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The world was introduced to Eric Garner after seeing the image of him falling to the ground from a fatal...
The world was introduced to Eric Garner after seeing the image of him falling to the ground from a fatal...
The name Madam CJ Walker is synonymous with Black hair care and Black wealth. Walker built a beauty empire and...
Although we hear the history of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s, Jamaica’s Maroons (or Windward Maroons)...
Zadie Smith, the U.K.-born best-selling author, has a new novel entitled Swing Time due out this fall and anticipation is...
During the Harlem Renaissance, work by creatives like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Jacob Lawrence captivated the public, but...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham was simply trying to get to her father’s church where she was an organist. She didn’t likely...
In 2005, when Octavia Butler’s novel Fledgling came out, I gave it to all of my nieces and “little” girl cousins....
Anonymous, the underground “hacktivist” group that has claimed responsibility for numerous high-profile leaks and website hacks over the years, has...
Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo was living in New York — an ocean away from her parents, who had moved back to their...
A standing ovation greeted Pastor Mark V. C. Taylor’s words on Wednesday night at a packed and lively meeting in...