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I took my new wife and new 5-year-old son on a long drive this summer, trying to surprise them with a serving of beignets. We live in Connecticut. The beignets were in New Orleans. We ended up driving more than 3,400 miles and seeing parts of America that made us proud, made us smile and […]
Kigali, Rwanda — Black Pearl Global Investments, a US based asset management and venture capital firm, hosted their two-day conference: African Healthcare: Lessons from the Continent on the 8th and 9th of September at Norrsken Kigali House and African Leadership University. The conference gathered students, healthcare professionals, government officials, and tech entrepreneurs to discuss the […]
September programs include virtual story sharing and learning opportunities, plus conference at Michigan History Center in Lansing In commemoration of International Underground Railroad Month in September, the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission and the Michigan History Center present their 5th annual Heritage Gathering, a series of virtual programs and an in-person conference. This year’s events are built […]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As reproductive and abortion rights advocates in the United States continue to reel following the Supreme Court’s gutting of Roe v. Wade, the battleground for abortion access […]
Before going to Belize in June 2022, I had put off getting my passport for years. Ever since I was a little girl, I’d fantasized about traveling abroad. When I went to college, I had plans to study internationally and had all of these expansive ideas about being a political analyst and covering international stories […]
As the world rallied against the Nazis during the second world war, white US military police wantonly attacked their own black servicemen in the Lancashire village of Bamber Ridge in 1943. It was this forgotten history that inspired producer Jemma Rodgers to create the story of Abe, a young black American soldier featured in The […]
A Black woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Tampa, Fla. Black Americans have died of the disease at a rate more than double that of white people. Octavio Jones/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Octavio Jones/Getty Images A Black woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Tampa, Fla. Black Americans […]
When Heidi Adelsman was in fourth grade, her family told her she’d be going to a new school. It was 1971 and Minneapolis was deeply segregated. Children attended public schools that were either mostly white or mostly Black, and schools with mostly Black students got fewer resources. Adelsman, who is white, said her family’s home […]
Old Crow Medicine Show played their first concert of a nationwide tour Thursday at Ting Pavillion on the Downtown Mall. The tour comes after Old Crow released their seventh album, “Paint This Town,” on April 22. The country string band is known for their song “Wagon Wheel,” one of the top 5 best-selling country songs […]
The collection includes seven topsy-turvy dolls, circa the late 1800s, which consist of a Black and white doll conjoined at the waist. (Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy / Photo by Glenn Castellano) Dolls—from ancient representation of humans in art, to familiar children’s toys or use in religious rituals—have held meanings more than meets the eye. […]