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Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) White conservative America sure had a lot to say about Rev. Jeremiah Wright—and by extension, the Black church—and his “God damn America” sermon. White people across the nation got all in their star-spangled feelings when they got a glimpse of how pastors in Black churches …
Read More »The Breathtaking Ingenuity of Incarcerated Artists
Image above: Dean Gillispie’s Spiz’s Dinette, 1998 This article was published online on February 7, 2021. Spiz’s Dinette, a toaster-size trailer with a propane tank no bigger than your thumb, was painstakingly crafted during Dean Gillispie’s years of incarceration at an Ohio prison. Gillispie constructed the silver trailer by spreading …
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Read More »Study Reveals Most Affordable Public And Private HBCUs For 2021
Student Loan Hero, a Lending Tree Co. has released a 2021 study on the most affordable public and private historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). For its study, Student Loan Hero used the 2019-2020 data from the National Center for Education Statistics including annual tuition and fees as well as …
Read More »28 Days of Album Cover Blackness with VSB, Day 7: Miles Davis' On the Corner (1972)
Image: Miles Davis “On the Corner” (Columbia Records) I mean, I don’t even have to say it, but do you see this cover?? Look at all that animated Blackness permeating that bright yellow background. I like to think that yellow represents the sun, and everybody on the cover is the …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Just the GOP’s Latest Challenge
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Donald Trump is gone. But fringe ideas that he endorsed are still finding representation in Washington, …
Read More »Queen Latifah Says Black Women Have Always Been Equalizers
Starring in the new CBS drama series The Equalizer, Academy Award nominee and legendary multi-hyphenate, Queen Latifah, takes on the role of Robyn McCall in the reimagined classic action series. Playing McCall, Latifah portrays an enigmatic woman who is a single mother of a 15-year-old daughter Deliah (Laya DeLeon Hayes). …
Read More »Maggie Lena Walker Made History As the First Woman to Own a Bank in the United States
Maggie Lena Walker made history when she became the first woman to own a bank in 1903. On top of that, she was a Black woman. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank became a catalyst for economic advancement in the Black community. “First we need a savings bank. Let us …
Read More »Judge Clears Capitol Rioter Who Said She'd 'Do it Again in a Heartbeat' to Travel to Mexico…Because America Loves White Terrorists
Screenshot: @DavidBegnaud/ Twitter America has a long road ahead of it in sufficiently dealing with its domestic terrorism problem. And the biggest hurdle America faces is itself—because America still loves white people way too much. America is so in love with its own traditional image (white people) that it’s near-blind …
Read More »The Six Best Indie Movies to Watch Out for This Year
Read: Shaka King on directing ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ The Pink Cloud felt extraordinary not just because it eerily echoed real life, but also because it brought stylishness and grace to its setting of drab apartment interiors. The ostensibly sci-fi film is Gerbase’s feature debut, but it’s made with …
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