Vivian was African American, and I was the only white person in the house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As the only African American First Lady to set foot in the White House, I was “other” almost by default. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In his church recitals he broke with tradition and featured classical songs by European composers along with traditional African American spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Black elites found they had much to gain by positioning themselves as “race managers,” and many poor African Americans became persuaded that perhaps their degraded status was, after all, their own fault. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two people went to the principal’s office, one was African American and the other was Hispanic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For an African American living in the Deep South in the 1960s, voting was not just a forbidden act, it was a dangerous act. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She found an empty table in the African American literature section. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One of the few African American doctors in Washington, Purvis was a surgeon at the Freedmen's Hospital. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Redemption” resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the effective abandonment of African Americans and all those who had fought for or supported an egalitarian racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Following the tradition established by Roland Hayes and other African American concert vocalists, she concluded each of her programs with a group of spirituals that often moved her audiences to tears. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When a crime is committed by a black man, it’s mentioned in the first breath: “An African American man was arrested today...” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

African American leader Booker T. Washington shared this view, opposing suffrage on the grounds that giving women the vote would undermine their moral and domestic influence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

These gross racial disparities simply cannot be explained by rates of illegal drug activity among African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

African Americans made up 56 percent of the inmate population, Hispanics comprised another 32 percent, and whites around 10 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

These laws operated to create an all-white electorate because they excluded African Americans from the franchise but were not generally applied to whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They are legally denied the ability to obtain employment, housing, and public benefits—much as African Americans were once forced into a segregated, second-class citizenship in the Jim Crow era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The practice of striking all or almost all African American potential jurors continued virtually unchanged after the Court's ruling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Male advocates who had once been their allies told the women to support the Fifteenth Amendment and wait until African American men secured their rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A new candidate appeared, the man who would become the city’s first African American mayor, Coleman A. Young. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Two more people entered the room: a gum-chewing African American teenage girl wearing a lavender sweat suit, followed by a thirty-year-old well-dressed white guy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

This phenomenon helps to explain why studies indicate that white people with a criminal record may actually have an easier time gaining employment than African Americans without a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In every state across our nation, African Americans—particularly in the poorest neighborhoods—are subjected to tactics and practices that would result in public outrage and scandal if committed in middle-class white neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A number of them had parents who were lawyers or doctors and seemed to know one another through an African American social club called Jack and Jill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I was going to say ‘young African American woman.’” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The two smartest kids in my kindergarten class were Teddy, a Korean American boy, and Chiaka, an African American girl, who both would remain at the top of the class for years to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun occasionally stopped there for lunch, and was eating there that day when he saw an exceptionally tall African American woman enter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The White House butlers who staffed the residence, mostly African American men who were our age or older, stood poised to help us with anything we needed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d never been someone who dwelled on the more demoralizing parts of being African American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Arden Jones is an African American foil fencer who won individual silver at the national championship, but wasn’t able to lead the USA team to glory at the International Grand Prix. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A thin, light-skinned African American woman dressed in a beautifully tailored suit, she was soft-spoken and strikingly serene, with a steady brown-eyed gaze and an impressive grasp of how the city functioned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

African American boys made up less than 30 percent of Oakland’s underage population but accounted for nearly 75 percent of all juvenile arrests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the Black Lives Matter movement have demonstrated against the deaths of many other African Americans killed by police actions or while in police custody. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some 500,000 slaves were brought here, and there were four million enslaved African Americans at the time of emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Guardians volunteer some of their time to tutor and counsel young African Americans. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although many poor African Americans rejected the philosophies, tactics, and strategies of the black elite, ultimately moral uplift ideology became the new common sense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Other social issues also arise because Mrs. Lacks was an African American Woman. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There he became the first African American to achieve an international reputation as a concert singer. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because Ginny was a white girl, and Armpit was older and an African American, she had just assumed he worked for her family. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Private industries throughout the country made millions of dollars with free convict labor, while thousands of African Americans died in horrific work conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The victims, all African Americans, had welcomed an unemployed twenty-one-year-old white man—a stranger to them all—into their Bible study group. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On February 9, 1864, two African American men carried large bundles of petition rolls into the Senate chamber. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In every great change in the lives of African Americans we see the hand of events that were beyond our individual control, events that were not unalloyed goods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The book is about a young African American teenager named Rufus, who gets out of juvenile hall, lives in the projects, and tries to find his biological father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of African American men and women worked long hours in defense factories throughout the nation to supply the military with arms, provisions, and more. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In other words, voters could grant suffrage to African American men, to white women, to neither group, or to both groups, which would include African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So rather than choosing between the rights of women and the rights of African Americans, the American Equal Rights Association adopted a memorial favoring a position of gender and racial unity. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During Black History Month, Americans congratulate themselves for having put an end to discrimination against African Americans in employment, housing, public benefits, and public accommodations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The backlash against the gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once the debate was framed as an issue of women’s rights versus African American rights, the arguments used by some female suffragists became increasingly elitist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

An African American girl was sitting a few seats away with her boyfriend. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

During the course of the litigation, the CHP produced data that showed African Americans were twice as likely, and Latinos three times as likely, to be stopped and searched by its officers as were whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was a young, neatly groomed African American man with short hair—clean-shaven, medium frame and build—wearing bright, clean prison whites. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws, even though the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From that point forward, there was a great divide between Stanton, Anthony, and others who backed educated suffrage, and those who supported working for African American suffrage first and female suffrage afterward. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Americans of mixed ethnicity will become the majority in the near future. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Disagreements within the African American community about how best to respond to systems of control—and even disagreements about what is, and is not, discriminatory—have a long history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In Deep South states, jury rolls were pulled from voting rolls, which excluded African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As African Americans obtained political power and began the long march toward greater social and economic equality, whites reacted with panic and outrage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I started doing my own research and talking to the African American girls at school, engaging in conversations with them at lunch. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But, as one of today’s most inspirational African American leaders, Bryan Stevenson, has declared, “Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when others are quiet.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I was in a poor rural county in Alabama after another trip to pull records in a death penalty case when I was invited to speak at a small African American church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Percentage of juveniles who are African American: 16. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Two Illinois delegates—both white—offered to march with Wells-Barnett in the African American section. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Farmer had first met Father Jack when the priest was at St. Mary’s parish in Roxbury, one of Boston’s run-down, largely African American neighborhoods. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, African American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., made the right to vote, the most fundamental right in any democracy, their highest priority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The notion that African Americans support “get tough” approaches to crime is further complicated by the fact that “crime” is not a generic category. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

During the continuing Great Migration of African Americans from the South, Chicago had already received more blacks than any other northern city, a total that would grow to more than twenty-five thousand. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, those millions of African Americans who had not migrated became subject to increased discrimination and acts of terror on the part of white southerners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, nationwide, the rate of incarceration for African Americans convicted of drug offenses dwarfs the rate of whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those stopped and searched were racial minorities, and more than half were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Latinos and African Americans began to walk out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But because she was an African American, she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall, Washington’s largest and finest auditorium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Valerie Jarrett was the newly appointed deputy chief of staff to the mayor of Chicago and had deep connections across the city’s African American community. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As an African American woman, with three young children who will never know a world in which a black man could not be president of the United States, I was beyond thrilled on election night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She sounded like the African American kids—in other words, the black kids from America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One hundred years after the Red Summer, and despite significant gains made by African Americans in the past century, serious racial issues continue to plague the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It could be clearly seen in the writings of African American leaders such as Richard R. Wright, a minister and editor of a black church newspaper in Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

African American women faced an even tougher road to equality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a curious thing to realize, the in-betweenness one feels being African American in Africa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Along with promises made by the agents of the northern factory owners, thousands of African Americans were influenced in their decision to migrate by the black press. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Whites comprised a mere 8 percent of people frisked by the NYPD, while African Americans accounted for 85 percent of all frisks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She also used to be an astronaut, one of the few female African American ones. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

A thoughtful African American man in a three-piece suit and a bow tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

With the act’s passage, African Americans finally gained the full political power so long denied them. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She explained that the African American women were to march with the all-black contingent at the back of the parade. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Following slavery, for example, there were some African Americans who supported disenfranchisement because they believed that black people were not yet “ready” for the vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were some white, Latino, and Asian kids on the floor as well, but the overwhelming majority of students seemed to be African American. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Because African Americans and Latinos are targeted by police in the War on Drugs, it is far more likely that they will be arrested for minor, nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Percentage of African American youths who do their time in an adult prison: 58. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Members of the newly formed all-black Delta Sigma Theta sorority of Howard College also joined the procession, knowing that if they didn’t stand up for their rights, African American women would undoubtedly be left behind. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It is precisely because we, as a nation, have not cared much about African Americans that we have allowed our criminal justice system to create a new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As he pursued pre-med studies, he began making friends among African American, Asian, and Hispanic students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At the time, there were just seven nonwhite Republicans in Congress—none of them African American and only one was a woman. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was also increased concern that, without greater equality for African Americans, blacks would become susceptible to communist influence, given Russia’s commitment to both racial and economic equality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, surveys consistently show that African Americans are generally less supportive of harsh criminal justice policies than whites, even though blacks are far more likely to be victims of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I argue that the shame and stigma of the “prison label” are, in many respects, more damaging to the African American community than the shame and stigma associated with Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Emmett’s death made a difference. His death began the African American Civil Rights Movement.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“My dad was the only Asian in like a hundred-mile radius. The next town over was like ninety-six percent African American, so I saw nonwhite people all the time, but I was definitely an anomaly.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

African Americans lived in racially segregated ghettos isolated by railroad tracks within small towns or in "colored sections" in the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

African Americans, largely excluded from this new industry, found themselves confronting new economic challenges even as they won basic civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

More intriguing was my early discovery that there was such a thing as an African American elite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They hired more than thirty-five thousand unskilled African Americans and Mexicans to work in the mills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The other girl, who had the little boy by the shoulders, was African American, as was the little boy himself. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This strategy worked to some extent for a segment of the African American community, particularly those who had access to education and relative privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1992, the stakes again felt high: Another African American candidate, Carol Moseley Braun, had surprised everyone by narrowly winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, for example, of the fifty thousand African Americans who have taken the Race IAT so far, about half of them, like me, have stronger associations with whites than with blacks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a fairly consistent finding is that punitiveness and hostility almost always increase when people are primed—even subliminally—with images or verbal cues associated with African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The summer of 1919 would see a rise in action by African Americans, fighting for equality in the face of widespread racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To offset the solitude, I joked around with Lorraine, my assistant, a hyperorganized, good-humored African American woman several years my senior who sat just outside my office and answered my phone. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In that study, 60 percent of viewers who saw a story with no image falsely recalled seeing one, and 70 percent of those viewers believed the perpetrator to be African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perkins High School—now integrated, but still the pride of the African American community. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not only are African Americans far more likely to be labeled criminals, they are also more strongly affected by the stigma of a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to ask about health insurance once I meet Carlotta, the middle-aged African American woman who will be training me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during the Red Summer that African Americans began to organize and fight back against white violence and oppression. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But in his speeches, he tried to convince audiences that giving African Americans the rights of citizenship would undermine white society and safety. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then came the state delegations, which, for fear of upsetting the white majority, did not include African American members. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Most white people believed African Americans lacked the proper motivation to work, prompting the provisional Southern legislatures to adopt the notorious black codes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The African American woman in question was Ida Wells-Barnett, who planned to come from Chicago to Washington, DC, to march side by side with her suffrage sisters from Illinois. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Roughly half of the students are African American; the rest are Hispanic. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl I had three best friends who happened to be Chinese, African American, and Caucasian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the number of incoming African Americans in a particular neighborhood reached a certain point — 20 percent, say — sociologists observed that the community would “tip”: most of the remaining whites would leave almost immediately. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In other instances, the words were spoken over images of African American residents wilting in the heat outside the Morial Convention Center or standing on rooftops waving for help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sonya, the tiny African American woman across from me, seems frozen in terror. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kemp on African American defendants throughout the criminal justice system, including those ensnared by the War on Drugs, need only ask Edward Clary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pearson used his peremptory strikes to exclude all but one of the handful of African Americans who had been summoned to serve on the jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only 5 percent of the drivers on the road were African American or Latino, but more than 80 percent of the people stopped and searched were minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Included in the historic development was the election of Carol Mosely Braun, the first African American woman US senator in history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve been the only woman, the only African American, in all sorts of rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Poor and working-class whites in both the North and South, no less than African Americans, responded positively to the New Deal, anxious for meaningful economic relief. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is also why the Civil Rights Movement initially met significant resistance among some African Americans in the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Walter's freedom was, for some of the white people in town, well beyond what African Americans with limited education were able to achieve through legitimate means. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So long as some readily identifiable African Americans are doing well, the system is largely immunized from racial critique. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom and dad sell the store to an African American couple. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

To give voting rights to African Americans over women was to endorse what Stanton called the “aristocracy of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

African Americans, as a group, are no better off than they were in 1968 in many respects. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was African American, stood almost six feet tall, and wore a white turban on her head and a gray dress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The majority of my teachers treat me as if I, and I alone, hold the answers to the mysterious creatures that African Americans are, like I’m the Rosetta Stone of black people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It will never be known exactly how many African Americans were lynched in 1919 or in the years preceding or following that pivotal year. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And the voting rights of African Americans in the South were restricted until President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I began talking to my parents about what I was learning from my African American friends at school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The residents were not only overwhelmingly African American, but generally considerably older. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My older sister had a boyfriend who was African American. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the first African American family in the White House, we were being viewed as representatives of our race. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For many African American voters, the Populist approach was preferable to the paternalism of liberals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anthony didn’t see the amendment as progress for African American men; she saw it as “an outrage against women.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

