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  • Published on May 3, 2025

    Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

    In early 2020, I made up my mind that I wanted to write a love story. Separated from my family and friends during the height of the pandemic and emotionally raw from living alone, I wanted to write something where I already knew the ending from the …

    Source: The Guardian - Center-left
  • Published on 16:21 GMT

    Black People and Cinco de Mayo 

    Every year on May 5, Black people across the country come together to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with an enthusiasm that often catches outsiders by surprise. From packed dance floors to taco-and-tequila-filled tables, the festivities seem to transcend …

    Source: Michigan Chronicle - Left-wing
  • Published on 10:30 GMT

    Who gets to write America's history? Activists prepare to battle.

    CHURCH CREEK, MD ‒ Deanna Mitchell pointed to the bronze bust of Harriet Tubman at the center's entrance and urged visitors to touch the nape of its neck to feel the scars. The bust, she explained, faced North where Tubman had led dozens of enslaved …

    Source: Anderson Independent-Mail - South Carolina - Pending
  • Published on 19:30 GMT

    Psychiatry's Legacy Of Racism And Coercion Highlighted In Restraint Deaths

    (MENAFN- Send2Press Newswire) LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 5, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) - With May being Mental Health Month, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is spotlighting a disturbing new study published in the Journal of …

    Source: MENAFN - Indeterminate
  • Published on 03:54 GMT

    Tailoring and the Black dandy: how 250 years of Black fashion history inspired the 2025 Met Gala

    Fashion is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding ourselves and the world around us. Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black dandy. Inspired by scholar Monica L. Miller’s …

    Source: The Conversation - Neutral
  • Published on May 3, 2025

    Gerth: 'My Old Kentucky Home' celebrates slavery. Let's stop singing it.

    Welcome to Kentucky, where our state song is so damn depressing, we won't sing the last two verses because, well, they're about Black people being sold down the river to work in the sugar cane fields of Louisiana.  My Old Kentucky Slave Quarters. …

    Source: Courier-Journal - Kentucky - Neutral
  • Published on May 1, 2025

    Government-academia showdown obscures their complicity over slavery and its impact

    The Trump administration recently went on the offensive against some of the nation’s top-tier colleges and universities, threatening to withhold billions of dollars in annual federal grants, especially for research, if the schools do not comply with a …

    Source: South Florida Times - Left-wing
  • Published on May 3, 2025

    Exceptional cast lifts uneven staging of Scott Joplin's 'Treemonisha'

    Scott Joplin’s opera, “Treemonisha,” long had a kind of ghostly presence in America’s classical music scene. Certain insiders knew of it, but no one had actually seen it, because it was not fully staged until a 1972 joint premiere by the Atlanta Symphony …

    Source: Chicago Sun Times - Illinois - Pending
  • Published on May 3, 2025

    How black men have used bold fashion as resistance

    ShareSave (Credit: Tyler Mitchell)This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold tailoring worn by black men that has made a statement. Black dandyism, the subject of …

    Source: BBC - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on May 3, 2025

     Chinua Achebe, Nobel Prize And African Literature

    March 21 was here again recently. On this particular day in 2013, Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most distinguished writers and intellectuals took his last breath in Boston, Massachusetts, mourned and celebrated by his teeming readers, critics …

    Source: Daily Independent - Pending
  • Published on May 2, 2025

    Extremist blogger to debate Harvard professor at unsanctioned campus event

    An extremist blogger, who has become the Trump administration’s so-called “dark enlightenment” sage, is debating a Harvard professor of political philosophy at an unsanctioned event on its campus next week. Curtis Yarvin, who was for a time an obscure …

    Source: The Guardian - Center-left
  • Published on May 2, 2025

    Skip New Orleans: Louisiana's "Sweet Spot" Is A Mouthwatering Destination Foodies Will Love

    What are the most popular cities in the USA when it comes to food? Las Vegas has plenty of buffets to satisfy all foodie cravings, while New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles are often mentioned among the best cities in the United States for pizza. …

    Source: The Travel - Neutral
  • Published on May 2, 2025

    Foreshadows and Forewarnings: We Were an Early Warning System for Democracy

    Two past conversations that warned of democracy’s structural weaknesses years before they became headlines. Prescient insights needed now more than ever. America’s democratic crisis didn’t start with Donald Trump’s reelection — it was predicted by experts …

    Source: WhoWhatWhy - Left-wing
  • Published on May 1, 2025

    The Underground Railroad went all the way to Canada – and a new photo exhibit preserves that legacy

    Between the late 18th century and the end of the American civil war, tens of thousands of Black Americans escaped the bondage of slavery by fleeing plantations to go north. The Underground Railroad had stops in states in which slavery was illegal, such as …

    Source: The Guardian - Center-left
  • Published on May 2, 2025

    Hood column: Carolinian championed freedom for all

    As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial — Americans launched their rebellion against British rule 250 years ago last month at Lexington and Concord — I’ve been writing a series of columns chronicling the contributions North Carolinians made …

    Source: The Enquirer-Journal - North Carolina - Pending
  • Published on May 1, 2025

    Next Gen Leading Ladies

    Written by KATHRYN DRURY WAGNER MARGARET BRENNAN, a 10th grader at Savannah Country Day School, is spearheading a comforting, intergenerational project: Care Wear for CURE, a partnership with CURE Childhood Cancer, a nonprofit that funds research and …

    Source: Savannah Magazine - Neutral
  • Published on May 1, 2025

    We Overcame Jim Crow By Confronting Injustice. We Can Do it Again.

    May 1, 2025 Those billy clubs striking my body strengthened my mind and convinced me that we could overcome segregation. We did so then, and we can overcome Trump’s America today. Ad Policy A protest against Jim Crow restrictions on voting in 1964. (Bob …

    Source: The Nation - Left-wing
  • Published on May 1, 2025

    America in Chains

    Back in 2018, in the middle of Donald Trump’s first presidency, I wrote a column for the New York Times titled, “We’re All in the Ghetto Now.” I was talking (mostly) metaphorically about how Trump’s clear disdain for so many of his fellow Americans — i.e., …

    Source: Truthdig - Left-wing
  • Published on May 1, 2025

    Daguerreotype, day trips, and devastation: the Met explores early US photography

    “Group on Petra, Lake Mahopac” (1888). Alice Austens Three friends — one woman, two men, twenty-somethings, all handsomely dressed in late 19th century attire — repose themselves beneath a canopy of trees on a rocky riverside. Their rowboat, oars rested …

    Source: Gay City News - New York - Left-wing

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