Eric Arnold, KQED The Lumpen, the Panthers’ singing group, performs at the boycott of Bill’s Liquors, Oakland, 1971. Clark Bailey, known as Santa Rita, is dancing. Michael Torrence (front) and James Mott (back) are drumming. (Courtesy of itsabouttime.com), Featured Image [dropcap]Saturu[/dropcap] Ned claims he once changed Tupac Shakur’s diaper before going on stage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
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Alfred Street Baptist Church Gifts Howard University With $100k To Pay Off Tuition & Outstanding Balances Of Senior Students | PR News Wire
Alfred Street Baptist Church’s 100k donation helps 34 Howard University graduating seniors remove financial holds; taking their accounts to a $0 balance to ensure they graduate in May 2019.
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Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says | The New York Times
Liam Stack, The New York Times Most hate groups in the United States, including the Ku Klux Klan, espouse some form of white supremacist ideology, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.CreditCreditAndrea Morales for The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] number of hate groups in the United States rose for the fourth year in […]
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The Little-Known Tale of the Only African American Automaker | Car and Driver
Patterson-Greenfield only built cars from 1915–1918 but found time to innovate, even patenting a door design that presaged those on modern-day vans.
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No matter who wins the runoff election, Chicago will elect its first black woman mayor | CNN
Madeline Holcombe, CNN Toni Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot will move forward to a runoff election on April 2. Featured Image [dropcap]CNN[/dropcap] Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle have emerged from a crowded field of candidates to move on to a runoff in Chicago’s mayoral race, meaning the Windy City will elect its first black woman mayor […]
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Queen Latifah Is Developing $14 Million in Affordable Housing in Newark | The Root
Jay Connor, The Root Photo: Nino Muñoz. Featured Image [dropcap]After[/dropcap] conquering the entertainment industry, and leaving an indelible mark on music, film and television, multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah is looking to extend her reign by giving back to her hometown of Newark, N.J. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Through her company BlueSugar Corporation, the 48-year-old will partner with GonSosa […]
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This Little Girl Recreated Iconic Album Covers For Black History Month And She Seriously NAILED It | BuzzFeed
“I hope we ensure that our children have pride and self-love and love the color of their skin and the texture of their hair.”
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These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell | Time
John Edwin Mason, Time Photographs by Wayne Miller—Magnum Photos. Featured Image [dropcap]There[/dropcap] are many ways to photograph a black person, and it’s easy for things to go horribly wrong. America’s long history of racist imagery makes that quite clear. Wayne Miller, a white man, was notable for doing it right. In the mid-20th century, a […]
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Black Women in the Labor Movement Have Long Defended American Workers | Teen Vogue
No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.
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Remembering Bayard Rustin 50 Years After the Stonewall Uprising | NYU Local
“We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.”
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