What is completely missed in the rare public debates today about the plight of African Americans is that a huge percentage of them are not free to move up at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the ministers, a heavyset African American man dressed in a dark suit with a large cross around his neck, walked over to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All four were African American, between thirty and forty-five. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Walter couldn't escape the reality of racism, but having his own business in a growing sector of the economy gave him a latitude that many African Americans did not enjoy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As sociologist Bruce Western has shown, the notion that the 1990s—the Clinton years—were good times for African Americans, and that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d end up in a neighborhood to the south, an area known as Pill Hill due to an apparently large number of African American doctors living there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sanford, the Supreme Court immunized the institution of slavery from legal challenge on the grounds that African Americans were not citizens, and in Plessy v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She supported suffrage as a means of improving the working conditions of children and African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We knew of the phenomenon called the Bradley effect, named for an African American candidate, Tom Bradley, who’d run for governor in California in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He'd made his displeasure clear to the campaign staff, suggesting that the move showed a disregard for the African American community and would end up hurting Barack’s candidacy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A National Law Journal survey from the time found that in large firms African Americans made up not quite 3 percent of all associates and less than 1 percent of all partners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That reality helps to explain why African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington urged blacks to focus on improving themselves rather than on challenging racial discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Several weeks before the parade, an African American sorority from Howard University asked to march with the college women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When, for example, he posed the rhetorical question, “Is survival possible when civilization reverts to the law of the jungle?” his devoted listeners recognized the reference to Africa and African Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But as an African American, he was not only targeted by the drug war but then denied access to housing because of his conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But a twenty- two-year-old African American boxer from Detroit, named Joe Louis, stood in Schmeling’s way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had only referred to his race in two ways—as African American and black—terms that had become popular after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The same drug that had been considered fearsome twenty years earlier, when associated with African Americans and Latinos, was refashioned as a relatively harmless drug when associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the school library that day, I joined a circle of twenty-two Harper students—all African American, mostly juniors and seniors—who were seated in chairs and on couches, dressed in khakis and collared shirts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The marchers knew where they were expected to stand, with one notable exception: the African American marchers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a movement in which African Americans seized upon their first chances for group expression and self-determination. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It was estimated that about 400,000 African Americans in the state were eligible to vote but still unregistered, the majority in and around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The others assumed that Wells-Barnett had resigned herself to joining the other African Americans at the back of the line. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is an international activist movement that began in the African American community and campaigns against oppression and systemic violence against black people. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The sheriff was referring to the lynching of a young African American man named Michael Donald in Mobile, about sixty miles south. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The National objected to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and favored educated female suffrage; the American supported female suffrage and did not oppose voting rights for any African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Obama’s stated positions on criminal justice reform suggest that he is opposed to the War on Drugs and the systematic targeting of African Americans for mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We have allowed ourselves to be willfully blind to the emergence of a new caste system—a system of social excommunication that has denied millions of African Americans basic human dignity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In Idaho, the two rarely saw an African American. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include people who are behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Numerous black colleges were located in Atlanta, and the city was home to the South’s largest population of college-educated African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All but one of the people arrested were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Suffrage for African American men had become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If an African American calls you a Mandingo or a booty scratcher, he is insulting you for being African. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

African American newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, the most widely read black publication, and the Pittsburgh Courier continually published editorials and cartoons showing the great advantages of moving from the South to the North. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Other white women didn’t think the African American women belonged in the parade at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was tall and African American, with a shaved head, glasses, and an easy, sympathetic manner. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Young African American men were the only group to experience a steep increase in joblessness between 1980 and 2000, a development directly traceable to the increase in the penal population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bottom line, it’s been over two centuries, and African Americans are still getting a raw deal. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were mostly African American, with a sprinkling of Hispanic-looking kids, as young as kindergartners and as old as high schoolers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It began in the 1960s with the rise in popularity of wigs made with South Korean hair in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was quickly learning that I was not considered African American, even though I was from Africa and I was living in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And there was white resentment also over the fact that a significant number of African Americans had moved into previously segregated white neighborhoods. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Many African Americans today believe that uplift ideology worked in the past and ought to work again—forgetting that ultimately it took a major movement to end the last caste system, not simply good behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the early 1900s, Madam C. J. Walker, an African American, became a millionaire by inventing and marketing hair care products to black women. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This sent a clear message to lawmakers and future politicians and reestablished a feeling that seemed to have been lost when Harold Washington died: The African American vote mattered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A seemingly colorblind system has emerged that locks millions of African Americans into a permanent undercaste, and it appears that those who are trapped within it could have avoided it simply by not committing crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I went to the awards conference at Princeton University and met kids from all over the country—American Muslims, Native Americans, African Americans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One of the more experienced butlers, a white-haired African American man named James Ramsey, had served since the Carter administration. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, King specifically stated on numerous occasions that he believed special—even preferential—treatment for African Americans may be warranted in light of their unique circumstances. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His jury was illegally selected, excluding African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a brief period of progress during Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves, once again, virtually defenseless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d seen many examples in his practice, which was made up mostly of working-class African Americans. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I noticed there were some Hispanics at the next bus stop where some African American people were waiting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most important of all, the resistance that African Americans demonstrated during the riots in Washington, Chicago, Elaine, and elsewhere were the first stirrings of what would develop into a movement that would change America forever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The bus driver told them she would call the police, so the African Americans got off the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I live in an area where Asians, Latinos, and African Americans are the majority. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The lecture is on African American history, and the professor is someone I’ve read about online. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Austin Police Department had better things to do than investigate who had sold counterfeit tickets to an African American teenager who lived on the wrong side of I-35. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the incarcerated population is counted in unemployment and poverty rates, the best of times for the rest of America have been among the worst of times for African Americans, particularly black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No African Americans were allowed inside the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The only other memory I have of her is from fifth grade when she snapped at a teacher who kept calling her African American. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate and strategic effort to deflect anger and hostility that had been brewing against the white elite away from them and toward African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She became a role model, inspiring generations of African American performers who followed her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She’s the one who introduced him to the African American karate master. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

As an African American with roots in Long Beach, he saw the value of supporting our unique family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No one visiting the website would learn that the mass incarceration of African Americans had already eviscerated many of the hard-earned gains it urged its members to protect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some other desis, an African American family, a few people who look like they might be from the Middle East. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

These special challenges served to make African American women leaders more determined than ever to pursue their cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Denying African Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the formation of the original union. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Imagine if civil rights organizations and African American leaders in the 1940s had not placed Jim Crow segregation at the forefront of their racial justice agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clearly a much better set of options could be provided to African Americans—and poor people of all colors—today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the jaw-dropping impact of the “get-tough” movement on the African American community, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans revealed any inclination to slow the pace of incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tito and some fellow Liberians were walking up the street when they ran into an African American teenager they knew, walking with his mother and her boyfriend. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The churning of African Americans in and out of prisons today is hardly surprising, given the strong message that is sent to them that they are not wanted in mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a wrenching exposure of our country’s structural divides, most especially the intense, lopsided vulnerability of African Americans and poor people of all races when things got rough. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Someone, meanwhile, had dug up my senior thesis from Princeton, written more than two decades earlier—a survey that looked at how African American alumni felt about race and identity after being at Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A black minister in Waterloo, Mississippi, explained his outrage at the fate that has befallen African Americans in the post-civil rights era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A heavyset African American girl sat in the RV’s driver seat, clutching the wheel tightly and staring straight ahead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, as I began to learn and speak more English, the African American kids started accusing me of sounding “white.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her chance came when she was offered a fellowship to study in Germany by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a foundation that awarded educational grants to African Americans. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, for nearly three decades, news stories regarding virtually all street crime have disproportionately featured African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nationally, 58 percent of all incarcerated African American youths are serving their time in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“An African American? Oh, evil! But then it’s this trans kid wearing a skirt. What?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The crack epidemic, which had ravaged African American communities in places like Detroit and New York, was only just reaching Chicago, but its course was no less destructive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

White resentment against the African American newcomers was present from the start, and tensions continued to mount. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To put the matter starkly: the current system of control permanently locks a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic that would continue to prove successful for generations to come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The politics of respectability made sense to many black reformers during the Jim Crow era, since African Americans had no vote, could not change policy, and lived under the constant threat of the Klan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the parade, the issue of where the African American women would march remained up in the air. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to march across a freeway to support African Americans. Besides, it’s a school night.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Percentage of incarcerated youths who are African American: 41. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported in 2000 that white youth aged 12–17 are more than a third more likely to have sold illegal drugs than African American youth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Durango Street is about an African American teenager named Rufus, who was just released from juvenile hall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Voting rights were taken away from African Americans, and a series of racially restrictive laws enforced the racial hierarchy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was an injustice too great for the African American witnesses to ignore. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This book focuses on the experience of African American men in the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown, who coached volleyball. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Again, African Americans have been “crucified by conscientious blindness.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They excluded African American women from their efforts to secure the vote, fearing that it would be more difficult to gain favor for the cause among the powerful white male populace. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

During the Reconstruction era, African Americans began to serve on juries in the South for the first time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

African Americans line up to register as voters at the Dallas County Courthouse during the 1965 Selma, Alabama, voting rights campaign. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense in Illinois are African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d made a point of including the Tuskegee Airmen, the history-making African American pilots and ground crews who fought in World War II, among his guests. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now, all of the sudden in New York City, my roommates were ironically African American, Caucasian, and Asian, just like my best friends back in elementary school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was still no specific mention of African American women, who, along with African American men, would continue to be disenfranchised by state laws, especially in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Most African Americans, including Armpit’s family, lived in the flatlands of east Austin. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of the roughly six hundred African American boys who started Oakland high schools as freshmen each year, only about three hundred ended up graduating. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet another notable difference between Jim Crow and mass incarceration is that many African Americans seem to support the current system of control, while most believe the same could not be said of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jared: I’m just sick of people suggesting African Americans still have it so hard these days. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This particular form of discrimination altered the destinies of generations of African Americans, including many of the men in my family, limiting their income, their opportunity, and, eventually, their aspirations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ads were posted in Spain to attract sugar workers there; even a few African Americans came from the mainland. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For black activists like Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, and many others, it was impossible to separate one’s status as a woman from one’s status as an African American. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Racial terror and the constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, in New Jersey, whites were almost twice as likely to be found with illegal drugs or contraband as African Americans, and five times as likely to be found with contraband as Latinos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The elected leaders of the African American community have a much broader mandate than civil rights groups, but they, too, frequently overlook criminal justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After presenting the data and making my arguments about the unconstitutional exclusion of African Americans, the judge complained loudly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The media frenzy the campaign inspired simply could not have come at a worse time for African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the years immediately following the events in Washington, Chicago, and Elaine, it became increasingly clear that, rather than be diminished by the riots, African Americans were emboldened by them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, granting African American men the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At a pretrial hearing, I once argued against the exclusion of African Americans from the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Carol Moseley Braun also won decisively, becoming the first African American woman ever to hold a Senate seat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But keeping students from going to school is usually counterproductive, and suspensions have been shown to disproportionately target African American males. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because African Americans were poor, they frequently could not pay poll taxes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The predicament African Americans find themselves in today is not altogether different from the situation they faced during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I say to a very pretty African American girl in a wool skirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They believed that if this small, lone African American woman could take such a courageous stand, then they could, too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although slavery is mostly associated with the American South, the entire country, as it grew, benefitted from the enslavement of people, primarily Africans and African Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa Parks is an African American woman who was living in the segregated South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Alabama and across the South during the early 1960s, African Americans were denied the most fundamental right in a democracy—the right to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early January, an African American woman had asked if she could participate in the parade, and Alice Paul assured her that she was welcome. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was on his way, in fact, to becoming one of the first African Americans to be widely viewed as a hero by ordinary white Americans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone thought the group should support the rights of both African Americans and women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were given dedicated teachers, first Mr. Martinez and then Mr. Bennett, both gentle and good-humored African American men, both keenly focused on what their students had to say. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He went on to become the first African American to join Selma’s fire department and rose through the ranks to become Fire Chief. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I know some people would say “Now, Joyce, it’s not every day one finds an African American in advanced placement and honors courses.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the earliest days of colonial settlement and black slavery, African Americans have faced violence and setbacks even as progress has been made. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“So when African Americans say Black lives matter, can you see how they aren’t saying that other people’s lives don’t matter?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And this is not an argument that affirmative action has made no difference in the lives of poor or working-class African Americans—as some have claimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The growing spatial mismatch of jobs had a profound impact on African Americans trapped in ghettos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The African Americans who come to our meetings are the ones who write poems about Mother Africa and think every African is a Nubian queen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I also began to understand why hair is such an important issue for African American women. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Many African American women joined these widespread clubs and participated in what amounted to a grassroots campaign to gain the vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A multicultural interpretation of US history emphasizes only the “contributions” of groups that were ignored in the dominant origin myth, including Indigenous peoples, women, African Americans, and immigrants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Undeniably, though, one major draw for black audiences was simply seeing fellow African Americans on stage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Phillips and other Republican leaders encouraged women to be patient and wait until African American men secured their right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Throughout our history, there have been African Americans who, for a variety of reasons, have defended or been complicit with the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Without the collaboration of both the Caucasians and the African Americans they would not have won the battle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some women accepted the Fourteenth Amendment as a step toward democracy for African American men, assuming that women’s rights would follow. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, many whites during the Jim Crow era sincerely believed that African Americans were inferior, and that segregation was a sensible system for managing a society comprised of fundamentally different and unequal people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was an African American Male Achievement Program to mentor black boys. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Do African Americans want to pressure Obama on any issue, let alone issues of race? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mom, E.J., and Lee Lee keep on talking, comparing the experience of African Americans and Native Americans in the United States. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m Black, Mom. African American. That’s what I put on my official school tests when they ask. I’m Black and I’m proud of that.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

