FacebookTwitterMailJACKSON, Mich. — An eight-year-old Michigan girl finally got her chance to shine in front of the camera this week at a photo shoot lead by a Chicago photographer, WILX reports. It was a happy turn of events for Marian Scott after she was not allowed taking her school picture because her hair’s color was not natural as the school’s […]
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FacebookTwitterMailA-lan Holt’s job is to help young people understand the immense power of art. In her new role as the Director of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), she helps train undergraduates in how to use art as a tool for organizing and for bringing about social change. “For us, the arts are not just about how do […]
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FacebookTwitterMailIt was 1965 when Winfred Rembert, then 19, says he was almost killed by a group of white men. “I’m 71. But I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me,” Winfred, now 73, said. During a 2017 StoryCorps interview, Winfred told his wife, Patsy Rembert, 67, about the traumatic incident he’s still grappling with today. It […]
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FacebookTwitterMailLena Horne made history throughout her life of activism and entertainment. She’s now set to make history once again. Horne has become the first woman of color to have a prominent entertainment award named after her. The Town Hall theater in New York City has announced its new award, the Lena Horne Prize for Artists Creating Social Impact. The award […]
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"There’s not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug."
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FacebookTwitterMailThasunda Duckett, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, a division of JPMorgan Chase, has joined an exclusive club with her recent appointment to NIKE‘s board of directors. As such, she has become the only African American female C-suite executive to serve on the board of the $34.3 billion athletic footwear and apparel producer as well as a future member of the […]
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Historic meeting organized by Jim Brown had an economic incentive
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Ashley James, most recently of the Brooklyn Museum, started there this week.
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Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much
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FacebookTwitterMailPlayVS, a Black owned Esports company which develops software used to operate high school esports competitions, announced recently that it had completed a $50 million Series C funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, which also headed up the company’s $15 million Series A in summer 2018. Other investors in the round include Battery Ventures; CAA cofounder […]
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