Sugarcane on Sapelo Island was once tended by slaves. Now it might sustain their descendants and help keep Geechee culture alive.
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The World Of Rosetta Tharpe: A Turning The Tables Playlist | NPR
By Cheryl Pawelski, NPR Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now. Her pioneering guitar virtuosity was fueled by the gospel swinging, shouting, holy-spirit energy of the evangelical church and the blues she heard on Chicago’s Maxwell Street, which crossed each other like crackling live wires in her […]
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Shenandoah National Park Is Confronting Its History | Outside
America’s parks are confronting the past in an effort to create more inclusive wilderness spaces
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When a black-owned funeral home in a gentrifying city has no one left to bury | The Washington Post
By Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post The thick, dusty ledgers were scattered about the cluttered office, 18 of them, their pages filled with neat script documenting the deaths of thousands of black Washingtonians over the course of a half-century. Open a volume to Page 123 and there is Lawrence Monroe Ryles, 39, a “colored” […]
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When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black Pioneers | The New York Times
In the 1850s, Midwestern states used harsh laws to deny free African-Americans wealth and property.
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Isra Hirsi Is 16, Unbothered, and Saving the Planet | Vice
As the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike and the daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi is grappling with harassment, safety threats, tokenization, and privilege on a national scale years before she’s even allowed to vote.
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New Criminal Justice Film Series from The Marshall Project Highlights Chicago Witnesses to System’s Injustices | Chicago Defender
By Ariel Parrella-Aureli, Chicago Defender Harold Washington Library Center’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium was a full house at the opening screening of a new local series focusing on injustices in the criminal justice system. On Sept. 12, The Marshall Project released 15 video testimonies of Chicago voices affected by the justice system, “We Are Witnesses: Chicago,” is […]
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Freedom to Travel | PBS
By Dave Quinn, PBS [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he victory won by the Freedom Riders was decisive and unambiguous, expanding the freedom of African-Americans to travel through the United States. Since the institution of Jim Crow laws at the close of the 19th century, African-Americans in the South had been forced to endure substandard, segregated conditions while traveling on […]
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The ‘world’s smallest, portable record player’ takes off after ‘Shark Tank’ airing | CNBC
Claire Rodgers & Sophia Fraioli, CNBC Shark Tank, CNBC, Season 9. Featured Image [dropcap]E[/dropcap]ven at the peak of digital music streaming, vintage record players have stood the test of time amongst true music enthusiasts. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Logan Riley, former creative education lead at Apple, liked to spend his Saturdays going to the record store, which […]
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After 50 years, the University of Wyoming apologized for the dismissal of 14 black football players | CNN
Leah Asmelash, CNN, CNN Members of the Black 14 pose for the camera at the University of Wyoming. From left: John Griffin, Tony Gibson, Lionel Grimes, Tony McGee, Ted Williams, Guillermo Hysaw, Roy Hill and Brian Lee, representing his father, Earl Lee. In front is Mel Hamilton. Featured Image [dropcap]C[/dropcap]NN)Nearly 50 years ago, in 1969, […]
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