For many African Americans, the use of wholly discretionary peremptory strikes to select a jury of twelve remained a serious barrier to serving on a jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Neither African American men nor white women were granted the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The leadership told the Illinois delegation to follow Paul’s request and have Wells-Barnett march with the other African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Local jury commissions used statutory requirements that jurors be “intelligent and upright” to exclude African Americans and women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A number of African American performers, among them Roland Hayes, Alberta Hunter, and Josephine Baker, escaping racism in the United States, had enjoyed successful careers in England and France. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, each time you say it, the word hurts African Americans,” a pale, shaggy-haired boy in front said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now he saw that there were six of them—five white men and one African American woman. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even so, he faced the same barriers of racial prejudice that confronted all African American artists of the time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He pushed back against the feelings of failure that permeated so many African American communities, urging people to quit with the self-pity and take charge of their own destiny. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

African Americans throughout the South responded with great hope and enthusiasm, eager to be true partners in a struggle for social justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As had happened before, former allies of African Americans—as much as conservatives—adopted a political strategy that required them to prove how “tough” they could be on “them,” the dark-skinned pariahs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The South was solidly Democratic, embittered by the war, firmly committed to the maintenance of a racial caste system, and extremely hostile to federal intervention on behalf of African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Black minstrelsy was the first large-scale opportunity for African Americans to enter show business. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So in an attempt at compromise, Paul suggested that the African American suffragists march as a bloc at the back of the parade. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The one thing that is clear from the survey data and ethnographic research is that African Americans in ghetto communities experience an intense “dual frustration” regarding crime and law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They point to violent crime rates in the African American community as a justification for the staggering number of black men who find themselves behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I look around as people take seats in our segregated sections—South Asian, African American, Arab, Southeast Asian. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Women’s rights advocate Frances Dana Barker Gage worried about the status of African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As the white Mississippians advanced on Arkansas in their various vehicles, they fired out of windows at every African American they saw. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the current era, white Americans are often eager to embrace token or exceptional African Americans, particularly when they go out of their way not to talk about race or racial inequality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The North was overwhelmingly Republican and, while Republicans were ambivalent about equality for African Americans, they were far more inclined to adopt and implement racial justice reforms than their Democratic counterparts below the Mason-Dixon line. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Maryland studies produced similar results: African Americans comprised only 17 percent of drivers along a stretch of I-95 outside of Baltimore, yet they were 70 percent of those who were stopped and searched. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the era of mass incarceration, poor African Americans are not given the option of great schools, community investment, and job training. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks, as I learned more about American history, I started to understand more about what it meant to be African American, and the ongoing and complex fight for equality. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when the African American’s father was not allowed to vote because he was black, the Ugandan’s father was running for parliament or studying at Oxford,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was seventy-three percent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

At first glance, she might have been African American. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The community invests in John so that he can one day return and teach African American children who are barred from attending the public school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But do African Americans want the media to talk about Obama’s drug use? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And I wouldn’t care if my parents were Caucasian or African American either. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Far from being a worthy goal, however, colorblindness has proved catastrophic for African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Failing to do so, they argued, was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment and would expose African Americans to a high risk of discriminatory stops and searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Black minstrels were largely viewed as celebrities, earning more money and achieving more fame than African Americans ever had before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Lots more African Americans play for the majors.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, this chapter responds to skeptics who claim that mass incarceration cannot be understood as a racial caste system because many “get tough on crime” policies are supported by African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

African Americans, Latinos, and Asians now make up the majority of the student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since postslavery days and through to modern times, debate has raged in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

What was unspoken but obvious was that he was a brother, and in our office, which employed more than four hundred lawyers, only about five full-time attorneys were African American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Frustration and anger were boiling over in the largely African American inner cities, leading to riots and brutal confrontations between the protestors and police. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Attorney General Tom C. Clark developed a list of these organizations, which included everything from African American civil rights groups to labor unions and virtually anyone associated with communism or the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Curly, textured hair, the natural hair of many African Americans, was seen as bad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When African Americans began to exercise their right to vote in the 1970s, there was deep concern among some prosecutors and judges about how the racial demographics in some counties would complicate their reelections. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Biased police practices are also nothing new, a recurring theme of African American experience since blacks were targeted by the police as suspected runaway slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But never had there been movement of African Americans on so enormous a scale. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The risk that African Americans would be unfairly targeted should have been of special concern to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In this particular rural Southern community, the population was about 27 percent black, but African Americans made up only 10 percent of the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was the first African American female artist to be given a solo show at the Whitney Museum, in 1972. Review | For beloved D.C. artist Alma Thomas, beauty wasn’t just about art. It was essential to life, too. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Decades before, in 1968, he entered into a forbidden romantic relationship with his nurse, Viola Turner, who is African American. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Home An African American man’s life takes him from rural South Carolina to the big city and back again in Samm-Art Williams’ drama. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 15-22: 'Bright Star,' 'In the Heights' and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

He was the first African American to hold the managing-editor job in the newspaper’s history. Post managing editor Kevin Merida to run ESPN’s the Undefeated 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

As the preeminent African American architect of 20th-century Los Angeles, Williams often designed houses in neighborhoods where, thanks to racial covenants, he wasn’t allowed to live. I told my mother-in-law I'd plan an L.A. architecture tour for her 80th birthday. But what buildings to choose? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

"The Brownies' Book," the Defender Junior and the children's sections of other African American weeklies gave Black children a space to tell their stories, express their anxieties and assert their ambitions. When Black kids — shut out world of children’s literature — took matters into their own hands 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

There were 18 white women, four African Americans, two Latinas and one Korean American. This group trains women to run for office. Here’s how one outraged, post-Trump class fared. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

This expansive volume of essays sheds new light on the Harlem Renaissance author, from her opposition to school integration to her use of African American vernacular. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

“The photographs are testaments to beauty and power, and he captured the Harlem community and the African American community in all its possibilities.” A Landmark Photo Archive of Black Life in New York Comes to the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Last week, I spoke with African and African American art historian Steven Nelson about these exhibitions and what shifts they might represent at the institutional level. Black women artists in L.A. museums: Good news at Hammer, but representation remains weak 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Or visibly armed African Americans walking into Starbucks to press for expansion of their “open carry” gun rights? Lonnae O’Neal: What’s underneath the forgiveness and activism? 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Certain familiar themes of the African American story — slavery, Jim Crow, urban migration, civil disobedience — are present, but at the margins. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Kendrick and her co-curator Rhea Combs worked with a team of scholars – across African American studies, gender studies, religion and sociology – to identify specific objects that would help them convey her life. The importance of being Oprah: media personality at centre of exhibition 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The project far exceeds the cost of constructing the $540 million National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open Sept. 24. Air and Space Museum’s makeover estimated at $1 billion 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Director/producer James Schaub and producer Rod Schaub will be on hand for their documentary "Up from the Bottoms," about the northern migration of African Americans in the 1940s. Langston Hughes African American Film Festival gets under way April 17 in Seattle 2010-04-07T23:21:00Z

Available online from the winery and from the Association of African American Vintners. This $14 Italian red is a gem that invites a pairing with a pot roast or pasta 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Black students protested the release of “Soul Man” — the film that depicted a white man who takes “tanning pills” to turn his skin brown to get a college scholarship for African Americans. ‘It’s a sickness’: How our culture recognizes blackface is racist — but won’t stop doing it 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Trump is deeply unpopular among African Americans — he won 8 percent of the black vote — and this is a sensitive topic for some of his supporters. Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

His MPC3000 is displayed behind a glass case at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Montgomery said that Ms. Naylor saw her novels as part of an ongoing, unfinished cycle that documented aspects of African American life. Gloria Naylor, whose novels gave voice to African American women, dies at 66 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

"The difficulties that African Americans faced in this part of the country in the 1950s and 60s, in my opinion, do not compare with what we're talking about today with same-sex marriage." History shades Arkansas' gay marriage debate 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Yoakum gave various accounts of his life — he claimed at different times to be African American and Native American. Perspective | Dawoud Bey, Jasper Johns and ‘Automania’ are among the many compelling reasons to visit museums this summer 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

For every dollar in wealth that African American and Hispanic men have, their female counterparts own one penny.  The future isn’t unisex: Reform’s big gender blind spot 2013-12-19T19:38:00Z

Sometimes Dawson supports the cause of African Americans; other times, he does not. Review | A book about the Civil War that speaks to our times, too 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

That car, and Berry’s Gibson guitar, nicknamed Maybellene, are now in the Smithsonian, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Chuck Berry at Ninety: Full Speed Ahead 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

"I don't think enough of the American film and television industry sees the gaze of what the African American woman looks on in the world." "And Just Like That" star Karen Pittman on the "sexy" missed opportunity of Nya romancing Miranda 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

Its full text: “During World War I there was a great migration north by Southern African Americans.” SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

For decades, it was a center of African American activity in segregated Washington. Thurgood Marshall Center is a gem of a resource 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

You see it much more in the African American community, where the gender disparity in college education is more extreme – you certainly see more educated women married to working-class guys.” The dating gap: why the odds are stacked against female graduates 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The molasses represents the sugar cane that was central to the American slave trade, and the pecans represent African American resilience and celebration in the South. ‘Blackness Deserves a Seat at the Seder’ 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

While King and other blues artists were increasingly performing for young white listeners, Bland preferred to tour the southern circuit and play to his core audience: African American, mature, predominantly female. Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T17:00:00Z

Now he’ll probably be the first African American or person of color to hold that seat, having triumphed over a formidable seven-person field — including a pharmaceuticals heir who spent $4 million of his own money. How a middle school principal used the Ocasio-Cortez playbook against a 16-term incumbent 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

To African Americans especially, the Confederate flag represents a darker form of rebellion, one that targets their civil rights. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

Its opening will generate national headlines and interest in the African American story, and they hope some of that attention will spill over to their institutions. Before Smithsonian’s opens, smaller African American museums grapple with a behemoth in D.C. 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

And the Americans, of course, are like African American, white, Hispanic. "American Factory" filmmakers on how the Dayton-set doc became one of the year's most joyful movies 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Development of a culturally relevant body image instrument among urban African Americans. Do you know what too fat looks like? 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The book mentions dangers, such as the Ku Klux Klan, a group whose members masked themselves in white hoods and terrorized African Americans. Rita Williams-Garcia wraps up Gaither sisters’ tale in ‘Gone Crazy in Alabama’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Photographer and New York University professor Deborah Willis explores the history of African Americans both in front of and behind the camera in a stunning exhibition of photographs from the 1890s to the present. The Week Ahead: Selena Gomez in concert, ‘Scandal’ season finale, ‘A Rap on Race’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

When the Supreme Court upheld the Voting Rights Act a year later, Southern legislators turned from preventing African Americans from voting to diluting their votes. 'Give Us the Ballot' is a sobering look at the modern struggle for voting rights in America 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Catholics represent an eighth of the city’s prison population, which is 70 percent African American and more than a third Muslim. Inside a Philadelphia prison, the pope offers inmates hope and redemption 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

This slim but persuasive volume catalogues the centuries-long efforts to derail African American progress, from post-Reconstruction racial terror to contemporary legislative actions that have disproportionately criminalized blacks and suppressed their voting rights. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Freddie Stowers, who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in battle 73 years after his death — the only African American soldier honored with this award. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

In a highly selective, conservative art form that struggles with diversity, Mack, who is African American, helped the Washington Ballet look more like its community. Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt. What will turn it around? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The museum opened in 1967 as “an outreach effort by the Smithsonian to the local African American community,” according to the museum website. Perspective | In Southeast, an embracing experience 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

After the coup, African Americans fled the city, and their property was confiscated. In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

By 1983, only about a dozen African American women had ever walked the Miss America stage. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a phrase that I think everyone uses now, but it’s definitely an African American colloquialism: We like to say the struggle is real. The Head of Charleston’s New African American Museum on Curiosity, Courage and Storytelling 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

For decades, African Americans were banned from celebrating with mainstream Mardi Gras Krewes. Mardi Gras returns to New Orleans after year of shutdowns: 'Let the good times roll!' 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Barnes was also an early champion of African American rights and educational opportunities, and temperamentally he was at odds with the Philadelphia establishment and other art collectors. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

“If it’s a popular rink or if it’s a thriving rink, it’s because they have a strong African American skate community,” says Pete, a Los Angeles custom skate designer. 'It brought me a sense of community': the fight to save US skating culture 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Mercer, for one, allows Hallberg to explore the fluid position of gay African Americans at a moment of radical change. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Her husband soared to international celebrity as the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, appearing alongside the white actor Robert Culp in the hit show “I Spy,” which debuted in 1965. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Another object, a wooden standing clock, amplifies the idea that African American artisanship was hidden in plain sight. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

