October 18, 2017 Lionel Richie to Produce Biopic About Curtis Mayfield’s Extraordinary Life | The Root Lionel Richie just secured the rights to bring Curtis Mayfield’s life to the big screen. African American Culture, African American History, African American Music, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 16, 2017 Baltimore artist Amy Sherald to paint Michelle Obama’s official portrait | The Baltimore Sun Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004 and just joined the faculty there, has been commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to paint the official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama. African American Art, African American History, African American News, Black Art, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 16, 2017 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee taken off Mississippi school reading list | The Guardian To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism and the American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district because the language in the book “makes people uncomfortable”. African American Families, African American Film, African American History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 13, 2017October 14, 2017 Angela Davis: An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism | Verso "The concept associated with Black Marxism that I find most productive and most potentially transformative is the concept of racial capitalism.... Global capitalism cannot be adequately comprehended if the racial dimension of capitalism is ignored." African American History, African American Literature, Black History, Black Literature, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 13, 2017 A Museum Goes Beyond Its Walls to Teach Prince George’s County’s Rich History | Washington City Paper Through its education efforts and programming, the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center strives to be a pillar in its community. African American Education, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 13, 2017 These Were the First Cookbooks Published By Black People in America | Smithsonian Magazine These cookbooks and domestic guides offer historians a window into the experiences and tastes of black Americans in the 1800s African American Art, African American Chef, African American Culture, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 12, 2017October 12, 2017 Toni Morrison’s Radical Vision of Otherness | New Republic The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness. African American History, African American Literature, African American Lives, Black History, Black Literature, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 12, 2017 Jussie Smollett Reveals He’ll Be Playing Langston Hughes In Upcoming Biopic | Essence Smollett recently spoke to the hosts of ESSENCE's Yes, Girl about his small cameo and revealed there's more to come from the role. African American Cinema, African American Film, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
October 10, 2017 Mississippi Textbooks Are Keeping Students Ignorant of the Civil Rights Movement | Truthout Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren't required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all. The previous social studies standards mentioned the phrase "civil rights" just three times in the 305-page document. It refers to the "Civil Rights Movement" once. African American Education, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Race, Racism
October 10, 2017 Bunny Sigler, Who Helped Create 1970s Philly Sound, Dies at 76 | AFRO PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Walter “Bunny” Sigler, a singer, songwriter and producer who helped create “The Sound of Philadelphia” in the 1970s, has died. African American Culture, African American History, African American Music, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
