August 22, 2017 Racial Segregation and How It Impacts the Health of Poor Americans | Atlanta Black Star Home is where the heart is, but it is also where the health is. Last week, researchers at Princeton released a study that found that poor Black neighborhoods produce children (whether Black or not) with a higher risk of asthma than children in other neighborhoods. The study findings prove, yet again, that racism in housing markets has a negative effect on African-American health. African American Health, African American History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 20, 2017August 20, 2017 Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle – The New York Times “You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree.” African American Commuities, African American Families, African American History, Black History, Civil Rights, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 The Oldest African-American City In America Is Celebrating Its 130th Birthday | Okayplayer Eatonville, which received its charter from the state of Florida in August 1887, was built as a self-governing all-black town for black people living in central Florida at the time. African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89. African American Education, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In | The New York Times LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Fawn Weaver was on vacation in Singapore last summer when she first read about Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 The Hoods Are Off | The Atlantic The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march. African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Racism
August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 How black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship | The Conversation As the nation seeks to understand the recent violence, and as the Black Lives Matter Movement claims the mantle of black leadership, now is an important time to remember an earlier period of race-based violence and civil rights struggles. African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 James Baldwin Quotes That Are Powerful Enough to Stand True Today | Essence Celebrate Baldwin’s birthday with quotes that are still relatable in today’s society. African American History, Black History
August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World | Hyperallergic We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985. African American Art, African American History, Black Art, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 Sold on the Courthouse Steps | International African American Museum (IAAM) An auction block at a commercial slave market is probably the most common visual that comes to mind when you think of people being separated from families during enslavement. African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Slavery
