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With social media serving as a mood board for naturalistas, the emergence of traditional braiders has been taking over our timelines. You’re missing out on the beautiful tresses if you haven’t seen some styles spiraling around the web (figuratively and literally). The red carpet-worthy styles have taken on names like the “Puffi, Spiral, and Poodle […]

Actress Whoopi Goldberg, featured in African American Lives, premiering on PBS In celebration of Black History Month, PBS will debut African American Lives on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. The four-part series, a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Kunhardt Productions, traces the family trees of an accomplished group of African Americans, including actress Whoopi Goldberg, […]

North Carolina native Hiram Revels was the first Black person to serve in the U.S. Senate. But his legacy expands beyond his time in the Senate, and his roles in ministry and education solidify his influence. Kelli Cardenas Walsh, an associate professor of history at Fayetteville State University, said Revels was born in Fayetteville on Sept. 27, 1827. Though […]

Around the time Henry Ford’s Detroit assembly lines began making the latest in automotive technology available to the masses, traffic was similarly increasing overhead. A little over 20 years after Orville and Wilbur Wright pioneered powered flight, the industry was soaring. Speculators were bulldozing farmland into airstrips anywhere they thought they could generate enough business, […]

Actress Whoopi Goldberg, featured in African American Lives, premiering on PBS In celebration of Black History Month, PBS will debut African American Lives on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. The four-part series, a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Kunhardt Productions, traces the family trees of an accomplished group of African Americans, including actress Whoopi Goldberg, […]

Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat  I tried to get away but I couldn’t get far  ‘Cause the man with the tow truck repossessed my car. It was 1982, and as New York was emerging from one of the worst financial crises in its history, […]

Black History Month at Roots 101 African American History Museum in Louisville  WAVE 3 Source link

The Welcome to Golden sign on Washington Avenue in downtown on September 19, 2023 in Golden, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) We are experiencing a systematic attack on the truthful telling of history. This should concern us all. At a time when dedicated national efforts attempt to prevent or reframe the teaching […]

Tom HamiltonSenior WriterOct 26, 2023, 05:30 PM ET11 Minute Read Who holds the upper hand in the Rugby World Cup final?The ESPN Scrum Reset team look ahead to the Rugby World Cup final, debating what kind of game will play out and which players hold the key. PARIS, France — Tana Umaga was nervous. It […]

Tom HamiltonSenior WriterOct 26, 2023, 05:30 PM ET11 Minute Read Who holds the upper hand in the Rugby World Cup final?The ESPN Scrum Reset team look ahead to the Rugby World Cup final, debating what kind of game will play out and which players hold the key. PARIS, France — Tana Umaga was nervous. It […]


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