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The Jonestown We Don’t Know | The New York Review Of Books
Gaiutra Bahadur , The New York Review Of Books Matthew Naythons/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. The Evans family, who survived the Jonestown massacre by walking out of the camp on the morning of November 18, saying they were going on a family picnic, United States, November 30, 1978. Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] past November marked forty years […]
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Stephan James on how If Beale Street Could Talk will leave you “broken yet so full” | The AV Club
Danette Chavez , The AV Club Stephan James Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times. Featured Image [dropcap]For[/dropcap] Stephan James, 2018 was all about getting home, whether he was playing a star-crossed lover in Barry Jenkins’ singular romance, If Beale Street Could Talk, or a starry-eyed soldier trying to reintegrate himself into society in […]
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Reverse Colonialism Ad Banned In South Africa | AFROPUNK
Zama Mdoda , AFROPUNK [dropcap]South[/dropcap] African restaurant Chicken Licken has a reputation for epic advertisements and their latest commercial is no different. Their latest offering follows an African prince called Big Mjohnana who leaves his village in 1650 to find adventure out in the world. Big John ends up in Holland where he stumbles across […]
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Ayanna Pressley Will Get The Old Office Of Shirley Chisholm, First Black Congresswoman | Huffpost
Massachusetts’ first black woman elected to Congress said Shirley Chisholm is her “shero.”
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Anthony Browder Makes History as the First African American to Lead and Fund an Archeological Excavation Project in Egypt | Los Angeles Sentinel
Sentinel News Service , Los Angeles Sentinel [dropcap]Washington[/dropcap] DC’s own, Anthony “Tony” Browder makes history as the first African American to lead and fund an archeological excavation project in Egypt. In May 2018, Mr. Browder, his daughter Atlantis Tye Browder, and the ASA Restoration Project excavation team discovered 2700-year-old Kushite artifacts that were recently installed […]
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26-Year-Old Photographer Nadine Ijewere On Her Historic Vogue Cover | Vogue
Hayley Maitland , Vogue [dropcap]When[/dropcap] Nadine Ijewere photographed Dua Lipa, Binx Walton, and Letitia Wright on the Kentish coast for this issue’s cover story, she became the first woman of colour to shoot the cover of any Vogue in the magazine’s 125-year global history. Here, the one-to-watch shares the details of her remarkable career to […]
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Inside Afrochella, Ghana’s Answer To Coachella | Travel Noire
Last year over 4,000 people from around the world gathered at the Afrochella Festival in Accra, Ghana to celebrate diversity among African cultures.
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Latent Prejudice Stirs When a Black Man Tries to Join a Charleston Club | The New York Times
Richard Fausset , The New York Times Dr. W. Melvin Brown III at his home in Charleston, S.C. At the encouragement of white friends in the Charleston Rifle Club, he applied for membership, but was rejected.CreditCreditHunter McRae for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]CHARLESTON[/dropcap], S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in […]
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Senate passes anti-lynching bill after nearly 200 failed attempts | The Washington Times
The Senate unanimously approved legislation Wednesday making mob lynching a federal civil rights crime, after a century of attempts.
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