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Lauren London Is ‘Forever Stronger’ In The Latest Puma Campaign | Essence

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019African American Entertainment, KOLUMN Magazine

The Marathon Continues

Lost Ethiopian town comes from a forgotten empire that rivalled Rome | New Scientist

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019African History, Ethiopia

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient buried town in Ethiopia that was inhabited for 1400 years. The town was part of a powerful civilisation called Aksum that dominated East Africa for centuries and traded with other great powers like the Roman Empire. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “This is one of the most important ancient civilisations, but people [in […]

College Football Doesn’t Give Black Coaches Many Chances | Five Thirty Eight

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019African American Athletes, Racism

Where Willie Taggart goes, so goes history. The 43-year-old — whose parents worked in migrant fields — landed head-coaching gigs at Oregon and Florida State, two of the most coveted jobs in college football, at a relatively young age. At each of his four stops as a head coach,1 Taggart was the first African American […]

This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry | The New York Times

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees.

Meet the Black woman who has fed thousands for free on thanksgiving for almost 40 years | Yen

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019African American Commuities

Kind-hearted Janet Easley has been serving Thanksgiving dinner to thousands of needy people in central Indiana every holiday for the last 38 years. Indianapublicmedia.org writes that Janet Easley has welcomed everyone to the Turner Family Thanksgiving Meal, which will be held at three locations across Indianapolis in 2019. Easley has invited everybody including children and […]

Boston activist wins City Council race by a single vote after recount | The Boston Globe

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote

Julia Mejia told reporters at City Hall moments after the tally was announced that she was prepared for a legal challenge.

Honoring the ‘Green Book’: A life-saving travel guide for African Americans during segregation | WMCAction News 5

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019African American History, Black History

‘If you wandered into a place where African Americans are not welcome…you could end up actually being killed’

The Age of Trump Is Producing More Black Gun Owners | NBC News

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019African American Politics

CLEVELAND — When Lesley Green was a little girl in Houston in the 1960s — just a few decades after the routine lynchings of blacks in the South — her father would go off to work a late-night shift and leave a gun and a pile of bullets behind. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] If any strangers came […]