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The Ivy Hotel: Maryland’s Black-Owned Oasis in the Middle of Charm City | Ebony

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020African American Entrepreneurs, African American Travel

The Black-owned boutique hotel has been open only five years, yet it already has a strong-hold on hospitality in the city. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Despite countless contributions to American culture, Baltimore, Maryland, has been associated with nothing more strongly than HBO drama The Wire over the past two decades. The street life depicted on the Emmy-winning […]

Africa’s last three monarchies and why they remain standing | Face2Face Africa

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

Monarchies in Africa can be categorized into two, sovereign or absolute monarchies and sub-traditional monarchies. Sovereign monarchies are kings who rule over the state with absolute political power while sub-traditional monarchies are kings ruling and controlling subjects in communities, towns, chiefdoms or kingdoms without absolute power. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Before now in Africa, kings had absolute […]

Exploding Myths About ‘Black Power, Jewish Politics’ | NPR

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

Many Americans tell the story of Black-Jewish political relations like this: First, there was the Civil Rights movement, where the two groups got along great. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] This was the mid-1950s to the mid-60s — picture Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marching arm-in-arm from Selma to Montgomery. And James Chaney, […]

Teen Entrepreneur Celebrates 10 Years in Business, Lemonade Distribution in 1,500 Supermarkets | Black Enterprise

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs

She started a business that went from a single lemonade stand to the shelves of 1,500 supermarkets across the country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] 1,500 supermarkets She walked off Shark Tank with a $60,000 investment and Daymond John as a mentor. She speaks at business conferences all across the world—this year alone she presented in Budapest and […]

Truck Driver Launches Website To Help Travelers Find Black Owned Restaurants | We Buy Black

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020African American Cuisine

Truck drivers spend a lot of time on the road and the meal options can be hit or miss. The simple act (seemingly) of finding a seasoned piece of meat can turn into an adventure, when you’re away from home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Edward Dillard has been a truck driver for almost 15 years and in […]

A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters | Time

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020Native Americans, Navajo

Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian women, she argued, we’re targets of the “modern form” of genocide—sterilization. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the […]

Portland coach who comforted armed student named one of Time magazine’s heroes of 2019 | Q13 Fox

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020Mental Health

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) — A Portland high school coach who confronted and comforted an armed student back in May has been named a hero by Time magazine. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On May 17, Angel Granados-Diaz brought a loaded shotgun into Parkrose High School while experiencing a mental health crisis. When Keanon Lowe, the school’s track and […]

White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | The Guardian

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Commuities, Race ...

“While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are […]

The Snowy Day is Amazon’s beautiful, hopeful addition to television Christmas specials | The Verge

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Literature, Black Books

On Thanksgiving, Amazon quietly published its contribution to the Christmas canon. The Snowy Day is an adaptation of the award-winning 1962 children’s picture book of the same name, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Odds are you’ve seen the book, or had it read to you. Its cover art, with a tiny […]

Pardons for the Wilmington 10 | The New York Times

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

Before leaving office next month, Gov. Bev Perdue of North Carolina should finally pardon the Wilmington 10, a group of civil rights activists who were falsely convicted and imprisoned in connection with a racial disturbance in the city of Wilmington more than 40 years ago. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The convictions, based on flimsy evidence and perjured […]