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An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It's back.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoEnslaved Black New Yorkers often lived in isolation from one another, with only a few people living...
White Journalist Gets Dragged For Disguising Himself As A Black Man For Book About Racism
Black America Web· 6 days agoWell, that might have changed now that a Canadian-American journalist has announced his book...
Opinion | A Historic Verdict and the Fight for True Equality
Mississippi Free Press· 1 day agoThe recent verdict finding former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony criminal charges marks...
Traveling exhibit on black baseball history opens in Camden at cultural center
WACH FOX 57· 4 days agoCarolina State Museum has arrived in Camden, showcasing a poignant chapter of black baseball history...
Watch: theGrio talks with Dyana Williams, mother of Black Music Month
theGrio via AOL· 1 day agoWhite House lawn making it official and the rest is history. In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed the first presidential proclamation recognizing June ...
Country Music’s Black History
Harpers BAZAAR· 2 days agoIt’s a subject that Beyoncé delved into headlong with the release this March of her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, which pays tribute to some of the...
The Lesson Buried Beneath the Song of the Summer
Slate via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoMotown’s marketing machine had a lot to do with that. In Billboard’s year-end chart for 1970, four out of the top 10 songs were by Black artists, and...
'Clipped': What to know about the Donald Sterling scandal
KTTV via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoChu remembers waking up to the news the next morning. "It was like a really emotional time for us,...
Jinkx Monsoon Is Ready for Her Close-Up
them via Yahoo News· 14 hours ago“Drag Race shows your multiple talents; it’s like a demo reel,” she says. “I was fortunate that people saw that I was a drag queen and an actor.” When...
10 Days of Juneteenth Jubilee returns to Corpus Christi for seventh year
KIII Corpus Christi· 11 hours agoBack in 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation...Juneteenth celebrations were born. The Texas...