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Dr. Nicole Pulliam”When did you fall in love with higher ed?” A remix of the unforgettable question from one of my favorite movies, Brown Sugar — a story about identity, belonging, and the complicated beauty of loving something even as it changes. This is a love letter for those of us who once fell hard […]
The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades Smithsonian Magazine Source link
President Donald Trump’s executive order ending diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the federal government has resulted in the deletion of a U.S. Army website page about a military base renamed for a World War I hero. Sergeant Henry Johnson, a native of Albany, enlisted in 1917 with the all-Black 15th New York National Guard […]
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THERE’S A GOOD chance you don’t know the Battle of Mogadishu outside of a not-so-little movie called Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott (
Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning 2002 movie Black Hawk Down famously portrayed the story of the Battle of Mogadishu, when Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by Somali forces in 1993. But the film was fictional, largely focusing on . . .
Surviving Black Hawk Down, a three-part docuseries on Netflix, revisits the events of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu through the voices of those who lived it. Unlike Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film Black Hawk Down, which dramatized the mission using accounts from US soldiers, this series presents firsthand testimonies from both American military personnel and […]
The Story of ‘Not Like Us’ The New York Times Source link
Councilwoman Heather Hutt, Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Councilman Curren Price will kick-off L.A.’s Black History Month celebration. (Leroy Hamilton photo) Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson along with Councilmembers Curren Price and Heather Hutt, will kick off Black History Month at City Hall. The celebration takes place on Friday, Feb. 7, at 9:30 […]
“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. It takes approximately 30 seconds of conversation with Janelle Jones, the chief economist and policy director of one of the largest labor unions in the United States, to learn where she’s from and why it matters. “I’m from Ohio! Is that not […]