Claudia Vargas, The Inquirer, Philly.com TIM TAI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER . Featured Image [dropcap]Sitting[/dropcap] at a small desk across the hall from the mayor’s office, Chamarra McCrorey finds her inner Jim Kenney as she responds to dozens of emails, letters, and social media posts each day. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Valentine’s Day, Kenney received two requests […]
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Legacy of Tampa’s lost neighborhoods endure | WTSP 10 News
“The very existence of neighborhoods like Dobyville and the Scrub and Central Avenue go to that story of segregation, go to the story of separate accommodations based solely on race, and the need to have separate communities.”
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I Quit Google, Started a Company, and Sold It to Amazon. Ditching Silicon Valley for Atlanta Was Huge | Inc.com
In 2013, Jewel Burks Solomon launched Partpic, a startup that makes it easier to identify industrial parts. One day, Amazon called–with an acquisition offer.
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Esperanza Spalding Appointed to Harvard’s Music Department Faculty | Harvard University, Music Department
Harvard University, Harvard University, Music Department Photo: Jersean Golatt, Featured Image [dropcap]July[/dropcap] 24, 2017: We are pleased to report that Esperanza Spalding has joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Harvard University as Professor of the Practice, with an appointment beginning July 2017. Spalding will teach a range of courses in songwriting, arranging, […]
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African American Economics: Real Facts | Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise Editors, Black Enterprise iStock/Kate Sept 2004, Featured Image [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] families are more confident about achieving the American Dream than the general population. However, African Americans fall short on executing life-changing measures such as accumulating wealth, being better prepared for retirement and building up savings. Here are a few facts (and advice) about African […]
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The Explosive Chapter Left Out of Malcolm X’s Autobiography | History.com
Missy Sullivan, History.com Truman Moore/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images, Featured Image [dropcap]It’s[/dropcap] not often that a little-known chapter from one of the most important books of the 20th century emerges into the public sphere. Especially one in which a prominent civil-rights figure delivers a stern rebuke to his race. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In July 2018, the […]
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FUBU Is Back With A Relaunch Of The Iconic Fashion Brand | According 2 Hip Hop
A2HH, According 2 Hip Hop Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer, Featured Image [dropcap]FUBU[/dropcap] is back with a streetwear capsule available exclusively at cENTURY 21. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As the first product created under FUBU’s “Can’t Resist a Classic” campaign, the capsule references the brand’s ‘90s-era styles, offering 10 pieces based on the classics that helped to […]
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Another first for Misty Copeland, and many in ballet say it’s about time | The Undefeated
She and Calvin Royal III are the first black couple to perform lead roles for American Ballet Theatre
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How a black man says he ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader | The Washington Post
Katie Mettler, The Washington Post One of the largest and oldest neo-Nazi groups in the United States appears to have an unlikely new leader: James Stern, a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP), Featured Image [dropcap]Without[/dropcap] notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy […]
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This North Philly bar near Temple hosted legends like Coltrane and Patti LaBelle, but its owner refuses to sell | The Inquirer, Philly.com
Brandon Harden, The Inquirer, Philly.com Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer, Featured Image [dropcap]Jake[/dropcap] Adams remembers when a 15-year-old Jill Scott tried to sing in his North Philly jazz bar, ballroom, and restaurant, New Barber’s Hall. It was 1987, and the venue was riding high with intimate performances by such jazz and R&B stars as Dottie […]
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