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Ron Dong was only 2 years old when his Chinese American parents moved to Coronado, Calif., a change that had been possible only because of a Black couple who defied anti-Asian segregation to rent a house to his family. More than 80 years later, Ron and his younger brother, Lloyd Dong Jr., 81, are carrying […]

January 10, 2013 by 826chi in Beyond the Films In Soul Food Junkies, filmmaker Byron Hurt briefly describes what it used to be like for African Americans to travel in the United States. He talks about how blacks would take along boxed lunches in order to avoid being turned away from restaurants or dining cars. And […]

“African Americans have a peculiar relationship with spirits and spirited drinks,” says Toni Tipton-Martin, the James Beard award-winning author and editor-in-chief for Cook’s Country. Late last year, Tipton-Martin published a cocktail-focused cookbook and story collection titled Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs & Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book, which details the contributions of Black Americans to the […]

After the Great Migration saw African Americans relocate in high numbers to northern cities to escape racist oppression, 1920s Harlem, New York became a mecca for Black creativity in visual, literary and performing arts. The Harlem Renaissance was rooted in countering racial stereotypes and prejudices through Black self-representation and the movement left a significant and […]

SEPTA to honor activists who played key part in transportation industry, social change SEPTA to honor activists who played key part in transportation industry, social change 02:00 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – SEPTA on Monday will honor several activists who played a key part in desegregating the transportation industry . . .

Before Kaitlin Armstrong was found guilty of killing professional gravel cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson, she was on the run in Costa Rica from the murder charge. A few days after Wilson was murdered on May 11, 2022 . . .

A United States naval officer who sent an intelligence officer working for the Chinese government photos of American military installations and details of naval training exercises in Asia was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Monday. The 27-month sentence in federal court for the American officer, Wenheng Zhao, also known as Thomas, […]

Former law professor and Harvard Law School graduate Winkfield Twyman Jr has claimed the recent attacks on Claudine Gay’s credibility are ‘well deserved’ In a blistering op-ed he argued that Gay has ‘made a career of attacking black scholars’ and should therefore not be protected by circling the ‘racial wagons’ A black former law professor has said […]

Morehouse College, a 156-year-old Black men’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, has produced graduates such as Martin Luther King and Spike Lee. It has been an essential campaign stop for Democratic politicians such as Barack Obama, John Lewis and, last September, Kamala Harris.

Back in July, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. A federal court had recently granted a temporary injunction, in Missouri v. Biden, finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment by coercing social media companies to remove content, related both to elections and the COVID-19 vaccine, that […]


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