own striking criminal enterprise.
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The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’ | The Daily Beast
The children’s television show entranced preschoolers—and helped teach impressionable black kids.
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7 High-End Black Designers To Purchase Your Next Luxury Item From | Essence
You’ll easily dismiss Gucci and Prada, thanks to the style and leaders of these brands.
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Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism | People’s World
Tony Pecinovsky, People’s World Paul Robeson, Trafalgar Square, London, June 1959, ullstein bild/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Gerald[/dropcap] Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with the newly published biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though not as widely known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X […]
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Her ancestors fled to Mexico to escape slavery 170 years ago. She still sings in English to this day. | The Washington Post
She is proof of how complicated migration between the United States and Mexico can be: An 86-year-old black woman, sitting in her home in northern Mexico, singing hymns in English. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Lucia Vazquez Valdez is the descendant of African Americans who fled the prospect of slavery in the United States for Mexico in the […]
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Harlem street renamed in honor of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis | New York Amsterdam News
AMNews Staff, New York Amsterdam News Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis with their children, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] northeast corner of 123rd Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem now bears the names of famed acting and civil rights couple Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Dwyer Cultural Center hosted the ceremonial unveiling of […]
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Kamala Harris proposes big new middle-class tax break | Politico
Sen. Kamala Harris, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, today proposed a big new tax break for average Americans.
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