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How Afeni Shakur Put Black Women First In the Fight for Liberation
Time via Yahoo News· 12 months agoPolitical activist and Black Panther member Afeni Shakur onstage at a rally in support of the...
How the Shakurs Became One of America’s Most Influential Families
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAsked to identify the most influential families in the United States, many Americans might name the...
Tupac Shakur's radical family's Black Liberation legacy gets a 'magnificent' history
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoSanti Elijah Holley's 'An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created' tells the full...
South Bend Black History Month honorees focus on lifting others, as they have been lifted
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSOUTH BEND — It was their turn in the spotlight before a full crowd Thursday night at the Charles...
Henry Taylor, the democratic king of portraiture, makes his L.A. homecoming at MOCA
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLos Angeles painter Henry Taylor, whose canvases weave together quotidian life with currents of...
Sammy Davis Jr. Broke Barriers—Sometimes at His Own Expense
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNationaal ArchiefIn the mid-1960s, Sammy Davis Jr. ranked behind only Martin Luther King Jr. and...
Activist Groups Trained Students for Months Before Campus Protests
The Wall Street Journal· 2 weeks agoThe political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training,...
13 historical sites that made Central Avenue the cultural lifeline of South L.A.
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Alex Tatusian) Between 1900 and 1950, the population of Black people living in Los Angeles grew...
How a Drake concert put NYPD’s ‘arsenal’ of surveillance technologies under the spotlight
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTens of thousands of cameras and facial recognition software police the nation’s largest city and...