A 2015 Oxford University study found the majority of African Americans and modern-day Yoruba people in West Africa have a similar ancestry, confirming that the region was a major source of African slaves . The story behind the design of the African American history museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Hairston, an African American minister in Asheville, N.C., lamented that in the South “there are two states and two cities, one white — one black.” At the Roosevelt Library, an Unflinching Look at Race 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Watts Cycle sought to sow the seeds of camaraderie between African American and Latino residents of a South L.A. neighborhood. L.A. Without the NEA: Cornerstone brings theater to the theater-less 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

A Pulitzer- and Tony-winner, “Fences” is the sixth entry in Wilson’s landmark “Century Cycle” decalogue about the 20th century African American experience, decade by decade. ICT finds the power and eternal relevance of 'Fences' 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

But, within African American drama, in regional theaters and on television shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” Jackson has long been a familiar face. LaTanya Richardson Jackson on Directing ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and Her Husband) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Early in the Northwest African American Museum’s virtual 2021 Unity Benefit, vocalist Samara Reign delivers a powerful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Arts groups got creative about fundraising during COVID, and here’s why that’s likely to stay 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

All of the plays are set in Pittsburgh’s working-class African American community, and each is set in a different decade of the 20th century. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’

We find places where African Americans or colored folks, back in the day, Black people in the '60s to be able to travel safely down in the South. "Lovecraft Country" star: "It's a shame that men and women are being accosted and lynched" today 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

But to state the obvious, the African American experience is not one of easy assimilation into mainstream culture. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

African Americans take our culinary traditions seriously in part due to a history of deprivation. Crimes against potato salad: How not to get uninvited from the cookout 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

“Maybe Gershwin created not only the chance for African Americans to grace the stage, but also to open the door to ‘Why not allow an African American to direct this opera,’ ” Smith said. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

For Alice Bonner, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is even more important than the election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president. 300 volunteers for African American museum: ‘We’re ready.’ 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

In addition to Desert Storm, they will commemorate World War I, the global war on terrorism, Native American veterans, and African Americans — both free and enslaved — who served in the American Revolution. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Angelou won a scholarship to an arts school in San Francisco, which she left briefly to become the city's first female African American cable car conductor. Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights advocate, dies at 86 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

By contrast, a study undertaken the same year by BET Network found that 80 percent of the films African Americans attend do not feature predominantly black casts. #OscarsSoWhite? It’s the audiences, not just the industry. 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The number of African American children who are home-schooled grew by roughly 10 percent, to more than 200,000, between 2012 and 2016, according to an estimate by the National Home Education Research Institute. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

His dissertation examined cognitive and physical responses to the music of West African and African American musics. Vijay Iyer continues his pursuit in transforming jazz

And there were the fictional or semi-fictional inventions–bigshots and little people, existing at the margins–immigrants and African Americans, suffragists and hustlers. REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Taylor was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is believed to be the first formally educated black architect in the U.S. Architect Robert Robinson Taylor Is Honored on a Postage Stamp 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

But for African Americans the bar is set still higher. Jamie Foxx: 'Django Unchained is supposed to make you angry' 2013-01-17T15:45:00Z

For Phelicia, her five children, and many other African Americans, roller skating is not just a passion. 'It brought me a sense of community': the fight to save US skating culture 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

But even after Jackson became the King of Pop, Cornelius believed a need existed to highlight the achievements of African Americans still marginalized at mainstream events. Don Cornelius: TV's pioneer of soul 2012-02-02T04:23:04Z

Hyppolite’s goal is to acquire an object or cooking implement from every famous African American chef, whether it’s a handwritten recipe, a pot, a hat or a menu. Why the African American museum’s food focus will go beyond soul 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

While listening to members of Reading’s historically white labor population, Nottage, who is African American, heard something almost eerily familiar. What happens when factory jobs disappear? Playwright Lynn Nottage investigates in 'Sweat' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

It published a defense of the Confederate flag two weeks after the massacre at an African American church in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist gunman who had posed with the flag. Bannon molded Breitbart into a far-right sledgehammer. How it will be wielded in the Trump era? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The monumental dignity of the African American women who dominate Winslow Homer’s 1876 composition in “The Cotton Pickers” is undiminished — and even patently current. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

In 2017, 23 percent of the 987 people shot and killed by police in the United States were African American, according to a Washington Post database. Perspective | Not everyone can fit into a crusader’s shoes 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

After 23 years as Pratt’s chief executive, Hayden, 64, will make history today as she becomes the first woman and the first African American to run the nation’s library. ‘Rock star’ Baltimore librarian makes history at Library of Congress 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Have you been seeing in New York what has been happening in the rest of the world where African American communities have just been affected like crazy? "Music can bring people together": Angela Yee on Verzuz, D-Nice and doing "Breakfast Club" from home 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

My favorite assessments were from two of my favorite writers on issues of African American food: culinary historian Michael Twitty and cookbook author Bryant Terry. Weeknight Vegetarian: Black bean tortas, hold the expletives (and the appropriation)

Many African Americans saw a ray of hope in his election, a day many never believed they would see in their lifetime. I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

And he worried about his connection with his students, especially “my African American boys. “They come up and hug me, give me a man hug,” he says. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay

For a long time, many people in African American communities believed that mainstream hair care companies lacked quality customer service and took their Black customers for granted. Black Women Make Waves in Hair Care 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Okay, and how would you describe the intersections between being Autistic and being African American? LISTEN: Black, female and autistic — hiding in plain sight 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Back in the day, real estate agents, mortgage brokers and lenders literally drew red lines on maps around neighborhoods where residents — mostly African Americans — were readily denied loans and simultaneously discouraged from moving out. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

I normally try not speak for other African Americans, but I think I represent us all when I say, “Go away!” Hell is fake-woke white people: Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi fantasy is just as grating in reality 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Once emancipated, African American women still faced staggering impediments when pursuing educational, entrepreneurial and employment opportunities. A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

There were a lot of African Americans speaking on snitching on other African Americans. "Judas and the Black Messiah" filmmakers on exposing how the FBI hunted 1960s Black activiststs 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

After Lee and Pinkett Smith announced their boycotts, Boone Isaacs – the first African American to hold the role of president, and the third woman – issued a statement promising big changes. Oscars 'unlikely to change' despite race protest, insiders suggest 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Several other museums have programs or exhibitions complementing the soon-to-open African American Museum. Exhibitions celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Life then commissioned her to paint African American women in South Carolina “as a source of fashion inspiration” for a 1941 issue. Doris Lee, Unjustly Forgotten, Gets a Belated but Full Blown Tribute 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

One shows McKeller’s recognizably African American head in meager outline transformed on the same sheet of paper into a more worked-up head of Apollo, based on a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere. Review | John Singer Sargent didn’t just paint the 1 percent. There was another, less-known side to his art. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Their gift essentially represented a kind of clarion call to other affluent blacks to address the funding challenges of black colleges and inspire all African Americans to value and support their institutions. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Smurf and I felt that, in Seattle, when it came to a voice for African Americans, it was very polarizing — either you were super outrageous and stereotypical, or you were completely conservative,” Olanrewaju said. Are you listening? 8 Seattle-area podcasters share origins, advice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

“We have African American film stars but what percentage of films are directed or written or produced by someone who is African American?” asks Mask. The slow rise of black cinema 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

And later, according to schoolmates, she attended St. Cecilia’s Academy, which was racially integrated in an era when many African Americans attended segregated schools. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

We know African Americans are incarcerated at the highest rate in the US, making up over 30% of today’s prison population even though we only make up 13% of country’s population. Don't look away from Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us," the most important series on TV now 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

He chose this spot because, in many ways, it represented a full circle for African Americans. Eyes on the prize: on the civil rights trail in Washington DC 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

Millett often begins by disassembling cloth items, with the idea of symbolically reconstructing African American experience and identity. Review | In the galleries: Acronyms as content encode a powerful commentary 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

The artist painted the high school’s entryway with a mural that depicted the first president alongside Indigenous people and enslaved African Americans. San Francisco School Board Reverses Vote on Mural Removal 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

It started, he says, following the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South, at the beginning of the 20th century. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z

In the wake of Get Out’s release, Samuel L Jackson questioned the appropriateness of casting a British actor in a role that might profitably have gone to an African American. Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Grant was the two-term president of the Reconstruction, an era of extraordinary if fleeting gains for African Americans. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The A.P. is dropping the hyphen in such terms as “African American,” “Asian American,” and “Filipino American.” Dropped Hyphens, Split Infinitives, and Other Thrilling Developments from the 2019 American Copy Editors Society Conference 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

For Williams, the lack of government action is another form of indifference toward African American communities and those who serve them. 'Inundated and overwhelmed': black undertakers struggle amid pandemic 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Why not watch Gone With the Wind and then stand around doing nothing for 51 years until Whoopi Goldberg becomes the second African American woman to win an acting Oscar? Leap year day: how you could (and should) celebrate 29 February 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

“It will portray her outside of the mystery,” said Niya Bates, the foundation’s public historian of slavery and African American life. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

But there’s an alternative view of what was taking place that several African American and female politicians explained to me, with varying levels of exasperation. Scandals usually end political careers. Not Joe Morrissey’s. 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The new production, which opens Wednesday and runs through Jan. 10, reunites the two trailblazing African American actors who first shared a stage in a 1960s production of Jean Genet's "The Blacks." James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson back on Broadway in 'Gin Game' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

“People have a stereotype that grandparents raising grandchildren are all African American,” explained Donna Butts, the executive director of Generations United, a national organization that promotes the interests of intergenerational families. Parents again: the growing number of Americans raising their grandkids 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

His mother, Jacquelyn, who died when Lee was 20, was a high-school teacher of art and African American literature, and gave him his love for cinema. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Marshall is celebrated for his large-scale paintings and sculptures depicting African American people and culture. Washington National Cathedral to replace Confederate-themed stained glass with new windows by celebrated artist Kerry James Marshall 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Naomi Sims was ascendant as perhaps the first African American top model, on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal that fall. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“What? Hold up,” a shocked Winfrey replied, a potent exchange made more so because it involved two African American women with a shared perspective. Oprah’s deft royal interview shows why she’s still the queen 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

As an African American woman, she’s curious: Which places may have been safe from racial prejudice for her 60 or 70 years ago? Nic Stone’s ‘Clean Getaway’ explores a mixed-race family and a travel adventure 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

In theaters it’s the diverse demographics, not least that, as Universal noted in its weekend box-office update, more than 40% of its opening weekend audience was Latino or African American. 'Minions': Should Hollywood make more PG movies? 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s my ambition to see West Oakland back like it was,” Ms. Mabry said 20 years ago in a taped interview with the African American Museum and Library at Oakland. In West Oakland, Barbecue Is Back — With a Side of Fried Chicken 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

The network also has "The Nightly Show," hosted by African American comedian Larry Wilmore, which premiered in January in the 11:30 slot vacated by "The Colbert Report." New 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah heralds a new frontier in TV: diversity 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The point may be that in the virulent racism of the time, the wrongly accused could have been any nine African American men. Review | Signature Theatre can’t save ‘Scottsboro Boys’ from its own self-righteousness 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

After the Civil War, many people regarded the songs as intertwined with African Americans' contributions to American culture. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Despite African Americans’ strong historical ties to farming – 14 percent of the nation’s farmers in 1920 – they abandoned the work mostly due to the legacies of slavery and discriminatory policies. African Americans shake up wine industry stereotypes 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Feldman said a job posting for a curator of African American and African diasporic art is imminent, as is the hiring of a manager of diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. National Gallery of Art director responds to allegations of harassment and diversity issues at the museum 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of Julien’s film is Alain Locke, an African American writer, critic and teacher who is credited as the intellectual father of the Harlem Renaissance. Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

He also said that Trump’s visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture was “part of his ongoing quest to find Barack Obama’s birth certificate”. Late-night TV on Trump's golfing: 'He loves making fun of people’s handicaps' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The continuing flow of Blacks to Las Vegas after the war also generated Nevada’s first middle-class housing development for African Americans, Williams’s Berkley Square of 1954. A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

It mined the historical legacies of oppression, both at home and abroad, while also celebrating the joy in the African American cultural experience and the beauty of the Black visage and form. Valerie Maynard, Artist Who Celebrated Black Identity, Dies at 85 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Why did Donald Trump ask me the question in the first place?” the African American consultant wonders in hindsight. Has Donald Trump lost even the ‘Apprentice’ vote? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps intentionally, the cover of the album did not feature a photograph of the singer, whom most DJs assumed must be African American. Obituary: Teena Marie 2010-12-27T17:57:00Z

It debuts with a preview on Saturday, the Juneteenth holiday commemorating when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free. No apology: Tavis Smiley makes comeback bid after PBS firing 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

This was the first time that African American women won in both categories. Viola Davis makes a powerful statement on diversity in moving SAG Award speech 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Black cemeteries across the country are facing the same fate Douglass Cemetery did, said Jacqueline Copeland, the executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Stockholm Syndrome” recalls the sort of African American cultural broadsides common in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the galleries: Gordon Park’s photos from the Jim Crow-era South 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

"Too many people separate African American history from history, but when you truly look at history, African American history is American history, right?" he said. "African American history is American history": Museum exhibits respond to Black Lives Matter 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

