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Houston principal says no more du-rags, curlers, sagging pants at her school — worn by parents | The Grio

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019African American Commuities, African American Culture ...

Carlotta Outley Brown is getting tough — on parents — and wants them to set an example in appearance when they come to her campus through a new dress code

Tessa Thompson On Her Panamanian Grandmother & the Lack of Afro-Latino Stories in Hollywood | Remezcla

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019Afro Brazilian, Afro Cuban ...

Carmen Phillips, Remezcla TAYLOR JEWELL/INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK, Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods, opening this weekend, Tessa Thompson plays Ollie, a woman trying to survive the last few days of her probation after getting caught illegally selling prescription pills in a rural North Dakota town on the Canadian border. When Ollie’s younger sister, Deb (Lily James), […]

Black Women Artists Stage a Performative Dinner at the Art Gallery of Ontario | Hyperallergic

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019African American Art, Black Art ...

A Canadian museum expands exhibition programming and social events to more aptly reflect the range of artist communities.

What Makes Someone Native American? | The Washington Post

April 23, 2019April 29, 2020KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

In March 2012, Heather McMillan Nakai wrote a letter to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs asking the agency to verify that she was Indian. She was seeking a job at the Indian Health Service and wanted to apply with “Indian preference.” Nakai knew this might be difficult: As far as she was aware, no […]

[WATCH] The Powerful Trailer For Ava Duvernay’s ‘When They See Us’ Is Here | Essence

April 23, 2019April 25, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

“When They See Us” will be available to stream on Netflix beginning May 31.

Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism | People’s World

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

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 […]

Her ancestors fled to Mexico to escape slavery 170 years ago. She still sings in English to this day. | The Washington Post

April 23, 2019October 30, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

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 […]

Harlem street renamed in honor of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis | New York Amsterdam News

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

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 […]