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Tracee Ellis Ross Wants Us to Celebrate the ‘PATTERN’ of Our Natural Hair | Black Enterprise

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton, Black Enterprise Image Credit, FacebookFeatured Image [dropcap]Add[/dropcap] haircare entrepreneur to the many titles that define Tracee Ellis Ross. She announced, via Twitter and Instagram, the launch of her new product line, PATTERN, which debuts Sept. 9. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “Thrilled to introduce PATTERN // my new hair care brand specifically for curly, […]

Lupita Nyong’o On Why Her New Children’s Book Is The Tribute To Melanin Magic She Needed | xoNecole

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019Colorism, KINDR'D ...

The Hollywood starlet transformed her negative self-image into a positive one.

White women were colonisers too. To move forward, we have to stop letting them off the hook | The Guardian

August 30, 2019August 16, 2020African American History, Black History ...

We will never understand the impact of colonial oppression if we underestimate white women’s role in it, writes Ruby Hamad

Thirty years later, Yusuf Hawkins’ murder still shocks in a changed Brooklyn | The City

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Clifford Michel, The City, The City A memorial for Yusuf Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Aug. 22, 2019. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY. Featured Image [dropcap]Until[/dropcap] this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the African-American 16-year-old who was set upon by a mob of […]

Four Black Men Were Freed From Death Row. Republicans Put Them Back. | The New York Times

August 25, 2019November 13, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear a case next week that’s a matter of life or death for some inmates.

Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough | The Guardian

August 22, 2019November 15, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The historian on how he confronted his own racism and the lessons he learned along the way, the far right’s abuse of free speech, and why the rise of the Squad gives him hope

A white nationalist killed a black coach 20 years ago. The horror changed his friend forever. | Indy Star

August 12, 2019November 20, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

INDIANAPOLIS – It’s been 20 years, and Shawn Parrish still doesn’t understand. How could someone kill Ricky Byrdsong? “He was a great man,” Parrish said. “You don’t really think about knowing someone who gets murdered.” It was 4:30 in the morning on July 2, 1999 when Parrish was awakened by a phone call. It was […]

The Woman Who Beat The Klan | The New York Times

August 7, 2019August 15, 2020African American History, Black History ...

By Jesse Kornbluth, The New York Times About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or […]