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For the past decade, Mikayla Lowe Davis has been braiding and styling hair for her customers. “The first thing people see a lot of times is our hair,” she says. “We have to represent our crown and be confident with wearing it.” The 29-year-old stylist, who owns Mikki Styles Salon, is braiding in synthetic hair […]
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave On a cold winter day, thousands gathered in front of the White House to demonstrate against racial injustice and out-of-control unemployment. Holding signs saying, “We Demand Work or Wages” and “Fight Police Brutality,” Black and White workers picketed until police broke up the crowd with billy clubs […]
CNN — Protesters have marched in the US for six consecutive nights over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Their anger over . . .
Queen Njinga meeting with Portuguese Governor Joao Corria de Sousa, 1622 Public domain image Queen Nzinga (Nzinga Mbande), the monarch of the Mbundu people, was a resilient leader who fought against the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade in Central Africa. During the late 16th Century, the French and the English threatened the Portuguese near […]
As Bernadette Hall looks out onto her farm, a small smile creeps onto her face. “Not much in life is more beautiful than that, eh?” she asked. At 51 years old, Hall is a white farmer in South Africa with expansive land to hold her cattle, corn, and pigs. She said it’s what . . […]
President Joe Biden leaves St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., after attending Mass on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden wants Americans to grasp the extraordinary stakes of this year’s presidential election, as he sees them. As part of that effort, he’s revisiting […]
When Layla Vitorio Peçanha recalls what happened on February 8, 2003, she speaks of it as a rebirth. Anxiously, the then-teenager made her way to the Rio de Janeiro State University’s (UERJ) campus, one of the country’s best. The long list of those who had passed its difficult entrance exam was pinned to a wall. […]
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In Hollywood, just four words are needed to end the prospects of a film with a predominantly African American cast: Black films don’t travel. Such a mantra has dead-ended countless scripts and limited diversity on and behind screens. The belief is that films with black casts will be seen only by black audiences. But black […]
Add to your saved storiesSave Bernie Sanders has had strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire, but he is facing an important challenge: appealing to minority voters. Voters in the Democratic contests were more than 90 percent white. But that changes in the upcoming contests in Nevada and especially South Carolina, where almost 30 percent […]