My experience negotiating restitution for Holocaust survivors has shown me how difficult and divisive a slavery reparations program would be to enact.
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This Soul Food Restaurant is Serving Lessons In Black History With “Shoebox Lunches” | Black Enterprise
Patrick Coleman is packing a piece of history into the meals served at his soul food restaurant Beans & Cornbread. Throughout Black History Month, the Detroit-based bistro will offer “shoebox lunches” similar to the boxes African Americans used to store food when traveling in the south during the Jim Crow-era. Because they were banned and […]
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Dad and daughter need a little help in this super relatable clip from Matthew Cherry’s animated short “Hair Love” | AV Club
Shannon Miller, AV Club Image: Penguin Kids (YouTube). Featured Image [dropcap]Audiences[/dropcap] who plan on checking out The Angry Birds Movie 2 in theaters this weekend will also get to watch “Hair Love,” the animated short film by filmmaker Matthew Cherry and executive-produced by Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and Frank Abney (Toy Story 4). […]
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About Blackness, Africanness and When It’s Enough | Awesomely Luvvie
Luvvie Ajayi, Awesomely Luvvie Luvvie Ajayi DAMON DAHLEN, HUFFINGTON POST. Featured Image [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat is Blackness? Is it based on where you’re from? Is it based on your skin tone? Is it based on your heritage? Is it a lived experience? What is BLACKNESS? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As someone whose Blackness was questioned loudly because of a […]
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The Leah Chase You Didn’t Know | Garden & Gun
The Queen of Creole Cuisine had another passion—collecting and heralding the work of African American artists
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A local’s guide to Baltimore | The Washington Post
By Lisa Snowden-McCray + Photos by Andrew Mangum, The Washington Post [dropcap]P[/dropcap]eople from Baltimore can be cagey about the way outsiders see their city. That’s the kind of thing that happens when you live in close proximity to your more moneyed, fancier cousin, Washington, D.C., or when you’re faced with the real tragedy of crime […]
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Yes, African-Americans Drink Bourbon. You’d Never Know It From the Marketing. | The New York Times
Groups like the Black Bourbon Society have formed to share an appreciation of the whiskey, and distillers are finally starting to pay attention.
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Sweet Home Cafe | Atlas Obscura
This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
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These Extraordinary Shirts Define Black Pride | Buzzfeed
Treye Green, Buzzfeed Naomi Wadler talks about gun violence at a Smithsonian Institution event on December 7. (Erin Schaff; Lily illustration), Featured Image We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. Oh, and FYI — […]
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Employers have no business policing black people’s natural hairstyles | Los Angeles Times
THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, Los Angeles Times [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] people have a fraught and painful history with hair. In particular, black women with textured, tightly curled or kinky hair have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money torturing it into straightness with chemicals and flat irons to fit a white standard of beauty that magazines have […]
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