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Photo: GABRIEL BOUYS (Getty Images) In honor of the late Kobe Bryant, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has displayed the jersey he wore during the 2008 NBA Finals. According to CBS News, the jersey was displayed as part of its “Sports: Leveling the Playing Field,” …

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This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after  time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster. The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, the …

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From the creators of hit BET+ film Sacrifice, Footage Films, comes a new captivating thriller TRIGGER. The original film tells the story of Trey Mass, who is finally home from prison after a ten-year sentence. With nowhere else to go he visits his brother Collin. Collin’s wife, Vanessa, is not …

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0 Kevin Richardson of the Exonerated Five (Image via Syracuse University) Kevin Richardson became cemented in history when he and four other young boys were wrongfully convicted of sexual assault in a high-profile case dubbed as the “Central Park Jogger Case.” After decades of fighting in court, the five men …

In summer of 2019, one year before Chadwick Boseman died after a four year battle with colon cancer, the actor filmed what would become his final role in Netflix’s new drama, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, co-starring alongside Viola Davis (Ma Rainey). Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, is a star-studded adaptation of …

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In 2018, “Permit Patty” threatened to call the police on an 8-year-old Black girl for selling water on a San Francisco sidewalk.Photo: CBS SF Imagine an America where you can call the authorities on a Karen for calling the authorities on you just for existing while Black. San Francisco, Calif., …