— BY, ARVIN JOAQUIN, OMNI TV VANCOUVER (OMNI TV) — Miss Universe Canada, Nova Stevens, called out people who flooded her social media accounts with hateful comments, sparking a conversation about racism in the pageant world. Stevens is the second Black woman to ever hold the title, more than thirty years after the coronation of […]
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‘Where have we been? Where are we going?’: CBC Asks explores Black Prairie experience | CBC, Radio Canada
— BY, CBC NEWS Emmy-award-winning journalist Nina Parker can now add another line to her lengthy resume. Earlier this month, her clothing line became the first Black-owned, plus-size clothing band to be featured in Macy’s. With sizes ranging from 0x to 3x, the Nina Parker Collection includes various pieces and looks that customers can mix and match […]
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The Ground Breaking review: indispensable history of the Tulsa Race Massacre | The Guardian
On the centenary of the attack on ‘Black Wall Street’, one of the worst racist outrages in US history, Scott Ellsworth has produced an impeccable work — BY, MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS Under the subtitle “An American City and Its Search for Justice”, Scott Ellsworth has produced a much-needed book that acts like a mirror. Though […]
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Key Man: Laurens Hammond, Inventor Of The Hammond Organ | U Discover Music
We present a uDiscover Music playlist celebrating Laurens Hammond’s fantastic invention, starring Jimmy Smith, Booker T and the MGs, Procol Harum and many more. — PAUL SEXTON, U DISCOVER MUSIC There was once a man who invented an automatic transmission system for cars, a type of 3-D glasses, a synchronous clock motor and infrared devices. […]
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We Need a Second Great Migration | The New York Times
Georgia illuminates the path to Black power. It lies in the South. Follow me there. — Charles M. Blow, The New York Times ATLANTA — A year ago this week, I packed some bags and left New York City for Atlanta. I’d lived in New York for 26 years. The city made me feel […]
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Harold Franklin became Auburn University’s first Black student on this day in 1964 | AL .com
— GREG GARRISON, AL.COM On Jan. 4, 1964, Harold Franklin walked onto Auburn’s campus as the first Black student in school history, pursuing a master’s degree that he never received after his thesis was repeatedly rejected, as late as 1969. On Sunday, May 3, 2020 at Auburn’s spring commencement for the College for Liberal […]
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Dr. Oliver Cromwell Cox, a cogent arbiter of class, race and caste | New York Amsterdam News
— HERB BOYD, NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS If nothing else, Isabel Wilkerson’s bestseller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, has resurrected a longstanding debate among scholars about the relevance of the term, particularly when caste was defined by the sociologist Oliver Cromwell Cox. While Wilkerson only quotes Cox once, it was enough to arouse […]
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What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing | ACLU
— ACLU In the middle of the 2020 pandemic, America was shaken by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the protests that erupted in the aftermath. But the disturbing trends we see today in police violence are the same patterns we’ve seen over the last 100 years. Again and again, commissions […]
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The black boxing pioneer who made home in 19th-century Ireland | The Irish Times
Tom Molineaux’s strange life story is every bit as fascinating as his career as a pugilist — Keith Duggan, The Irish Times Imagine the strangeness: an African-American moving through the Irish countryside in the late 1810s, the Famine more than 30 years in the country’s future and the villages teeming and overwhelmingly white and […]
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Descendants of Tuskegee Syphilis Study Survivors Say It Was Nothing Like the Covid-19 Vaccine | ZORA
They want to set the record straight on their fathers’ legacies and the ahistorical information — Morgan Jerkins, ZORA It used to be that Kwanzaa events were held at nearly every Black church, theater, and event space around and you could plan on going any day of the week after Christmas to celebrate the Nguzo Saba. […]
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