When Writer/Photographer/Content Creator Rashidah De Vore found difficulty getting her projects picked up by different companies and producers, she did what any self-respecting, entrepreneurial-minded woman would do: she created her own way.
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Black Workers Had Long Shaky History With Fed Jobs Before Shutdown | Atlanta Black Star
Associated Press, Atlanta Black Star | In this Jan. 10, 2019 file photo Cheryl Monroe, right, a Food and Drug Administration employee, and Bertrice Sanders, a Social Security Administration employee, rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP Photo. Featured Image [dropcap]DETROIT[/dropcap] (AP) — For Cheryl Monroe and […]
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review – Chiwetel Ejiofor’s charming directorial debut | The Guardian
The actor’s first film behind the camera is a stirring adaptation of a William Kamkwamba memoir telling an astonishing story of triumph in Malawi.
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How the 1% profit off of racial economic inequality | The Guardian
The racial wealth divide is bringing down median wealth, while wealth at the very top soars.
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“Big Sister” Barbara Lee’s Advice for the New Women of Color in Congress | AFRO
“There’s always solidarity. But I think this year is unique because you have so many women of color, and women from diverse backgrounds, and women who have broken so many glass ceilings.”
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Kalief Browder’s Suicide Brought Changes to Rikers. Now It Has Led to a $3 Million Settlement. | The New York Times
New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the breakdown in criminal justice in New York and fueled the drive to ban solitary confinement for youths in the city’s jails.
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Joséphine Baker’s Life Reimagined at the Metropolitan Museum | Hyperallergic
Julia Bullock, soprano, plays the singer and activist Joséphine Baker in a chilling performance in the museum’s Great Hall.
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The Racial Wealth Gap Could Become a 2020 Litmus Test | The Atlantic
With black votes in the balance in the Democratic primary, would-be candidates are already developing aggressive policies to target inequality.
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Audra McDonald Heading Back to Broadway to Star in Romance | Atlanta Black Star
NEW YORK (AP) — Six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald is heading back to Broadway to be a waitress — but not in “Waitress.”
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Four Black Political Pioneers Pen Book of Their Lives | AFRO
“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” (St. Martin’s Press) tracks the stories of Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore, (With Veronica Chambers) in a book that is part memoir, an ode to friendship and an insider’s tome to the political landscape over the last few decades.
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