“We want to develop this new 21st century performing arts canon that focuses on telling the African American and African diaspora stories,” said Procope. Showtime: 18th Tribeca opens in Harlem with ‘The Apollo’ 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Because as history tells us, Nixon really settled down and took it easy on the left and African Americans once he got down to the important work of being president. Under the “circle of doom”: Fox News gives us the season finale of its Trump boosting coverage 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Black people in the district, which is more than 50 percent African American, were not as keen on Bush’s ambition. Cori Bush marched on the streets in Ferguson. Now she’s about to take her seat in Congress. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Restored by Anthology Film Archives and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, “No Vietnamese” is a historical document with contemporary relevance. G.I.s ‘Without a Country,’ Protesting the Vietnam War 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

I hate the phrase 'African American'," he says, "because 'black' is beautiful. Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z

Parks’s accomplishments are especially remarkable given the limited choices he faced as a young African American male. The best children’s books for February 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Bear — born in Saigon to a Vietnamese mother and an African American G.I. father — arrives in 1975. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

On public display for the first time, "Black Dolls" is a snapshot of African American life from an era past. 'Black Dolls' at Mingei International Museum a window into the past 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Is it only wishful thinking to hope for cultivating a connection to the African American community through Copeland’s continued presence? What the Washington Ballet needs in a new director 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Isaacs, elected the academy's first African American president in August, acknowledged that the academy invited fewer women and minorities into the group this year. Motion Picture Academy aims for diversity, invites 271 to join 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

As the creative director of American Vogue, Talley was not among the few African Americans at the top of the pyramid; for decades, he was the only one. Perspective | What André Leon Talley says about fashion says a lot about how fashion has changed 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

For Bibb, an African American, another key moment in history was "The Great Migration" of millions of southern blacks away from America's segregated South. From Syria to Detroit, we are all migrants, sings bluesman Bibb 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

African American films can suffer as a result, she said: “They’re missing out on the opportunity to cast actors who can pull from their own life experiences.” Black American actors slighted as Brits nab roles: 'we can't tell our own stories?' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

A look that would become the sisters’ signature around the world was an African American tradition. In Films and on TV, a New Openness to Natural Black Hairstyles 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The task went to painter and illustrator Kadir Nelson, a chronicler of contemporary African American experience and an admirer of the sitcom. Johnsons are ‘sipping tea’ for ‘black-ish’ family portrait 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“It could have been the Poetry Museum, the African American Poetry Museum or a lot of different things. I chose American Poetry Museum because I wanted to change the way that people saw museums.” A poetry museum that eschews having a home 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Phil, is composed of mainly African American, Asian and Latino inner city kids. Gustavo Dudamel and Youth Orchestra L.A.'s Super Bowl halftime show will be a win for the arts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The initiative is a product of the Munson-Williams-Proctor’s advisory panel known as the African American Community Partners, which includes a pastor at the city’s oldest A.M.E. church. ‘It’s About Time.’ Museums Make Bids for Their Communities. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Exposure to such stereotypes can even increase the likelihood of falsely accusing African Americans of committing a fictional crime. Louis C.K. or Tina Fey? Gender, science and the age-old question: Are men or women funnier? 2014-03-15T13:30:00Z

There have been American operas dealing with very American topics, but for African Americans, we had “Porgy and Bess.” Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Win the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

He also wrote the novel “Sunrise Over Fallujah,” which is set in the first Iraq war and follows a young African American soldier through the bewildering days of combat. Walter Dean Myers, multimillion-selling children’s author, dies at 76

Ninety percent of the James’s residents are single; almost all are African American. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

I’m in this lane by myself, but I’m also helping other African American product owners get their products on the shelf, too. From Master P to Uncle P: Music mogul has turned his focus to popular line of grocery staples 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

And because they are rich with works by women and African Americans, the pieces diversify the National Gallery’s collection. National Gallery aims to integrate Corcoran works, keep its legacy alive 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“What better way to celebrate Black History Month than to have African Americans listen to a rich white guy complain that the world is unfair to him?” he said. Late-night hosts skewer Trump over travel ban: 'embarrassing and inhuman' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Evy, a teacher who carefully curates African American history for her students, voices her resentment "that yet another black man is of no use to his people." Amusing, sensitive 'Immediate Family' tackles sexual orientation, race 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

In Kansas City, Mo., an African American man, Henry Perry, became the “father of Kansas City barbecue” when he began selling smoked beef and wild game in a peppery sauce. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

“There was a lot of rhetoric, a lot of talk, a lot of concern, a lot of guilt,” said Dr. Brown, who in 1998 became the college’s first African American and its first female president. The Fashion Institute of Technology Will Open a Social Justice Center 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Q: Which countries are the most challenging for African Americans? Black & Abroad founders encourage African Americans to visit their ancestral continent 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

All the African Americans in Maycomb are standing up silently, docile in respect and gratitude to this white liberal lawyer for taking the case. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The situation affecting African Americans and Asian Americans and Mexican and Latino Americans, but this is about hate in general in our society. "Can we even break bread together?": Enduring the American Dream in a Michigan family restaurant 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

That’s right: The dream of real estate ownership and inheritable wealth, systemically denied to large percentages of African Americans in real life, is alive and well on Hallmark and Lifetime. Smart Watch: Finally, Hallmark Channel’s Christmas romances aren’t all white 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

But now you have new Jim Crow laws – the stand-your-ground law is already responsible for about 80 shooting deaths of African Americans. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Diana Ross was supposed to take the stage at theGrio’s party at the National Museum of African American History and Culture just after 11 p.m. At correspondents’ dinner scene, Vanderpump rules. (Too bad, Tucker.) 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

His work was widely considered to honor African American history. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

The city-owned park – which was one of only a few in Louisville open to African Americans until 1955 – had no signage to pay homage to the future boxing champion’s runs. Muhammad Ali’s hometown heartbreak: I went looking for Ali’s Louisville, and it wasn’t there 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

He became the paper’s first African American assistant managing editor, serving in the position for 11 years and hiring 12 photographers. On Pulitzer’s 100th anniversary, winner shares some of his favorite images 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Half of the directors are African American, which was deliberate. Perspective | How are Washington theaters doing when it comes to producing plays by women? 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Black History Month is upon us and television, as usual, is honoring the occasion with programming that highlights the vast contributions made to society and culture by African Americans. 'When I Rise' one of many TV shows celebrating Black History Month 2011-02-04T20:15:04Z

The suspect, she said, was described as an African American man between the ages of 18 and 24. Can police police their biases? 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

African Americans also spend a disproportionate amount of money on the lottery, spending five times as much on tickets than white people. The impossible dream: US gripped by 1 in 302m chance of winning the lottery 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Root, oriented toward African American culture, was formerly part of The Washington Post. Chasing millennials and profits, Univision restructures and lays off at least 200 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

“Anytime an African American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison,” he says. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

His black-and-white vignettes survey a wide swath of contemporary African American life, encapsulated in faces that often belong to children. Review | In the galleries: A visual rallying cry against gun violence 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

“It was an indictment of the white institutions needing to take notice of the African American institutions right under their noses,” Morris says. How the black radical female artists of the '60s and '70s made art that speaks to today's politics 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

The tenor of the criticism of White, who is African American, prompted some on social media to recall that LuPone, who is white, has been lauded on occasions when she has chastised misbehaving theatergoers. Patti LuPone Says She Resigned From Stage Actors’ Union 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

But her near-victory was not just the result of excitement over the chance to elect the nation’s first African American female governor. Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia governor’s race. But her star is rising. 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

He has this perspective that both relates to African Americans like myself, but also has this internationalist view. Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Biden gets the overwhelming majority of standing ovations at a gathering of African American ministers organized by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in North Charleston, which draws all the candidates on the South Carolina ballot. Tom Steyer wants to ‘save the world.’ First he’ll have to save his campaign. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Corporate television nearly shut out African Americans from regular programming, so the riot had an especially antagonizing impact. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Twins Jazz was on D.C.’s U Street, which was once known as Black Broadway, the home of African American culture and business in the city. Jazz venues have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. They are hoping the worst is over. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

But in its music, religious themes and portrayal of a loving family, Vidor’s film offered images of ordinary African American existence that many critics embraced. The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Its subject, a 19-year-old African American female, said the work “lets me identify things I said and reflect on them.” The art of working with chronically ill kids, creating ‘emotional portraits’ to help them heal 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Mckinney-Wigley, a 23-year-old African American gas station employee 31 weeks pregnant with her first baby, never felt comfortable with the doctors she saw in early pregnancy. The black midwives changing care for women of color – photo essay 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

The movie takes its name from“The Negro Motorist Green Book,” the popular travel guide that helped African Americans travel during the Jim Crow era. Peter Farrelly made some pretty ‘dumb’ movies. So how did he end up directing a smart drama about racism? 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

African Americans in general, and black jazz musicians in particular, carry and have carried a complicated message to the rest of us, a genetic memory of our great promise and also our great failing. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

African Americans were forced to borrow at much higher rates than their white counterparts to achieve their slice of the American dream, the promise of home ownership. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

The museum currently has no African American curators. Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

In her view, Richardson Jackson said in an interview, the play is “about the struggle of African Americans in this country to actually face what it is that we’re against.” ‘Piano Lesson’ With Samuel L. Jackson Plans Fall Broadway Bow 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Ruth E Carter became the first African American woman to win for costume design, saying: “Wow, this has been a long time coming.” New heroes and old history lessons: six key moments from the Oscars 2019 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the 36-stop trail crisscrosses the island, covering African American history from the 18th century to the present. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

My whole introduction to African American history was through a Bill Cosby documentary from 1968 called Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z

In late January the mood gets more serious with "Fly," about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American Army Air Corps unit to fly during World War II. Pasadena Playhouse 2015-16 season has 'Real Women,' cultural diversity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The African American Intellectual History Society has posted the list of materials for educators to use in classes when discussing last week's attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. What to read to understand Charleston attack: A crowdsourced syllabus 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

“The parabola is the perfect concentrator of all energy to a single focal point,” said Eversley, now 81, who remembers being the only African American in the school of engineering at Carnegie Mellon. The Artist Who Throws Newton a Curve 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The artist enjoyed significant recognition during his early career and in 1928 was one of the first African American artists to have a solo exhibition in New York. Artist Archibald J. Motley Jr.'s Jazz Age imagery on display at LACMA 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The work is co-authored by the African American Policy Forum, a think tank focused on economic and gender inequality, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. Black lives matter — including black women’s, activists remind nation 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

This building, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is monumental in scale. ‘Thinking of the past, considering the future.’ Inside the African American History and Culture Museum. 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

"The film takes on some significant issues, where you have an African American character being framed for murder," he said. 'Noir City' film fest explores darker side of life 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1930s, some, mostly African American neighborhoods – designated with red lines – were categorized as too risky for investment, and denied home loans and insurance. 'Heat islands': racist housing policies in US linked to deadly heatwave exposure 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s offensive, especially to me because I am African American. Whiteness at work in Arizona: Viral photo of racist teens shows the casual arrogance behind “bad decisions” 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Bridgette gave voice to the stories of people who struggled quietly and with dignity, and to chapters of African American history that deserve attention,” he said by email. Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Pleasantville is one such landscape: a middle-class development of the 1940s, when African Americans were not welcome in other neighborhoods. Attica Locke channels bitter political memories into 'Pleasantville' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

“Performance allows for a level of direct interaction that two-dimensional work does not,” says Naima Keith, deputy director at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. How Black Lives Matter turned performance into powerful activism in 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Called the National Museum of African American History and Culture, it is slated to open next fall. A Black History Museum Introduces Itself on the National Mall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The Mexican American youth worker wanted an end to the police targeting of Latino and African American working class communities over drugs. 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

At some point, African American officers join in. "Sound of the Police" filmmaker tells his son, "No good can come from a police encounter" 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z

Three African American teens with no clear view of the future make a pact to have babies at the same time. ‘Milk Like Sugar’ is the cream of this week’s crop of class-themed plays 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Published by Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, the book won both the Coretta Scott King illustrator and author awards, which are presented to African American writers and illustrators. Donna Barba Higuera Wins Newbery Medal for ‘The Last Cuentista’ 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Fisher is moved, and infuriated, that so many African Americans die young because they lack access to decent insurance and treatment. An E.R. Memoir Conveys Hectic Work, Empathy and Outrage 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Students who are African American, who have special needs, or, yes, who are Christian all may find themselves in a bully’s cross hairs. Civilities: A grandma asks about ‘our rights’ after a gay story is read in class 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Jones names all of his hats, and this collection is filled with tributes to African American music, to black beauty, to faith and to history. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

In the 19th-century Southern United States, churches were the center of the Black community and supported African Americans in a racist society. Juneteenth: An emancipation celebration 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Fluent in English and the Indonesian language, and the son of a white mother and African American father, Hasan fit the bill. Indonesian film portrays Obama's early years 2010-05-20T16:45:00Z

She was a fellow at Harvard University's WEB Du Bois Institute and wrote reports and provided assistance for gatherings such as the African American Labour Leaders' Economic Summit. Hazel Rowley obituary 2011-03-13T18:28:12Z

That early development of an expansive, historical understanding of African American identity surely fed the grace and humility of Boseman’s most famous roles. Chadwick Boseman didn’t just play icons. He was one. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

