The ‘Moonlight’ director is making his return to the big screen with an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel.
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How to Win Elections in a System ‘Not Set Up for Us’ | The Atlantic
The Collective PAC’s Black Campaign School is backed by—and a challenge to—the Democratic establishment. It’s trying to increase representation in a country where 90 percent of all elected officials are white.
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How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History | Smithsonian Magazine
More than 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion
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The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation | The New York Times
THE NEW NEGRO The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C. Stewart 932 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. Alain LeRoy Locke’s drive to revolutionize black culture was fueled in no small part by his sense of self-importance. “When a man has something to be conceited over,” he wrote, “I call it self-respect.” Unlike many of […]
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Octavia Spencer-Led Series on Madam C.J. Walker Coming to Netflix | Colorlines
The beauty mogul built a hair care empire and became the first Black female millionaire.
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Opinion: How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | The New York Times
Its worst offenses may be that it rendered nearly invisible the black women who labored in the suffragist vineyard and that it looked away from the racism that tightened its grip on the fight for the women’s vote in the years after the Civil War.
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The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. | The New Yorker
Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which is playing at Metrograph from Friday through Sunday (it’s also on DVD and streaming), is a political fiction, based on a novel by Sam Greenlee, about the first black man in the C.I.A.
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Art installation honors African-American military role during Civil War | The DC Line
Museum’s 20th anniversary celebration highlights art’s role in highlighting historical understanding.
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Black female pilot makes history in Alabama National Guard | Stars & Stripes
Freeman’s aviator wings were pinned by retired Col. Christine Knighton, the second black woman in the Department of Defense to earn aviator wings and the first from Georgia.
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Ida B. Wells gets her street — City Council approves renaming Congress in her honor | Chicago Tribune
Chicago’s City Council officially renamed Congress Parkway to Ida B. Wells Drive Wednesday, making the prominent east-west artery the first downtown street named for a woman of color and honoring one of the city’s great activists.
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