post Africa’s youngest billionaire is free 9 days after gunmen seized him | CNN Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was seized by gunmen outside a luxury hotel nine days ago, is home safe after his kidnappers freed him, police said.KOLUMN MagazineOctober 23, 2018
post The Harvard Case Is About the Future of Affirmative Action | The Atlantic One day before Harvard goes to court to defend its admissions practices, two warring rallies made clear that the trial is about much more than just the university.Affirmative Action African American Economics African American Education KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 23, 2018
post The Complexity of Black Girlhood Is at the Heart of The Hate U Give | The Atlantic The film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s YA novel offers a startlingly honest portrait of its heroine confronting buried trauma to find her political voice.African American Families African American Lives KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 22, 2018
post These Two Could Soon Be the First Muslim Women to Serve in Congress | The Atlantic A Palestinian-American from Michigan and a Somali-American from Minnesota are poised to become the first Muslim women to become members of the U.S. House.KOLUMN MagazineOctober 22, 2018
post How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making | The New York Times Style Magazine Perhaps our best contemporary photographer, she creates work that insists on the worth of black women — both in art and in life.African American Art African American Photography Black Art KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 19, 2018
post Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination | The New York Times RUIRU, Kenya — Before last year, Richard Ochieng’, 26, could not recall experiencing racism firsthand.Africa African Business African Economics KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 19, 2018
post A Black Motorists’ Guide to Jim Crow America, Newly Relevant | The New York Times Style Magazine The “Green Book,” a travel manual published between 1936 and 1967 — and now the premise of a film by the same name — feels as necessary as ever.African American History Black History KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 19, 2018
post Black Billionaire Robert F. Smith, Just Made Another $3 Billion with Sell to Adobe | Black Enterprise Vista Equity, the private equity firm launched by black billionaire and engineer Robert F. Smith, announced it is selling a cloud-service company it purchased in 2016, Marketo, to Adobe, for $4.7 billion.African American Entrepreneurs African American Professionals Black Businesses KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 18, 2018
post Arkansas’ ‘Hidden Figure’ Raye Montague Dies at 83 | Ebony Arkansas’ own “hidden figure” who worked as an engineer for the U.S. Navy and was seen as a leader for women of color in the engineering field has died at age 83.African American History African American News African American Technology Black News KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 18, 2018
post She’s sold 500 paintings and written a children’s book. She’s 13. | The News & Observer Camryn, an eighth-grader at Thales Academy in Rolesville, talks about how she juggles it all and offers some advice for other young entrepreneurs.African American Art African American Author African American Literature Black Art KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineOctober 18, 2018
