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From Living in a Shelter after Hurricane Katrina to Launching a Successful Bow Tie Company | Shoppe Black

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs

Oakland, CA based designer, Rashima Sonson is the owner of SONSON®, a bow tie brand that offers unique bow ties made of African wax print fabric, lamb leather, pearls, and Swarovski stones. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In 2005, her life drastically changed from the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. After being displaced to Philadelphia and living in […]

The Horrible History of Thanksgiving | The New York Times

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019African American History

Before you fill your plate, please remember why we mark this day.

As Democrats lurch left, black Christians stand firm in their values | Washington Examiner

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African American Politics

Something remarkable just happened in St. Louis that you probably didn’t hear about. The Church of God in Christ, a seven-million-member black denomination, unanimously passed a historic resolution affirming the value and dignity of every human life and opposing the practice of elective abortion in America. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A key excerpt from the Resolution on […]

‘Watchmen’ Is A Powerful Exploration Of Black Trauma, And Everyone Needs To Watch | HuffPost

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film

The sixth episode of the HBO series confronts white supremacy in TV’s best hour of the year.

Heartwarming moments as Michelle Obama visits Nigerian-born Artist, Njideka Akunyili Crosby | Pulse

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African Art

The U.S based Artist is one of the daughters of the late Dora Akunyili, who was the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control.

Incarcerated People Can Do More than Beat Harvard in a Debate | Rolling Stone

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019Mass Incarceration

“College Behind Bars,” a new PBS documentary executive-produced by Ken Burns, shines a light on a program that every major university in America should be sponsoring

Barbara Hillary, First Black Woman to Reach the Poles, Is Dead at 88 | The New York Times

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African American History

She accomplished both feats in her 70s, after deciding as a retired nurse that she wanted a little adventure in her life.

What Is China Doing In Africa?v| Forbes

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019Africa

Chinese corporations are all over Africa. In June 2017 a McKinsey & Company report estimated that there are more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] What are Chinese corporations doing in Africa? That’s a highly controversial issue. The reason Chinese corporations are in Africa is simple; to exploit the people and take […]

‘Juju’: Three Black Women Learn They’re Descendants Of Yoruba Witches In New Fantasy Web Series | Shadow And Act

November 26, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film

When the witch-centric series Siempre Bruja premiered on Netflix in February, it garnered a large amount of criticism on Twitter for its premise: A time-traveling Afro-Colombian witch goes to the 21st-century at the behest of a wizard who promises to save the life of her lover–a white man who turns out to be her slaveholder’s […]

In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Obama’s decade,” reparations, and Kaepernick. | The Intelligencer

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019African American Activist, African American Author

If the racial politics of the 2010s has a definitive chronicler, it is Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose magisterial 2014 Atlantic essay “The Case for Reparations” forced Americans to reckon with slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining in ways that many of them never had. Since the essay’s publication — which eventually prompted a congressional hearing on the […]