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Uncovering the Soul of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement | The New York Times

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019African American Art, Black Art ...

The New York photographer Kwame Brathwaite helped ignite a global celebration of African-American style and identity.

Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition | Open Culture

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019African American Music, Black History ...

Open Culture, Open Culture [dropcap]It[/dropcap] may well be a truism to say that American music is African American music, but that doesn’t make it any less true. And when we reduce truths down to truisms they lose the granular detail that makes them interesting and relevant. Everyone knows, for example, that there would be no […]

Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six | Black Perspectives

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

Denise Lynn, Black Perspectives Trenton Six, 1949, (Charles White via Museum of Modern Art). Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central Park Five, a legal case that for many of us unfolded in living memory. The attention the docuseries […]

25 Black Women Launches To Celebrate Black Women In The Beauty Business | Essence

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs ...

A dinner was held to launch the collective, which works to celebrate and elevate Black women in the beauty industry.

Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant | The New York Times

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

Farah Stockman, The New York Times [dropcap]Prosecutors[/dropcap] in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a manslaughter charge against a woman over the death of the fetus she was carrying when she was shot in the belly, in a case that stirred national outrage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Likewise, Negro Spirituals and the black gospel tradition […]

Lead Belly | Folkways Recordings

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019African American Entertainment, African American Music ...

Folkways Recordings, Folkways Recordings [dropcap]Lead[/dropcap] Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949). From the swamplands of Louisiana, the prisons of Texas, and the streets of New York City, Lead Belly and his music became cornerstones […]

Little Known Black History Fact: National Black Network | Black America Web

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019African American Entertainment, African American News ...

D.L. Chandler, Black America Web The U.S. National Archives. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] National Black Network became the first coast-to-coast radio network fully owned by Black Americans on July 2, 1973. The NBN was the brainchild of white media executive Robert Pauley, who eventually handed over the idea to a trio of Black executives. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]

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