The history-making class of new women on Capitol Hill is here, and its members have a lot to say.
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A Lovestruck Poultry Farmer on a Journey Far From Home | The New York Times
“An Orchestra of Minorities,” a new novel by the Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, follows his excellent debut, “The Fishermen.” That novel — a Cain and Abel-like story about four brothers who learn of a prophecy foretelling that one will murder the oldest — was a tour de force, an unexpected take on a familiar story.
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Meet The Black Woman who Created The World’s Largest Tech Conference | Shoppe Black
Ngozi Odita is the founder of Social Media Week Lagos. She is a producer and a public speaker that works with artists and arts organizations to produce public programming that includes art exhibitions, film screenings, concerts & artist talks.
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5 Writers of Color Who Should Win the Poets Laureate Fellowship | Colorlines
The Academy of American Poets’ new grant program will support the poets who head arts initiatives for cities, tribes and states across the country.
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Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ | The New York Times
The Oscar-winning artist behind “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Moonlight” grapples with the spotlight, with advice from Denzel Washington and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ | The Atlantic
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
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Hotel dishwasher awarded $21 million after boss made her work on Sundays | NBC News
Marie Jean Pierre, who worked as a dishwasher at the Conrad Miami, sued Virginia-based Park Hotels & Resorts, formerly known as Hilton Worldwide, in 2017 for violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Consequences of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Canonization | The Atlantic
The civil-rights leader is now celebrated as a modern founding father, a celebration that gives those who oppose his policy agenda a claim to his legacy.
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“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice | People’s World
The rocky relationship between journalism and the struggle for African-American equality, like any other courtship, is full of ebbs and flows, fluctuations that often times mirror larger societal changes.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘Trump is where he is because of his appeal to racism’ | The Guardian
The basketball legend and social activist who counted Ali and King among his contemporaries discusses Colin Kaepernick, LaVar Ball and Trump’s America.
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