Scott Rappaport, UC Santa Cruz [dropcap]In[/dropcap] celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall of Fame will host a weekend this September in New York honoring the achievements of American women in the birthplace of the country’s Women’s Rights movement. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The highlight […]
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Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone | Brain Pickings
“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire and The Connection.”
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Black Bodies, Green Spaces | The New York Times
Why is the image of an environmentally conscious African-American still hard for us to picture?
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Nikki Giovanni Blasts Trump Presidency: Black People Voting for Him Is Like a Vote for Slavery | Atlanta Black Star
Kiersten Willis, Atlanta Black Star Nikki Giovanni speaking at Emory University in 2008., Featured Image [dropcap]Poet[/dropcap] Nikki Giovanni wants Donald Trump’s presidency to crash and burn and said Black Americans voting for him was like a vote for slavery. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “My heart breaks for the next generation with these fools in the White House,” […]
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She was the youngest speaker at the March for Our Lives. A year later, Naomi Wadler is still fighting gun violence. | The Lily
At the rally, the 11-year-old spoke about the black girls ‘whose stories don’t make the front page
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The War on Black Athletes | The Atlantic
Trump isn’t the first president to show such overt interest in sports, but he’s the only president in recent memory to attack athletes for their politics.
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50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders | The New York Times [Lens]
Maurice Berger, The New York Times Gloria Bouknight, at 20 years old, and at 74 in 2015. While living in New York City, she discovered the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, on a visit to Harlem, and became an active member. Since then, she started a business representing European designers in the United States, […]
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Angela Davis Says She’s ‘Stunned’ After Award Is Revoked Over Her Views on Israel | The New York Times
Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times [dropcap]Angela[/dropcap] Davis, the activist and scholar, said this week that she was “stunned” after a civil rights group in her native Birmingham, Ala., reversed its decision to honor her with an award amid protests over her support for a boycott of Israel. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Professor Davis, once a global […]
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Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook | The Undefeated
50 years ago, he worked with John Carlos and Tommie Smith for Black Power. Now, he’s talking with Colin Kaepernick.
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‘I’m ecstatic’: black liberation prisoner Mike Africa Sr released after 40 years | The Guardian
Member of the radical Philadelphia-based group Move 9, sentenced after violent confrontation with police in 1978, reunited with wife Debbie Africa and son Mike Jr.
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