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By Paul Revoir and Lettice Bromovsky 21:52 08 Mar 2024, updated 22:42 08 Mar 2024 Another West End theatre will hold performances for predominantly-black audiences, despite the Prime Minister’s warning that such shows are ‘wrong and divisive’. Blue, a play about the shooting of a black motorist in the US, will have two ‘Black Out […]
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. “We built this country.” – Black people If you survived the American education system’s social studies curriculum, you might believe that Black people have slowly but generously achieved full citizenship into a country that […]
UNITED STATES – AUGUST 02: White Hall at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama Photo: Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge (Getty Images) The first Black student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert Robinson Taylor was the first accredited Black architect in the United States. After graduation, he went to work at Tuskegee Institute, where he designed 25 campus buildings, […]
The Maryland supreme court heard arguments on Monday from a group of organizers attempting to halt the sale of a local apartment complex that sits on top of a historic African American burial ground. Members of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) packed the court in Annapolis on Monday, where justices heard testimony about
Eden Getahun was ecstatic when, just 13 months ago, she learned Harvard University would have its first Black female president. But she sensed even then that Claudine Gay, a prominent African American studies scholar, would face harsh obstacles leading the predominantly white institution. There was “excitement and hope in terms of what it represents for […]
First Black-financed, founded church for Black Catholics in the U.S. was built near Natchitoches, Louisiana KTALnews.com Source link
BY EDEN STRATTON & ANNE MARSHALL-CHALMERS | The War Horse This article was written by Eden Stratton and Anne Marshall-Chalmers, and was originally published on The War Horse on Oct. 5, 2023. Melissa Jones never . . .
To be Black in America is a difficult story to tell. Albeit, the International African American Museum says it is an important story that must be told. From the outset, Africans in slavery had their identities removed and were transported as cargo. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database reports that between 1525 and 1866, European colonizers […]
New York CNN — In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. Assistant US Attorney Thane Rehn painted a picture of a villainous, greedy businessman . . .
ZipNada writes: A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades. Georgia Power announced Monday that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now sending power to the grid reliably. At its full […]