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Deepening Empathy and Understanding of the Black American Diaspora Through Food (Guest Column)
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 2 days agoI’ve spent my whole career looking at food from the perspective of origin and, specifically, as an...
10 Movies That Celebrate Black Joy to Stream on Juneteenth
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoFrom a charming fairytale adaptation to Pixar’s first film to feature an African American...
How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSue Thrasher, one of the original founders, was a Scarritt College student who began protesting segregation at Nashville restaurants in the 1960s after a woman from the Fiji ...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe parties continue today, for those who are aware enough to find them and to take part. "The kinds of celebrations that I've seen and been a part of...
Juneteenth: What to know about the historical celebration that's now a federal holiday
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“I didn't learn it (until) I was an adult, really (in the) 1990s, when as a teacher, I started...
‘Say Hey, History Books,’ the Late Willie Mays Transcends Our Time and Goes to the Ages
The New York Sun· 7 hours agoThrough baseball, Mays brought Blacks and whites together to root for a common cause whether the...
Cheers & Jeers
The Uniontown Herald Standard· 6 days agoLawson, an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the civil rights movement gained...
Opinion: Voting in the footsteps of great African American women
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 3 hours agoWhether it was a local election or a national one, I joined her as she cast her ballot. When I...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAs a civil rights activist, at his Los Angeles church and in his practice of nonviolence, James...
Black Music Month: The Deep Roots Of Soul & Its Modern Voices
BET.com· 6 days agoA music genre that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, Soul music profoundly reflects Black cultural...