America celebrates the Kardashians’ female-centered family — but pathologizes Black matriarchs 2015/10/9-Cosmopolitan magazine has declared the Kardashians America’s new first family. Certainly, this symbolic dethroning of the Obamas is shot through with every kind of upsetting racial implication, a point …..
2015/10/7-Friends, family and fellow activists paid homage to late civil rights leader Julian Bond on Tuesday night at a memorial service at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The former NAACP chairman died in August at 75 after a …..
2015/10/6-The ballot sent out to absentee voters in Hinds County has complicated what many say is an already confusing voting process. According to the sample ballot approved in September by the governor and secretary of state, the two proposed constitutional …..
2015/10/5-“A young black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station,” reads an invitation by Toni Morrison for a posthumous book-launch party she threw for Dumas in 1974, six years after he died. “A …..
2015/10/5-Growing up during the crack era in East Baltimore, author D. Watkins saw firsthand how the drug destroyed communities. “It trashed my neighborhood,” Watkins tellsFresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “I’m old enough to remember before crack really hit, and once it …..
