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On May 25, 2020, I was at home in Omaha, Nebraska, participating in a video call with the World Health Organization on Covid-19 when I started seeing videos on social media channels. Three white policemen knelt on one black man. One officer pressed his knee into the black man’s neck. Then his last words, “I […]
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Black Americans have largely been left out of the story of American invention. In the North and South, patents from Black inventors tell a different story about innovation and U.S. history. Andre Perry is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His recent work dives into the world of American Invention, and takes a look at […]
Through the 18th and 19th centuries, the predominant opinion in the United States was that Black Americans had no history, says Joy Bivins, director of collections and research services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York. “Black history museums began to exist in the mid-20th century as a response […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set a mid-March special election date to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy January 8, 2024, 8:08 PM ET • 2 min read LOS ANGELES — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday set a mid-March special election date to fill the U.S. House seat […]
x Yesterday we lost the inimitable Ahmad Jamal, Jazz Icon and fellow @NEAarts Jazz Master. Ahmad was my brother Charlie’s favorite pianist. His impact on the world of music will be missed but never forgotten. Thank you Ahmad for being a pioneer of Jazz techniques for over 70 years! pic.twitter.com/7d8m0NdYic — Eddie Palmieri (@EddiePalmieri) April […]
x Yesterday we lost the inimitable Ahmad Jamal, Jazz Icon and fellow @NEAarts Jazz Master. Ahmad was my brother Charlie’s favorite pianist. His impact on the world of music will be missed but never forgotten. Thank you Ahmad for being a pioneer of Jazz techniques for over 70 years! pic.twitter.com/7d8m0NdYic — Eddie Palmieri (@EddiePalmieri) April […]
As we transition into 2024, let’s look back and remember the long list of musicians who shared their gifts with us for a lifetime, and who passed on to join the ancestors in 2023. They represented every Black musical genre, with some excelling in multiple styles. According to my editor, we lost far too many musical […]
The U.S. Air Force said on Tuesday that all eight of the airmen aboard the CV-22 Osprey that crashed in waters off southern Japan last week were believed to have been killed, and that the military was now focused on recovering their remains and debris from the aircraft. “The honorable service of these eight airmen […]
A storm in the Black Sea took down power grids and left almost half a million people without power after it flooded roads, ripped up trees and damaged buildings in Crimea, Russian state news agency Tass said November 27, 2023, 4:31 AM ET • 2 min read Almost half a million people have been left […]