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Minneapolis residents celebrate Juneteenth with annual 'Soul of the Southside' festival
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFour years ago, this south Minneapolis neighborhood was the charred epicenter of Minnesota's racial...
As Tyla States She’s ‘Never Denied Her Blackness,’ Please Stop Asking Her About It
Blavity via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoSouth African singer Tyla, one of the biggest, new global music acts of the moment, did an interview...
Rickwood game: Reggie Jackson, on live TV, recalls his experiences with racism in Alabama
San Jose Mercury News· 9 hours agoThursday’s game between the Giants and Cardinals at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama was billed...
Kimball Shinkoskey: A shameful parade of political servility
The Sun Chronicle· 1 day agoAmerica has experienced some embarrassingly cultic, racist, and repressive moments over the past couple hundred years: The Mormon polygamy experiment in the 19th century; Ku Klux Klan and < ...
'40 Acres and a Lie' details a broken promise of reparations to formerly enslaved people
WLRN Miami· 4 days agoA three-part series from Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity tells the history of “40 Acres...
After Willie Mays' death, Rickwood Field game takes on renewed significance
CBS News via Yahoo Sports· 1 day agoWillie Mays began his professional baseball career with the Birmingham Black Barons, who barnstormed...
Why Must Tyla Repeatedly Defend Her Blackness?
Teen Vogue· 6 days agoIn the video, she refers to herself as a “Coloured South African,” explaining that term means she comes “from a lot of different cultures," and that in her family, “one of ...
Saying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’
The Conversation via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoFrom the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow South, Willie Mays rose to the height of fame and...
Wait, so Jim Crow was a good period for Blacks? You could have fooled me
The Mining Journal· 6 days agoByron Donalds of Florida, whom multiple news outlets have put on Trump’s short list of possible running mates. “During Jim Crow the Black family was together ...
Why Must Tyla Repeatedly Defend Her Blackness?
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn the video, she refers to herself as a “Coloured South African,” explaining that term means she comes “from a lot of different cultures," and that in...