Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat Superintendent Joris Ray announced an initiative for black boys Monday at the National Civil Rights Museum. . PHOTO: Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Superintendent Joris Ray launched a new initiative Monday that he hopes will help black boys improve their test scores, take more advanced courses, and be on the […]
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‘Harriet’ Trailer: Cynthia Erivo Fights For Freedom as Harriet Tubman in Oscar Hopeful | IndieWire
“Eve’s Bayou” director Kasi Lemmons is behind the camera for this biographical drama about the abolitionist icon.
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Girl, 12, Describes Killing Of a Black Panther Here | The New York Times
— Max H. Seigel, The New York Times About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors […]
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I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. | The New York Times Magazine
My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.
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Donny Hathaway’s Daughter Lalah Is Finally Ready to Honor Him in Concert | The New York Times
Forty years after the groundbreaking soul singer’s death, his daughter will perform a full show of his music at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
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Serena Williams, Mark Cuban Invest in Black-Owned Maternal Healthcare Startup | Black Enterprise
Sequoia Blodgett, Melissa Hanna, CEO and Co-Founder (Image: Mahmee). Featured Image [dropcap]M[/dropcap]ahmee, a maternal healthcare startup, recently closed a $3 million round led by Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital. Other investors include Mark Cuban, Serena Williams for Serena Ventures and Pipeline Angels, among others. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The platform allows physicians and specialists to use the […]
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‘I Beat That N***r Like He Owed Me Money’: New Jersey Cop Faces Up to 40 Years for Federal Charges Including Using Excessive Force | Atlanta Black Star
Kiersten Willis, Atlanta Black Star © Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com Former Paterson Police Officer, Frank Toledo, leaves the Federal Courthouse in Newark on July 16, 2019 after being charged in court. Featured Image [dropcap]An[/dropcap] FBI investigation into several police officers in Paterson, New Jersey, has led to a seventh one being charged. On Tuesday, Frank Toledo pled […]
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Sister Cities: The Connection between Charleston and Freetown, Sierra Leone | South Carolina Public Radio
By Victoria Hansen, South Carolina Public Radio Dressed in a brightly colored, patterned dress and wearing stylishly large, black rimmed glasses, 51 year-old Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr flashes the most fantastic smile. The mayor of Freetown, Seirra Leone in West Africa has travelled more than 4,000 miles to visit Charleston and South Carolina’s Sea Islands. She must […]
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Black People’s Land Was Stolen | The New York Times
Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.
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Israel Begins Tearing Down Palestinian Housing on Edge of East Jerusalem | The New York Times
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times Israeli bulldozers tearing down one of the Palestinian buildings in the West Bank village of Dar Salah, between annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Credit Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]JERUSALEM[/dropcap] — Israeli bulldozers arrived before dawn on Monday and began clawing at the first […]
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