Tag: Willoughby Avenue

Meet 7 Black Women Entrepreneurs Who Run Successful Businesses You Need To Know About | Essence

#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs ...

From assistance with collecting child support payments to jewelry that relieves hot flashes, these Black-owned brands provide invaluable services. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Day 2 of the ESSENCE + New Voices Entrepreneur Summit and Target Holiday Market featured a dynamic panel discussion moderated by ESSENCE UnBossed ESSENCE Podcast host Marquita Harris, who spoke with several successful women […]

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Don’t Try This at Home | The New York Times

African American Entertainment, African American History

How the Nicholas Brothers became America’s foremost tap-dancers. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Most jazz tap-dancers stand up and dance. The Nicholas Brothers did that — and then they flew, catapulting themselves over each other’s heads, step by step down a staircase, or running up a wall and uncoiling backward into thin air. Perhaps you’ve seen them on […]

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Finally Recognizes Woman Who Practically Invented Rock and Roll | Jezebel

African American Music, KOLUMN Magazine

This year’s inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, and they have finally gotten around to adding Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who’s got a pretty good claim to having invented that shit. She got her credit the same year as Dire Straits and Bon Jovi. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Wall Street Journal […]

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Possible mass grave from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre found by researchers | NBC News

African American History

Experts in Oklahoma believe they found a mass grave site from the deadly race riots, recently recreated in HBO’s “Watchmen.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Experts at the University of Oklahoma believe they have found a possible mass grave site from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre at a city cemetery, although they are unsure how many bodies are […]

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The Republican Party’s “Racism Problem” (Rebroadcast) | 1A WAMU 88.5

African American Politics, African American Vote ...

Michael Steele made history when he became the first African-American chair of the Republican National Convention in 2009. Steele served in that role until 2011 and he likely wasn’t expecting to make headlines while in attendance at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Then, this happened at the event’s annual […]

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Freed from prison nine years ago, Brandon Flood is new secretary of Pa.’s pardon board | Will Bunch | The Philadelphia Inquirer

Criminal Justice Reform, Mass Incarceration

This column will probably come as something of a shock to all the people in Harrisburg who only know Brandon Flood – a bow-tied, bespectacled policy wonk with sartorial flair – as the persona that he laughingly calls “Urkel Brandon,” in a homage to one of TV’s most famous nerds. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Flood, now 36, […]

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Afromexicans: The invisible people of Mexico | Matador Network

Afro Latina, Afromexican

THE PRESENCE OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY might be one of the main reasons millions of tourists flock to Mexico each year. Ancient architecture, food, spiritual rituals, colorful textiles, traditional medicine — these are only some of expressions we can learn about from the Mayas, Zapotecs, Tarahumaras, Nahuas and other indigenous communities who currently reside in Mexican […]

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Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important? | History Extra

African American History, Black History

Kidnapped, torn from his family as a child, and sold as a slave, Olaudah Equiano’s story would become a bestseller of its time, and a catalyst for the abolition of slavery in Britain. Jonny Wilkes explores his story for BBC History Revealed [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Somewhere on the coast of what is now Nigeria, 11-year-old Olaudah […]

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