The latter, though short-lived, made Cole one of the first African Americans to host a network variety show. Early-TV oddities, innovations to screen as part of UCLA archive's anniversary 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ward’s award-winning satirical fantasy, a hit when it premiered in 1965, imagines what happens in a Southern town when all the African American residents mysteriously disappear. Review | Daring idea, but flawed e xecution, in ‘Day of Absence’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Pericak-Vance later used Byrd’s outreach model at the University of Miami, where she launched the Research in African American Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative, along with programs that target the Hispanic population. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The 2009 fire consumed more than 300 pieces of African American and African art, including works by giants such as Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, destroying one of the country’s top private collections. Six years after the fire, Peggy Cooper Cafritz has a new home and collection 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Matisse loved African American culture, and came to Harlem several times during the high years of the Harlem Renaissance in New York. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Look, as an African American woman, I get it. The genius of “Underground”: A gripping slavery drama that dares to be entertaining 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The arrest inspired 17,000 African Americans to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted for 13 months and hurt the city bus service’s revenue. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Their subject is the identity of people who are, as a gallery note says, “uniquely African American while also being considered neither.” Review | In the galleries: The American character, as molded by 11 female artists 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The museum’s team collected artifacts from around the nation in an “Antiques Roadshow”-style program in 15 cities called “Save Our African American Treasures.” How the Fight for a National African-American Museum Was Won 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

“The Piano Lesson” takes place in 1936, a time when older African Americans still carried personal memories of slavery. Olney’s ‘Piano Lesson’ could sparkle with more practice

African American adults are nearly six times more likely to receive a prison sentence than white adults. Alfre Woodard: 'We want all those with a stake in the death row business to see this film' 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

I cannot recall many, if any, TV miniseries that African American audiences could view as their "Thorn Birds." Netflix's lush "Self Made" deftly glams up an underexposed history 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

I interpret Alexander as saying that there is a marked indifference to the basic citizenship rights of African Americans. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

A project of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press, the dictionary will not just collect spellings and definitions. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

A street-corner murder in its first few minutes sets in motion the story — grief, revenge and counter-revenge — that will enfold a vast range of characters in an African American neighborhood. Review: In ‘The Chi,’ a Young Man Dies, and the Ripples Spread 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Slims’ nickname described him, tall and slim, an African American man with dark hair and eyes that welcomed us. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Beckman cites African Americans as a leading force for joyful levity. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z

It's composed solely of Latino writers, with the exception of one African American woman. 'East Los High': A teen soap opera that's a teaching tool 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

In 2013, in the wake of attacks on Jewish residents in Brooklyn, she wrote that many African American and Caribbean residents feared being “pushed out by their Jewish landlords.” Amid Opposition, Laurie Cumbo Named New York City’s Culture Czar 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

My county Leflore was the lynching capital of Mississippi, which per capita lynched more African Americans than any other state, and many of these lynchings took place in the Leflore County Massacre of 1889. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

Halle Berry was the first African American woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for her work in 2001's "Monster's Ball," yet you would not know that from watching this series. "They've Gotta Have Us" could have made history, if it weren't missing so much of it 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The artist’s Honfleur Gallery show, “Rise,” features pictures of African American exploitation, rendered by Martin with evident struggle and even anger. In the galleries: A towering exhibit offers a new definition of domestic life 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

“One African American woman artist would heckle me in public settings and call me at home with veiled threats,” she told me, “and would say I was the reason MoMA did not collect her work.” Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

Peele, nominated for best original screenplay, director and picture for his satirical horror film “Get Out,” became the first African American to win the original screenplay trophy. Oscars 2018: 15 things to know, from the awkward red carpet to the ‘Lady Bird’ snub 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

More than 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with African Americans particularly hard hit. Lonnae O’Neal: A daughter’s poignant reminder about a scourge with us still 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

She represented the regal and elegant Beverly Johnson, the first African American model to appear on the cover of Vogue. Eileen Ford and Ford Models helped define what American beauty looked like

It refers to the Civil Rights March of 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, a galvanizing event that led to the Voting Rights Act protecting the rights of African Americans to vote. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The story of Janie Crawford, an African American woman struggling with identity. Washington Post bestsellers: September 24, 2017 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced on Thursday that it had chosen Jonathon Heyward, a rising African American conductor, as its next music director. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The wall relief is in the collection of the California African American Museum, where it is currently on view. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

And I realized that I, like so many other African Americans — be they impoverished or wealthy, unknown or celebrity — fit within the rubric of the culturally traumatized. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

The sense of the room is contemplation, and respect for the legacy of African American painters and sculptors. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

As if an African American writer deciding to creatively depict Black people — my own people — represents a wading through brackish, non-potable waters. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

From cradle to grave, for everything from starter home loans to burial insurance, African Americans are confronted with a paywall that demands they fork over more than whites. Racism in America: It’s so pervasive that white people pay less for car insurance 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Why, the digital Fourth Estate demanded to know, wasn't the African American senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, wearing an American flag lapel-pin 24/7? William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The university rejects her application and does not admit an African American until 1950. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Approximately one in three households using Snap benefits are African American. Food bank braces for surge in demand after Trump strips 700,000 of benefits 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Nine African Americans attending a Bible study group were slain by a gunman and Roof has been charged with their murders, which investigators believe were motivated by racism. What to read to understand Charleston attack: A crowdsourced syllabus 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

And I thought about the U-turn many northern African Americans are making these days: a reverse migration toward the warmer weather of the South, family heritage and less expensive, simpler lives. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

And Netflix has ordered a television series based on the 2014 indie satire Dear White People, about life at an Ivy League school from the perspective of several African American students. Comedy in 2017: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and the French Seinfeld 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

She called for more African Americans to be nominated for Academy awards. Al Sharpton: 'This will be the last night of an all-white Oscars' 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Recorded in Hollywood World-premiere musical about an African American record-store owner who was an unsung hero in the development of rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s; an LA Times Critics’ Choice. L.A. theater openings, June 14-21: 'California: The Tempest' and more 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

He doesn't really get a shot, and one thing I took away from that was this whole idea of perception, can the way society views African American men change? Daveed Diggs: “[Thomas] Jefferson would not f**k with Trump, period” 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Light-skinned actors most often land the few leading film roles available to African Americans, with darker-skinned actors often cast as the bestie, the assistant or the nemesis. Dear White People's biggest success? Getting to grips with colorism 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

The series opens with Ida Wells, an African American journalist born in 1862. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But Long, who is African American and Hispanic, is struck by what she sees there. Is your spin class too young, too thin and too white? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Kisch’s collection reflects both how much black cinema has progressed but also how African Americans are still facing many of the same institutional challenges to have the full range of their voices heard. The slow rise of black cinema 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The painting first appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, and is now jointly owned by the African American Museum and the Speed Museum in Louisville, where it went on view in April. Review | Breonna Taylor’s image adorned T-shirts, signs and street murals. Now her portrait is in the Smithsonian. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

But his 2013 special African American, streaming on Netflix, offers a much more detailed look at his personality and sense of humor. Watch Trevor Noah's Comedy Special "African American" 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

“We look at the national museum as our champion on a national level,” said Leslie Guy, chief curator at the DuSable, in Chicago, the nation’s oldest African American museum. Before Smithsonian’s opens, smaller African American museums grapple with a behemoth in D.C. 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The actor chose the show’s title because the surname Johnson is one of the most common within the African American community. TV show ‘Johnson’ takes glimpse into Black male perspective 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Butler’s field of study is religion, with particular focus on women and African American religious history. Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

He and academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an African American woman, are the only people of color represented in the group. Academy's new board of governors reflects slowly changing demographics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

One of his attorneys was a young African American woman, surely a courtroom rarity in those days. Review: ‘Back Channel,’ by Stephen L. Carter

Mr. Schnyder, in a phone interview, said that, because it had a white, male, European composer, the piece needed a librettist who could bring an African American and a female sensibility. Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Psychologists discuss the racial stereotyping and profiling of African Americans. What to watch this weekend: ‘Better Call Saul’ returns on AMC 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Stepping is a percussive dance form created by African American college students who are members of fraternities and sororities. The founder of Step Afrika! on the crucial steps to bringing his dream to life 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

One doesn’t hear any of that self-consciousness among the curators and leaders of the new African American history museum. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

“And so you hear a lot of different voices, filtering through the various paintings in the series: African Americans, Native Americans and women, especially.” Exhibit of iconic Jacob Lawrence series, reunited for first time since 1958, opens at Seattle Art Museum 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Soul Food “showed the African American family expressing fellowship through food”. Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The Smithsonian’s big event last year was the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall. Museums Chart a Response to Political Upheaval 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

This is the artist's second career overview, but it is nearly twice as large as the groundbreaking display organized in 1997 by curator Lizette Lefalle-Collins for the California African American Museum in Exposition Park. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The soldiers were part of the 25th Infantry Regiment, one of the African American units whose members were also known as Buffalo Soldiers. Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Several participants address African American history and identity. Review | In the galleries: Depicting nature’s vital, ephemeral connections 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Pakistanis, in my mind, didn't shape him in any way but made this transitionary period of his life comfortable for him, as he was still learning what it was to be African American. Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z

“Did I really just walk into an African American studies class of 150-plus students and AirDrop our rush flyers? Yup,” tweeted one Arizona State University student. How AirDrop requests have become Gen Z’s version of passing notes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

And having benefited from the momentum online, organizations like African Americans for Humanism and Center for Inquiry-Harlem have well-attended meet-up groups, and others like Black Atheists of America and Black Nonbelievers have been founded. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

It’s quite another to attempt to dehumanize a woman in front of the world simply for daring to be successful and African American. Nerds of the world, unite: The villains have weaponized “canon” — and it’s up to us to stop it 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The series was a hit, even though at the time Carroll herself critiqued the series’ writers failing to reflect an honest version of the grim economic and social realities African Americans were facing. The symbolic power of Gina Torres's new drama "Pearson," right now 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

The two, joined by Burton-Hill and the educator Ramona Burton, another Newburgh resident, make up what is now the African American Burial Ground Committee. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

And," he says, thinking it over, "being African American, there were no big movie stars to hang out with anyway, not when I was starting out, they were just the third guy from the back! Denzel Washington: 'I don't want movie-star friends' 2013-01-24T13:05:52Z

Then, in 1976, came her Museum of African American Art, which has mounted exhibitions and run educational programs ever since. Samella Lewis, Artist and Activist for Art World Diversity, Dies at 99 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

In the wake of World War II, the dissident actor and singer Paul Robeson saw deep parallels between the plight of Jews and African Americans and loved to perform Dvorak’s setting of the psalm. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Representatives of various marginalized communities – women, African Americans, and jazz lovers – emerged to take the film down a peg. The La La Land backlash: why have critics turned on the Oscar favorite? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Those were the leagues African Americans formed when Whites did not allow Blacks to play in the MLB National and American Leagues. Perspective | As the Cleveland Indians search for a new name, history offers several oddballs 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Regardless of the new advantages of instant mass communication, however, BLM has also begun to reorder the slow time of the African American literary canon like the Civil Rights Movement before it. Reading James Baldwin in the Black Lives Matter era 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

While “Negro” was once a common way to refer to Black people and still appears in organization names, the terms “Black” and “African American” are more widely used today. Fox News edit of Biden comment removes racial context 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi — a significant event in the civil rights movement — on Oct. National Portrait Gallery sought public’s help in selecting work for its Recognize wall

Perhaps there was an African American steel driver, unjustly imprisoned, who raced against a steam-powered hammer and won. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Stuff like that I like to share with people about the history of African Americans and guns. President of a National African American Gun Association chapter shoots from the hip 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

African Americans have achieved much in every area of American society, from law and medicine to business and labor, from education and civil service to entertainment, sports, and, always, religion and human rights. Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

"It's a progressive, intellectual drama that looks at identity, specifically contemporary African American identity," he continued. Actors to wear blackface for 'hackle-raising' new play 2013-01-04T16:32:10Z

On a Sunday stroll up 16th Street in Washington, D.C., years ago, Lonnie Bunch got a hug and a gentle talking-to from an African American woman. A Smithsonian Museum Sharpens Focus on the History of Slavery 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Antiques Roadshow The series wraps a three-episode stop in Austin, Texas, in the first of two new episodes; in the second, items relating to the African American experience are featured. Monday's TV Highlights: 'Sleepy Hollow' and more 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Cliff and the show shared Cosby’s interests in African American high culture, especially jazz. So What Do We Do About 'The Cosby Show'? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The allegations were made about a groundbreaking radio and TV host, the first African American to get his own talk show on PBS. No apology: Tavis Smiley makes comeback bid after PBS firing 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Using permanent dyes regularly was associated with a 60 percent increased risk of breast cancer among African American women, compared with an 8 percent increased risk for white women. You can save money by coloring your hair at home. But should you? 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

He talks of the Sistine Chapel, Monet’s water lilies and Countee Cullen, whose poem “Yet Do I Marvel” provided the title of the new piece for the national African American museum. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

During the civil rights movement, many African Americans wanted Ellington to be more forthcoming, said Mr. Owens, but “he was very dedicated to his music as a force as opposed to actual protest.” James Little, Unapologetic Abstractionist Painter, Catches the Limelight 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

