Blige honors Simone for singing songs “about injustice, struggle, and black life [that] resonate to this day”
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A Loving Tribute to a True Southern Food Legend | Southern Living
“Her cookbooks mentored me quietly, passionately. I am not certain which I relished more: her recipes for delicious country cooking or her storytelling.”
View MoreWhat Makes a Greeting Card Black? | The New York Times
In 1991 the Hallmark greeting card company, based in Kansas City, Mo., decided it was time to get serious about diversity. America was changing, as was Hallmark’s work force, and while the brand had dabbled in cards for black consumers since the 1960s, it didn’t have a perennial line that addressed them directly.
View MoreThe WOC Project Shows Beauty Brands What Representation Should Look Like | Teen Vogue
“The industry has a way of selecting the one or two token women of color.”
View More‘Atlanta’ Explores The Unshakeable Intimacy Between A Man And His Barber | Huffington Post
Black men don’t really have images that reflect the beauty of their hair on mainstream TV.
View MoreBlack Love Experience Promises a Passport to Wakanda in Southeast | AFRO
In a small corner of Anacostia where the vestiges of D.C.’s Chocolate City remain, lovers of everything black, beautiful and wondrous gathered to dance, mingle and heal.
View MoreArtist Henrietta Snype Preserves African Basket Making Tradition | AFRO
One of the most important aspects of African culture kept alive by the Gullah is basket weaving, or basket-making.
View MoreTuesdays in the Newsroom Visits Inkwell Beach and Oak Bluffs Summers | Vineyard Gazette
“We never had to go out of our circle, and because of the richness of the circle we never wanted to.”
View MoreBlack Hair’s Blockbuster Moment | The New York Times
Despite and perhaps because of a surge in white supremacist language in the United States, a wave of black cultural resistance is flooding the arts as well as the streets.
View MoreWhat’s your Black Joy? | The Black Joy Parade
The Black Joy Parade exists to provide the Black community and allies a live experience that celebrates our influence on cultures past, present and future.
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