Global Information Network, Los Angeles Sentinel [dropcap]C[/dropcap]South Africa witnessed the beginning of the end of Whites-only beaches thirty years ago this week after an action launched by the Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was part of an escalating campaign to defy apartheid. Throngs of demonstrators were chased down Cape Town streets by police […]
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Why more and more black Americans are moving to Ghana | The Week
Mark Beckford, Mark Beckford Natalija Gormalova/Narratively. Featured Image [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Lakeshia Ford decided she was going to pack up her life and her budding career and move from New Jersey to Ghana, her family could not understand why she wanted to make the trek to a country thousands of miles from home. Even more surprising, to […]
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Celebrating the Second Annual Latin American Foto Festival in the Bronx | Feature Shoot
Miss Rosen, Feature Shoot Yael Martinez. Alin Granda at her father’s home in Taxco Guerrero.Ignacio Granda went missing in Iguala Guerrero on May10, 2013 Alin was one year old.With more than 100 thousand deaths that the fight against organized crime has left, there is a generation of children growing in a context of violence. Guerrero […]
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What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching? | Buzzfeed
The most iconic image of racist brutality in America would have looked different had James Cameron not survived a lynching attempt in Indiana in 1930. He devoted the rest of his life not just to civil rights, but to memorializing the moment of his near death.
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New Plan Seeks to Replace Newark’s Lead Pipes In Less Than 3 Years | Colorlines
With the national spotlight on the city’s lead water crisis, officials have shaved seven years off the initial timeline to replace pipes.
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Airbnb Partners With NAACP To Promote Travel To Ghana For ‘The Year of Return’ | Essence
To expand its partnership with the NAACP, Airbnb embarked on a Jamestown to Jamestown pilgrimage to Accra, Ghana.
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J. Edgar Hoover saw Dick Gregory as a threat. So he schemed to have the Mafia ‘neutralize’ the comic. | Washington Post
Kyle Swenson, Washington Post [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the middle of the hothouse atmosphere of the 1968 U.S. presidential election — racial strife splitting cities, antiwar protests on college campuses, segregationist George Wallace growling up out of the South — Dick Gregory barnstormed the country, pitching audiences his acid mix of jokes and politics. The African American comic […]
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Illinois Governor Signs Bill Raising Teacher Minimum Pay To $40,000 | HuffPost
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the new law, which aims to reach the $40,000 salary minimum by 2023-24, will help address the teacher shortage.
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Museums in France Should Return African Treasures, Report Says | The New York Times
PARIS — The sprawling Quai Branly Museum in Paris is stuffed with treasure. It has some 70,000 objects from sub-Saharan Africa in its collection, including magnificent statues from present-day Benin and delicate paintings that once decorated church walls in Ethiopia. But a long-awaited report coming out this week could have a dramatic impact on what […]
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Never Forget: 69 Black Boys Were Padlocked Into A Dormitory Where A Mysterious Fired Started – 21 Burned To Death | Black Main Street
For the last 5 decades, every year has been 1959 for Frank Lawrence. For the majority of his life, Lawrence has been trying to solve one of Arkansas’ greatest mysteries. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “No one ever knew it existed because the ability of the state of Arkansas to do such a fantastic job to cover it […]
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