More than 80 years after she died, legendary African American journalist Ida B. Wells is getting a late birthday present of sorts. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Hoop Dreams", 13+ This outstanding 1994 documentary is a searing portrait of inner-city life in America and the extraordinary, unfair expectations placed on the shoulders of many young African American athletes. Black history movies that tackle racism 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The above list is only a small sample of the myriad work African American authors have done in the past, and are doing today, especially in the world of crime fiction. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Some of the younger African American girls, they don’t see a lot of themselves in the gun industry. President of a National African American Gun Association chapter shoots from the hip 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing specific about him being African American other than what the audience lays on it. This new Scrooge actor has had a visitation of his own 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The nationally televised trial projected her full-figured image, her words, her urban African American dialect into the national consciousness. For Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel, a ‘village’ of mentors trying to keep her on track

She crafts small-scale, detailed pieces that address subtle emotions and the overlooked but meaningful events of daily life, especially those deeply seated in the African American experience. Review | Camille A. Brown’s “ink”: Beautiful etchings in space 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Were there enough opportunities for African Americans in film? On the Oscars red carpet: Gawking, quick conversations and tequila 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

As the Great Migration took hold, African Americans were becoming more cosmopolitan, and their coiffures reflected that transformation. In Films and on TV, a New Openness to Natural Black Hairstyles 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Baldwin passage is from a memoir that recounts being an African American in a small Swiss village; the Stein excerpt is a racist stereotype from one of her works of fiction. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The 1955 lynching of Till, and the acquittal of his killers, shocked people of conscience, terrified African Americans and fueled the emotions that led to bus boycotts, lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The struggle hasn’t changed. In fact it is more exacerbated than ever.  But to have African American regard towards Simone Weil is really powerful.” Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

But she also showcased emerging hip-hop artists and other black voices, as well as taking on lesser-known topics such as climate gentrification, or African Americans’ unequal access to the cannabis boom. No more Jimmys on late night: Why we need more women comedians hosting now 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, we felt progress within the city was always on the backs of the Latino and African American communities. Rosie Castro: A proud mother sounds off on why her son Julián should be president 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Outside a Brooklyn housing project, an important Harlem Renaissance stone frieze from 1938 honoring African Americans is deteriorating. As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

He concluded, “We have to do something about the wealth gap, or else we’re going to face a situation where white families are paying for entitlements of millions of African American families.” Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

Simultaneously, contrapuntally, the film follows the campaign of Calvin Burns, the country's first African American police chief, to become its first African American sheriff. Two documentaries: '1971' on PBS, 'Southern Rites' from HBO 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

"Watts Riot," the greatest of them, is a key work on view in the galleries of the California African American Museum in Exposition Park, where it is a collection touchstone. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Nearby off-property attractions include the Greene County African American Museum in downtown Madison – a small town with Antebellum and Victorian homes plus tennis at Reynolds Lake Oconee. Last-minute road trips to take in the South over Labor Day weekend 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

But I think now they’ll understand – or a lot of people will understand – that the magnitude of police mistreatment of African Americans is real and it’s been going on for a long time.” New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

A musical roller-coaster ride through the African American experience is a journey well worth taking at MetroStage, thanks to four gifted vocalists, five skilled jazz musicians and a good idea. In MetroStage’s ‘Shake Loose,’ nothing’s left unsung 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In 2007, she was named chief, the first woman and the second African American to run the department. Val Demings has an American dream. The impeachment trial is testing it. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Times opinion columnist Brent Staples, who wrote powerfully about African American history and connected it to contemporary race relations, was awarded the prize in editorial writing. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

For African Americans, the promises and failure of Reconstruction, and the de facto apartheid of Jim Crow made the promise of emancipation often seem desperately shallow. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The Northwest African American Museum will host a screening of the 2011 documentary “Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13. Pre-Valentine’s Day fare, ‘Noir City’ festival and more 2014-02-06T22:47:25Z

In an interview, he spoke of the "double consciousness" of expectation and identity that African Americans face, notably young black men who are often portrayed as criminals. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

But its focus is on how African Americans survived those challenges, not on the people who perpetrated them. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Fred Astaire appears in blackface during a solo routine called “Bojangles of Harlem,” meant to evoke African American dancer Bill Robinson. 200 years of authenticity (or lack thereof) in casting 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Enslaved African Americans played a significant role in the success and spread of barbecue throughout the U.S. A brief history of the American cookout 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

Love Jones — The Musical Stage adaptation of the 1997 romantic comedy about African American singles in Chicago; contains mature themes and language. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 30-Nov. 6: 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' and more 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Building the university relies on the labor of enslaved African Americans, as well as free blacks. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The conversation would be different if an African American woman helming a Best Picture nominee wasn’t already such a rare occurrence. The dubious upside of Selma’s Oscar snub: Hollywood can’t continue to ignore its own race issues 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Etheridge and his men are aware of the wider impact they are making, what their success means to all African Americans. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

The media’s focus on white women was subtly racist and sexist, because African American men, who comprise a disproportionate share of missing people each year, were rarely spotlighted, she said. Bad girls and gone girls: Why the media tired of ‘missing white women’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

City of Hope, the National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibition at the National Museum of American History, will be on display through December 2018. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

He gets particularly animated about any mischaracterisation of his work as exclusively for African American audiences. Empire’s Lee Daniels: ‘I always see myself as one step away from a flop’ 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Construction is set to begin this year on the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the first addition to the National Mall since 2004. New exhibit explores Jefferson's slave ownership 2012-01-25T16:09:09Z

But state party Chairman Trav Robertson said the arrangement was made in part because two of MSNBC’s African American hosts will be on hand to interview candidates. MSNBC deal with South Carolina Dems rankles media 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

She brings up how Emmett Till's casket is now on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The pushback against how Black suffering and victims of violence are depicted in art 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

One Night in Miami is the first movie directed by an African American woman shown at the Venice film festival. 'The humanity of black characters is often forgotten': behind Oscar-tipped One Night in Miami 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

African American was often used, but is not always accurate — some black people don’t trace their lineage to Africa. Newsroom quandry: Should ‘black’ be capitalized? 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

"The right thing is not being done to African American operators in America with our company," Darrell Byrd was quoted as saying. Black McDonald's franchise owners launch 90-day protest at company headquarters, alleging discrimination 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Trump joined Savage in January 2016 to discuss his appeal to African American and Hispanic voters, as well as his supposed popularity with women. Bigoted radio host Michael Savage has lost faith in Trump 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

His cupcake is stuffed with sweet potato pie filling because “that’s a traditional African American pie,” his mother said. This 13-year-old opened a bakery. For every cupcake he sells, he gives one to the homeless. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

He wrote other nonfiction accounts of life among the upper echelons of Jewish, Irish, African American and old-line Anglo-Saxon society. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

As its bronzelike scrim is being installed on the exterior, the crown-shaped building is taking shape as a celebration of African American resilience and creativity, he said. A sneak peek at the newest Smithsonian offering 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

“We are living in general, as African Americans, at a point in time when the historic narratives are in question and in change,” she said. The Profound Significance of ‘High on the Hog’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

He's moved up his plans to call for reparations for African Americans. On their third day at work, congressional freshmen went through disorientation 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

They are the only two African American women to win drama Pulitzers. Nottage and Parks talk shop, politics as their new dramas come to D.C. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

I tell them that I was privileged to be born into a middle-class African American family with educated parents who provided me with strong positive messages. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation Topics: This Land, , slavery, African Americans, YMCA, , This piece originally appeared on This Land. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

It wasn’t the first Black movie; independent filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux, among other African Americans, were producing Black movies for Black audiences. The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The collection today is one of the most widely admired private collections of African American art, art historians say, and its contents should not be overshadowed by Cosby's personal scandals. D.C. museum caught between the Bill Cosby scandal and hosting his family's art trove 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The city of Memphis, she wrote, does not protect an African American “who dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.” ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

They attended the groundbreaking of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in 2012, and will return this month to dedicate the new institution. Is it better for the Obamas to support or be visible on the D.C. arts scene? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

So this was a level of wealth that created not only a prosperous African American middle class, but also the services to cater to them: hotels, restaurants, furriers, jewelry stores, professional offices. ‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

“It used to be solidly African American,” she says. Is there a D.C. dialect? It’s a topic locals are pretty ‘cised’ to discuss

African American tour guides noted historical inaccuracies about black people on the battlefield. Atlanta’s Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

So you’ve got an African American who’s basically playing a racist. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

In their current slate of 16 features, half the directors are women and a third are African American. A guide to making Hollywood less white, by the filmmakers who have done it 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The report, “Diversity in Giving,” found that African Americans often do not contribute to campaigns because they haven’t been asked for support. African American museum’s fundraising touches deep history among donors 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

“A slur directed towards African Americans means,” he writes, “to a first, rough approximation, something like black and despicable because of it.” If the “C-Word” fits, let’s embrace it: Women don’t need to be sheltered from this one powerful insult 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

She teaches poetry, literature and African American studies, and for four years chaired Yale’s African American Studies department, a job she held at Ficre’s death. Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

In a news conference Wednesday, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said that despite being 67 percent of the Ferguson population, African Americans accounted for 85 percent of traffic stops. Lonnae O’Neal: Dear Officer Friendly, where did you go? 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In both cases, the characters were the first African American and female president in the fictional US that 24 inhabited. Good news for Clinton: new season of Homeland features a female president 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

They will be one for the record books if three African American women -- Viola Davis, Taraji P. Henson and Kerry Washington -- all earn nods for lead actress in a drama series. Emmys 2015: Will TV history be made? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

A 2015 article in "Black Girls Ride" magazine described Harris as "the first African American female road racer." 'Deadpool 2' stuntwoman who died is motorcycle racer S.J. Harris 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The march will begin at the National Museum of African American History and Culture at 9:30 a.m. and will end at Black Lives Matter Plaza. A dad posted joyful photos of black fathers to shatter stereotypes. Then it became a movement. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

The idea was born when Oxford asked Gates to join forces to better represent African American English in its existing dictionaries. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

He also struggled to earn respect for himself and for the blues, a genre that many African Americans deemed passe by the 1960s. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The documentary "Minor Differences," which profiles five former juvenile offenders, will screen Thursday at the Northwest African American Museum, with director Heather Dew Oaksen, producer Caroline Cumming and the cast present. Ginny Ruffner doc, 'Superbad' and Gay and Lesbian Film fest 2012-10-04T20:03:06Z

My hometown has been under a microscope since the killing of Freddie Gray, an unarmed African American man who was stopped for no reason in 2015, in police custody. America has a policing problem and Trump is making it worse 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

And we’re pretty sure that the National Museum of African American History and Culture was supposed to be further along by now. Blight of fancy: D.C. starts to feel like ‘Mad Max’ amid constant construction 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Designers are shining a light on the slighted chapters of African American history. Robin Givhan: One Sunday night at Fashion Week redefined the stories that clothes can tell - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Viola Davis won best supporting actress for Fences – it was the first time African Americans simultaneously won in both categories. Moonlight wins best picture Oscar – after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway give award to La La Land 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

After dinner, a palate-cleanser arrived — what Bailey calls a “Thrill,” based on frozen Kool-Aid popsicles she remembers from her childhood as a summertime treat served by Southern African American women. How a Greyhound station in Savannah became a hit new restaurant 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“The bottom line of the African American people, when you read this dictionary,” Gates said, “is that you’ll say these are people who love language.” Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The novel was illustrated by the African American artist E. Simms Campbell. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

At the same time, two youngish looking African Americans pass the women but appear not to even notice them. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Which explains how Joseph Trammell’s freedom tin, after traveling across more than a century, from one descendant’s hand to another, is artifact 2014.25 at the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The period during and after World War I was characterized by appalling mass violence against African Americans. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Jason Young, an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan who specializes in African American religion and culture, finds this account unreliable. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Momentum swelled across a nation horrified by a neo-Confederate’s killing of nine African Americans in a historic South Carolina church. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

A favorite target is corporate America’s embrace, and exploitation, of African Americans, through the subtle manipulation of ideas of aspiration, affirmation and inclusion. Critic’s Notebook: On Day Two, a new establishment museum begins its work 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Ridley acknowledged that some of the stories and emotions of the show reflect some of the recent tensions across the country sparked by the deaths of African American men at the hands of police officers. TCA 2015: 'American Crime': Powerful and raw emotions behind a murder 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The Cosbys rank among the wealthiest black families in the country and began amassing a collection before many private collectors became interested in African American art. D.C. museum caught between the Bill Cosby scandal and hosting his family's art trove 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Harper was the most prominent African American poet of the 19th century, and also published short fiction, novels, essays and speeches. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

African American complaints about bad policing are as old as policing itself. I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

He also served as Bill Cosby’s agent for decades, helping have him cast on “I Spy,” which made Cosby the first African American star of a dramatic television series. Norman R. Brokaw, Hollywood agent for Elvis and Marilyn, dies at 89 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Walter Dean Myers, a celebrated author known for writing books about young African Americans, such as "Monster," "Fallen Angels" and "Darius & Twig," has died. Walter Dean Myers, celebrated young adult author, dies at 76 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

“AFTERMASH: Local Artists on African American Experience” is on view until April 21 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Seattle-area art events celebrating Black History Month 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

“What I’m so pleased about is not only the representation of women abolitionists, but also the representation of African American photographers who are often undervalued and overlooked,” he added. Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

The Underground Railroad was a loose network of African Americans and whites who helped fugitive slaves escape to a free state or to Canada. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

He co-wrote a column that praised the intelligence of white supremacists, and he got banned from Twitter after taunting the African American actress Leslie Jones, who he said looks like “a black dude.” Bannon molded Breitbart into a far-right sledgehammer. How it will be wielded in the Trump era? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

