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When Florida set out to revamp its standards for teaching Black history this spring, a natural place to turn would have been the state’s African American History Task Force. The volunteer task force — a group of Black educators, Democratic politicians and community leaders, appointed by the commissioner of education — has helped shape African […]

Autumn Ayer ’23 has been without her father for more than five years, but she can still sense his impact on her life – perhaps more than ever. Her parents met at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. Jeffrey Ayer ’97 was an English major who went on to become a teacher, […]

I find the appropriation of African American Christian music even more troubling because these hymns are not just a style or form. They contain a theological content that articulated the Black church’s longing for spiritual and physical liberation. These songs mean something to us and deserve to be treated as the sacred things that they […]

Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Bruce Bennett/Getty Images A black woman says a barista at an American Starbucks wrote “monkey” on her cup. The company said the word was written “mistakenly.” “How was that a labelling error?” Monique Pugh asks. “I was the only black person in the store.”  For more stories visit Business Insider. A black […]

Almost the first thing Daniel Vangarde says when he walks into the Paris office of his record label is that he’s never done an interview in English before. Then again, he adds, he had never done an interview in his native French either until this morning. He never bothered talking to journalists at the height […]

Placeholder while article actions load Last May, after a local official lost a family member to gun violence, Katherine “Kat” Massey submitted a letter to the Buffalo News calling for better federal oversight of firearms. Mass shootings and street violence are on the rise, she wrote, and the 2021 incident she referenced was “another . […]

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony. On TV and in film, white authorship of Black stories has long been a point of contention, whether it was David Simon writing about […]


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