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Join us for “We, Too, Sing America”: A 5-Week Exploration of the Story and Significance of Black People in America’s Story. Led by Leawood Location Pastor, Robert Johnson. This promises to be an enriching immersion, further illuminated by the captivating insights of Dr. Shana Mashego, a renowned classical music artist and ethnomusicologist. Dr. Mashego’s unique […]
Princeville, North Carolina, is the oldest Black-chartered town in America, but its residents are reportedly concerned it could be underwater sometime in the future. The town, established at the end of the Civil War by freed slaves, sits close to the Tar River and is a little over 50 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean. […]
On a blustery January afternoon in Princeville, N.C., about 35 citizens met with their mayor, elected commissioners and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in their new flood-resistant town hall, built in 2020. Across Main Street, elderly residents were climbing two flights of stairs to enter their senior center, raised . . .
In the summer of 1984, after he finished his first U.S. Foreign Service assignment, in Yugoslavia, Jan Krc flew to Washington, D.C., for what he thought would be a couple of weeks’ training en route to his next post, in South Africa. He thought nothing of it when he was called in for a security […]
What would happen if East Coast shipping ports were underwater and out of operation? Supply chains across the nation rely on these ports transporting trillions of dollars’ worth of goods each year. With experts predicting an average sea level rise of 2 feet by . . .
OMAHA — A North Omaha landmark, built more than a century ago, is part of a national wave of religious buildings that will share $4 million awarded last week under a program to protect the legacy of America’s Black churches. The former Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church, 3105 N. 24th St., is to benefit from a […]
“People realized we may not see anything like this again,” says former campaign and White House staffer Heather Foster of the historic 2009 swearing-in of
Fifteen years ago today, the United States of America achieved something that it had not done in its more than 230-year history: a Black president was sworn into office. Former President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother, took the oath of office on January 20, 2009 to become the […]
Ava DuVernay describes her new movie Origin, which is based on Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste, as “a film about a woman in pursuit of an idea.” Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Academy Museum hide caption toggle caption Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Academy Museum Ava DuVernay describes her new movie Origin, which is based on Isabel Wilkerson’s […]
Lewis Black is in his element. Onstage before an adoring audience, he merely says the name of disgraced former Rep. George Santos before the crowd erupts into laughter. The longest-running contributor to Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Black, with his signature raspy voice rising in anger as he stabs his finger in the air, later unleashes […]