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As Tyla States She’s ‘Never Denied Her Blackness,’ Please Stop Asking Her About It
Blavity via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSouth African singer Tyla, one of the biggest, new global music acts of the moment, did an interview...
Why Must Tyla Repeatedly Defend Her Blackness?
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 7 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...
Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That’s a clear red flag
San Jose Mercury News· 6 days agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B....
'Aiming for Freedom': Asheville honors Juneteenth with art, food, music in historic Block
Gannett via AOL· 1 day ago"Here, on the Block, because it holds the history and the legacy of Black resilience. You think...
After Willie Mays' death, Rickwood Field game takes on renewed significance
CBS News via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoWillie Mays began his professional baseball career with the Birmingham Black Barons, who barnstormed...
Willie Mays: Saying a final goodbye to baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’
United Press International via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoWillie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80...
'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...
Wes Moore and the politics of cannabis
Politico· 3 days agoIn the new documentary, “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics,” filmmaker Andre Gaines explores how the 22-year-old athlete left the Jim Crow <...
Diane Oliver’s Fiction From Both Sides of the Color Line
The Nation· 4 days agoHow do you make art about racism? Neighbors, then, is that troublesome artifact: an artist’s...
Interview: Justin Mark of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Fred Kavli Theatre
Broadway World· 6 days agoThe national tour of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird comes to Thousand Oaks beginning Tuesday,...
