“The city needs to enact policies and better support programs that will ensure that African American residents, who provide invaluable contributions to life in the nation’s capital, have equal economic and educational opportunities and incentives to stay in the District,”
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Tech Start-Up Founder Kristina Jones Becomes 14th Black Woman to Raise $1M In Outside Capital | Atlanta Black Star
“You have to do some digging to really strike gold,” she said.
View MoreBaltimore 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.
View MoreBlack Icons Shun the Black Press | The Washington Informer
“Let me take the message to my people in the Black community and you take the message to the white community and, if it works out, we’ll meet.” – Bobby Rush
View MoreBlack and Latino representation in Silicon Valley has declined, study shows | The Guardian
New study exposes persistent racial prejudice in tech, suggesting people of color are widely marginalized and denied career opportunities.
View MoreCan an All-Boys, Afrocentric Education Close the Achievement Gap? | The Root
“There is so much fear in the average black male growing up in a city that is covered up as bravado….”
View MoreIn honor of civil and women’s rights activist Mary Church Terrell | Hello Giggles
Mary Church Terrell is a figure in African-American and women’s history worth celebrating. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 23rd, 1863, Terrell would go on to be one of the first African American women to attend Oberlin College.
View MoreThe Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. | The New York Times
As the Studio Museum prepares to break ground here next year, coinciding with its 50th anniversary, Ms. Golden, is overseeing the institution at a turning point in its history.
View MoreWhat Happens When Marcus Samuelsson Takes Harlem to London? | The New York Times
Having already established restaurants in Bermuda and in Sweden, Mr. Samuelsson opened the eponymous Marcus late last year at MGM National Harbor, a casino in Maryland outside Washington, D.C., and anticipation is high for Marcus B & P set to open any day now in downtown Newark.
View MoreMeet Phillis Wheatley | The Gospel Coalition
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784), a poet and the first African-American woman published in pre-Revolutionary America, was also a notable apologist, abolitionist, and missionary.
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