Month: May 2021

The museum’s part of a $349 million mixed-use project being built along the Harlem River waterfront in the Bronx. Years in the making, the Universal Hip-Hop Museum is getting closer to physical reality. Several hip-hop legends attended the groundbreaking at the site of the permanent home of the museum yesterday. Nas, LL Cool J, Fat Joe, Lil Kim, Naughty […]

(CNN)Viola Fletcher was 7 years old when she witnessed one of worst acts of racial violence the US has ever seen.An angry White mob rampaged through Tulsa’s Greenwood District in Oklahoma, killing hundreds of Black people and leaving her thriving neighborhood in ashes in 1921.The 107-year-old testified before members of a House Judiciary subcommittee on […]

And how an FDA ban could unwind decades of public health damage. BY JULIA CRAVEN Nearly five years ago, on a muggy August night, I stepped outside and smoked my last cigarette. I’d just gotten off the phone with my Nana, who reminded me that my grandfather, a former smoker, died of lung cancer. My Nana […]

Paul Mooney, the actor-comedian famous for his roles in “The Buddy Holly Story” and “Bamboozled,” has died at 79.  Mooney passed away Wednesday morning in Oakland, California, his daughter Spring Mooney confirmed on Twitter. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to reports. “Give me a moment,” Spring said in the emotional tweet. “My best friend […]

Malcolm X was an African American civil rights leader prominent in the Nation of Islam. Until his 1965 assassination, he vigorously supported Black nationalism. Malcolm X was a minister, human rights activist and prominent Black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and 1960s. Due largely to […]

“I am humbled and blessed to be in the community of Akron and to bring my visions of the new era of authentic and fusion Jamaican cuisine,” says owner McKay. “This is our third location in northeast Ohio and we cannot wait to share all of the vibes with you.”

Juneteenth is sometimes called America’s true independence day, because if you really think about it, July 4, 1776, only represents the day that white male Americans became free. In his Independence Day remarksOpens a new window in 1852, Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist, asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I […]

A Nation’s Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”  A black-and-white photograph of Frederick Douglass wearing a jacket, waistcoat, and bowtie. The wet plate ambrotype plates are housed in a folding leather case with tooled gilt oval mat.Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture  On July 5, […]

Black Man Forced into Slave Labor Wins Judgment of More than $500K Stacy M. Brown Follow on TwitterSend an emailMay 3, 20210 1,160  1 minute read In a story as appalling as many of the racially motivated attacks on African Americans and one that was relatively obscure, a federal appeals court ruled that a White man should pay […]