Her multimedia art never strays far from her concern with the land, especially the Southern land, and its occupants, especially its black occupants.
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‘Well-Read Black Girl’ Is Bigger Than Glory Edim | The New York Times
This September, outside a boutique store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, members of the Well-Read Black Girl book club sat in a misshapen circle of folding chairs on the sidewalk.
View MoreThe Tricky Allure of Becoming a Black American Expatriate | The Atlantic
For generations, African Americans have left the U.S. in search of freedom from racism and oppression. But what do they actually find when they settle overseas?
View MoreYour Guide to the Smithsonian African American Film Festival | Washingtonian
More than 80 films will show at the first annual festival from October 24-October 27
View MoreAn African American artist’s “remixing” of apartheid-era images is raising questions about appropriation | Quartz Africa
Wandering around this year’s Johannesburg Arts Fair in September, photographer Graeme Williams stopped dead in front of a familiar image. The photograph of black South African children marching past a tank of white police officers was his—except that it wasn’t.
View MoreThis Abandoned Texas Church Once Destroyed By The Klan Is In A Contest For Revitalization Money | Texas Standard
The San Marcos Baptist church was first burned down by the KKK. Now community members are trying to save its history from being erased by gentrification.
View MoreNation’s first shopping center owned, operated by Blacks turns 50 | The Philadelphia Tribune
When he was a boy, Howard Sullivan was always excited to join his father at the construction site of what is now Sullivan Progress Plaza in North Philadelphia.
View MoreGeorgia County and Secretary of State Sued for Rejecting Minority Absentee Ballots at High Rates | Mother Jones
Gwinnett County has thrown out a much higher share of ballots from minority voters than from white voters.
View MoreKamala Harris proposes big new middle-class tax break | Politico
Sen. Kamala Harris, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, today proposed a big new tax break for average Americans.
View MoreThe 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.
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