He was a sharecropper’s son who transformed the very foundations of modern popular music, with ‘Lucille’ and his influential, innovative sound. 2015/5/15-B.B. King was, in every sense, a giant figure in blues, intimately connected with the origins of the form, …..
Why integrating America’s neighborhoods and cities is harder than we think. 2015/5/15-There’s no question that white Americans prefer white neighborhoods. As I noted in a Wednesday column, “20 percent of whites said their ideal neighborhood was all white … [a]nd only …..
2015/5/15-Before Ferguson, Baltimore, Tamir Rice or Eric Garner, there was 13-year-old Nicholas Heyward Jr. In 1994, he was playing in the stairwell of the Gowanus Housing Project, where he lived in Brooklyn, when a police officer shot and killed him. …..
2015/5/15-Baltimore correctional officers Tamika Cobb and Kendra Richard have been charged with theft and burglary after being caught on camera leaving a closed 7-11 with stolen goods. They have been suspended without pay. The burglary took place on April 25, just weeks …..
As advocates and policymakers focus on changing the narrative for African American boys, their female counterparts become less of a priority. 2015/5/11-In a classroom at the University of Pennsylvania, more than a dozen black girls and women gather on a …..
