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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court with Donald Trump and using his powerful position . . .
By Tamara Shiloh Robert A. Pelham Jr. was a prominent African American figure with a diverse career. Born in 1859 in Virginia, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he excelled in public education and began working for the Daily Post newspaper. In the 1880s, he co-founded and edited The Detroit Plaindealer, a newspaper that […]
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan U.S. stocks have surfed through multiple crosscurrents over the past week – from the blistering spike in Treasury yields to the Middle East shock at the weekend – but they remain on board amid what the IMF sees as “remarkable” U.S.
Colette Pichon Battle Colette Pichon Battle has been admired for her leadership for over 15 years, as she has lifted up and fought for her community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She shows up in community, local, state, national, and global spaces demanding that her neighbors be seen and heard. She fights with passion […]
One of Dal’s leading scholars of Black Canadian history will unveil a new short film about Nova Scotia-born singing sensation and Dal alum Portia White at a panel event this week. Dr. Afua Cooper has invited a group of celebrated Canadian literary and cultural stalwarts to join her at this Thursday’s screening of her video […]
Welcome to “She Pivots,” the podcast in partnership with Marie Claire about women, their stories, and how their pivot became their success. Robin McBride was 25 years old when she found out she had a sister. She was living in Atlanta and less than 24 hours after receiving that life-changing letter, she was on a […]
William Klein ‘Auto-Portrait’ (1993) © William Klein, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery From everyday folks on the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, and Paris, to boxing legend Cassius Clay on the precipice of fame and Black Panther activist Eldridge Cleaver hiding from the FBI in Algeria, William Klein has said “yes” to brazen, […]
William Klein ‘Auto-Portrait’ (1993) © William Klein, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery From everyday folks on the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, and Paris, to boxing legend Cassius Clay on the cusp of fame and Black Panther activist Eldridge Cleaver hiding from the FBI in Algeria, William Klein has said “yes” to brazen, […]
In closing remarks at the 1969 U.N. General Assembly in New York, Black recalled an Apollo 12 astronaut who, while in orbit, remarked on the Earth’s beauty. “Some of us down here are not so sure,” she said. FAMILY OF SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK In June 1972, Shirley Temple Black took on one of the biggest […]
Meanwhile the tragic romance between Benny and his fiancée Cassie treads similar ground to James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk, which is fitting as, in that same 2013 interview, Brooks quoted James Baldwin’s The Price of a Ticket, in acknowledging the forebears who had paid “the price of the ticket” for his acting […]