She was the first African American woman hired as a reporter by the newspaper. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Johnson’s narrator and protagonist is Warren Duffy, the offspring of an Irish American father and an African American mother. Book Review: A gently funny exploration of biracial identity 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“The Rib King” will resonate with readers who are interested in African American history and literature, and with those who want to interrogate the emblematic American myths of progress and individual uplift. Review | Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ is a fascinating look at ambition, race and revenge 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

It advanced the representation of black families and culture on TV and–however ugly the irony now–showed a generation of kids an African American dad as a wise, successful father figure. The Cosby Show, The Dukes of Hazzard and the Ethics of Reruns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Though the National Museum of African American History and Culture is under construction on the National Mall here, with the railway car already in hand, it is not scheduled to open until 2016. The Smithsonian Engages in Some Friendly Competition 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

But there’s one other thing, Bernard notes: Kacey is African American. Three years and 60 accusers later, Bill Cosby’s trial begins. But only one woman will decide his fate. 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

“Rasa” works, in part, because King, who is African American, helms one of the most ethnically diverse ballet companies in the country. LINES Ballet’s ‘Rasa’ is beautiful but brutal

They ways that the original Green Book contributed to the entrepreneurial class in the African American community was something that we really tried to feature in our documentary "The Green Book: Guide to Freedom." "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Today, many of the mostly African American regulars are retired, and middle age is a milepost fading in the rearview mirror. This checkers club is competing against the Internet and gentrification. Can it stay alive? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

He had spent fruitless years trying to convince black backers — including millionaire numbers runners — that African Americans would spend money on cowboy pictures featuring people of their own color. Herb Jeffries, jazz balladeer and star of all-black cowboy movies, dies

Gates explained that the Oxford Dictionary of African American English will not only give the definition of a word, but also describe where it came from and how it emerged. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the exhibition “Harlem on My Mind,” criticized in two recent books for treating African Americans as producers of a social culture but not an artistic one. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

His story addresses African American men, their “low expectations of life” and gun violence. What is it like to shoot someone? "Behind the Bullet" explores "moral injury" of gun violence 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Wilkerson quite simply revolutionizes African-American history, as she chronicles the migration of six million African Americans who left the South between World War I and the 1970s. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

He cheered for this year’s champion, Zaila Avant-garde — the first African American winner in the bee’s history — and said the recent dominance of South Asian spellers should also be celebrated. LeVar Burton joins Scripps National Spelling Bee as host 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

I read in a book called "The People's History in Sports" about a guy named Moses Fleetwood Walker who was actually the first African American in major league baseball — before Jackie Robinson. A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Let me spoil it for you: Ashe prevailed, outplaying and outthinking Connors to become the first African American man to win Wimbledon. ‘Citizen Ashe’ Review: Advantage, Arthur Ashe 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Yet the harshest facts and joys — of African Americans’ struggles, as well as all human struggles  — are ever-present beneath and between her lines. Rita Dove's collected poems should put her back in the center of the American conversation 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi of the 1920s was a “kleptocracy,” he writes, where African Americans were routinely stripped of their land and possessions through trickery or force. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle

Congressional approval would be an important step for the museum, but the road ahead remains long if the process unfolds as it did in the case of the Museum of African American History and Culture. House Votes to Create a National Museum of the American Latino 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

A chorus at the groundbreaking for the Museum of African American History and Culture on Wednesday in Washington. Groundbreaking for the Museum of African American History 2012-02-23T00:34:36Z

When Trump was being sued in the 70s for not renting homes to African Americans he asked Cohn what he should do. Nathan Lane: ‘I have played a lot of morally questionable people 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Together with three other librarians, including Sophia Kenworth, an African American woman whose brother was injured in the mines, they find a room of their own: a library that provides inspiration and escape. Review | In Jojo Moyes’s ‘The Giver of Stars,’ the heroes are librarians on horseback 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

And so I got closer, and I saw the words underneath that said, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Planned Parenthood president: Saying abortion is a small part of what group does is stigmatizing 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s the only play in Wilson’s great 10-play “cycle” about the 20th century African American experience that is not set in the Pittsburgh neighborhood where he grew up. Taper's 2016 season features Pulitzer winner and 3-hour Civil War epic by Suzan-Lori Parks 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

But McDonald made clear that she was singing for all the great African American singers who broke through barriers and made her career possible. Audra McDonald soars in her stirring tour through the American musical 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

After all, this is a country where the one-drop rule was once the standard — even a smidgen of black heritage marked one as African American and subject to the nation’s racial caste system. Passing in reverse: What does an NAACP leader’s case say about race? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

So, some African American organizations are taking up the charge of raising awareness. Letters from magazine readers 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

That is to say, its African American members. Perspective | In wake of George Floyd’s death, black theater leaders want more than sympathetic words 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Possession of the mutant gene is also not-so-subtly compared to the African American experience in times of slavery. Losing the X Factor: is it time for the X-Men universe to stop expanding? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

She questions the assumption that it wouldn’t appeal to non-black readers simply because it covers a product of African American culture. Carla Hall is ‘the most visible black person in food.’ Now she wants to take soul food mainstream. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

In light of the ongoing discussion about diversity in late-night television, it's notable that he adds another African American host to the mix. Neil deGrasse Tyson's theory: 'StarTalk' can make science hip 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

In a nearby town, African American children swam on Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

“I think that what people have to pay close attention to is how these changing stories bring distrust in law enforcement, particularly in the African American community as well as communities of color,” Moss says. The prospect of more police at schools is no comfort for Black parents 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

That moment belonged to Harris when she stared Biden down and said, “As the only African American on stage, I would like to speak.” I don't care "how black" Kamala Harris is and neither should you 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

“I hadn’t seen the start of the race, and I had no idea she was African American until the end,” said Goines, or retired U.S. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Gil Robertson, the co-founder and president of the African American Film Critics Association, said Tyson was a pillar for the African American community. Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Sweet Honey became a fixture in Washington, attracting an almost cultlike following to its African American a cappella tradition. A serendipitous life: Ysaye Barnwell and the healing power of music 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

We spoke to Angela Dillard, a professor of African American Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor whose specialties include black conservatism. Ben Carson’s oddball appeal: “The right has not traditionally wanted black conservatives who are all over the map” 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Sampling is a hallmark of electronic dance music, and many songs on his blockbuster album “Play” were constructed around bits lifted from the work of African American musicians. ‘Moby Doc’ Review: He Understands How He’s an Unlikely Pop Star 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The criminal justice system disproportionately jails African Americans and Latino people. ‘Long overdue’: lawmakers declare racism a public health emergency 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Troy, a married middle-aged sanitation worker scraping by in 1950s Pittsburgh, is one of the most memorable characters in Wilson’s 10-play cycle chronicling 20th century African American life. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

He fought prejudice and promoted visibility for African Americans at every turn. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

And she's African American, which Song shamefully doesn't comprehend when she first speaks with her on the phone. 'Beware' enters modern-day Hollywood noir shining darkly 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The media loved painting young African Americans as trouble makers. Losing John Singleton, the mentor I never met 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

We mostly don't exactly see that, although there is certainly some crossover because of the tendency of African American voters to vote Democratic. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Not a lot of films show the vulnerability of African American men in front of each other. What is it like to shoot someone? "Behind the Bullet" explores "moral injury" of gun violence 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

“I was the second African American in the group,” said Chuck Hill, 76, who graduated in 1967. A fraternity bond of 50-plus years: ‘I never envisioned that this would go beyond graduation’ 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

His racial theories elicited outrage and critical responses from a variety of African American intellectuals and leaders, including Benjamin Banneker and David Walker. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rule, who is Black and married to an Austrian, said she wants to expose her son to his African American heritage in a European city where she feels disconnected from her culture. Day 27: What Are Kids Saying About Kwanzaa? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

This is a historic part of New York, the uptown Manhattan district that has been central to the African American story. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z

Keats was inspired to write “The Snowy Day” by a series of photographs in a 1940 issue of Life magazine depicting a young African American boy. U.S. Postal Service unveils series of stamps honoring children's book 'The Snowy Day' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Henry Louis Gates Jr, an expert in African American studies at Harvard University who consulted on "12 Years a Slave," does see black filmmakers playing a crucial role in this wave. Hollywood reflects on race in year of black, civil rights films 2013-08-26T13:14:40Z

In changing his name to Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxer made himself a symbol of self-creation and heroism to people across the globe, above all, his fellow African Americans. When Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's friendship changed history: The new book 'Blood Brothers' explains 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

In what’s been called facetiously “the Ellis Island for African Americans,” thousands of slaves waiting to be auctioned off as domestics and laborers throughout the South died in those warehouses. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

“It is critical that we collect so this moment does not get lost,” said Aaron Bryant, a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Museums Collect Protest Signs to Preserve History in Real Time 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

They have described the Democratic Party as a “plantation” that represses African American voters who hold different opinions. Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Growing up in Chicago, a daughter of middle-class Jamaican immigrants, she was used to toggling daily between worlds — West Indian, African American, white. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Her depictions of African American subjects are meticulously finished, with the figures set against brilliantly colored but mostly blank backdrops. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Inside a nearby brick building, a small museum’s exhibits celebrate Douglass and Isaac Myers, a free African American who was influential in the 19th-century labor movement. For a better sense of Baltimore, get out of the Inner Harbor and head to Fells Point 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The coronavirus was spreading, it posed a particular threat to African American families like theirs, and there was no way to know when it would be safe to reunite with their grandparents. Fear, joy, grief, gratitude: The whiplash of parenting during existential chaos 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

I know what you mean, but there is no one African American experience, just as there is no one white American experience. With ‘The Chi,’ Lena Waithe Heads Home in Search of the Real Chicago 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

She mentioned that her son once had an African American friend. ‘He didn’t learn this at home’: What do you do if your child sides with neo-Nazis? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Each artist explored the experience of leaving for another part of the country through the 1970s, an overall shift of more than six million African Americans. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

The play was written after the indisputable masterpieces “Fences” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” but it occupies the first slot in Wilson’s decade-by-decade exploration of 20th century African American life. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton and an Alabamian, argues that to understand the full history of America, one must study the South. 16 New Books Coming in January 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

He photographed white hecklers along the way and local African Americans watching the marchers and the media. 'Road to Freedom' photos span 50 years of racial division 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

He urged Latinos to emulate African American activists. Hollywood basks in diversity praise but Latinos ask: are we invisible? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

Memphis: The city attracted African American workers and musicians from the South who played on local radio stations and in barrooms along Beale Street. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

"How It Went Down" opens seconds after a white bystander, Jack Franklin, guns down African American teen Tariq Johnson after a confrontation in front of the Underhill neighborhood convenience store. A black teen is shot in Kekla Magoon's 'How It Went Down' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Debbie Bird, the chair of the board for the Northwest African American Museum, says this type of advocacy is a tenet of Rice’s work. Constance Rice, SAM’s new board chair, believed to be first Black woman chair of a major U.S. art museum 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

For another, it doles out juicy parts to six fine African American actors who ordinarily don’t get this magnitude of opportunity in a classic ’50s drama. Review | Government shutdown aside, Ford’s Theatre stays open and percolates with a multiethnic ‘Twelve Angry Men’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The museum, which has already produced traveling exhibitions, held collecting events in 15 cities and published books about the African American experience, hopes to move quickly into its second phase: pleasing the public. An extra patina of pride on African American Museum’s second day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Girard, born in Dallas, earned his B.A. in art history from Howard University and started as a tour guide at the Broad and the California African American Museum. A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Examples include “Marathon ’33,” a sprawling drama by June Havoc, the younger sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, about a danceathon, and “Voodoo Macbeth,” Orson Welles’s controversial 1936 Shakespeare staging for African American actors. Curtain falling on American Century Theater, with 2014-2015 its final season

Members of a gay and gender nonconforming African American dance team strut their stuff in the new unscripted series "The Prancing Elites Project." TV This Week for April 19- 25: 'Boyhood' on Showtime 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

He started out as a ceramicist, drawing on vernacular African American pottery and by Japanese traditions he learned while studying the craft in Tokoname, Japan, in the mid-1990s. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Really,” he said, “the crux of it was that she was an African American woman singing these sensual love songs.” Joyce Bryant, Sensual Singer Who Changed Course, Dies at 95 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

“When we won in Iowa, a state that’s like 98 percent white, our numbers with African American voters instantly reversed,” he said. Seeing fatal flaws in every Democratic candidate for president? You’ve got Pundititis. 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

"Don played an enormous part in my career by giving me exposure when there was none for African American recording artists on television," Dionne Warwick said in a statement. "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius commits suicide 2012-02-02T01:53:59Z

I've experimented within the kid field, writing some comedy, writing an adventure book with 'Treasure Hunters,' and I have a middle school book about an African American kid in an inner city. Best-selling author Patterson reflects on success 2013-10-24T09:03:04Z

The message is summed up simply for me as African Americans and our nation continue this journey: Keep the faith. Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

In 1975, Lane organized “A Bicentennial of Fashion,” celebrating the creativity of African Americans. We don’t know what Rosa Parks wore the night she was arrested. But she was carrying this dress. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Noelle Trent, the president and chief executive of the Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket, said that having robust Black history woven through the Semiquincentennial is important. Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Unlike Khrushchev, however, he was an artist — and African American. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Clinton’s bill shored up a racist system that contributed to African American genocide through mass incarnation, and he and his wife defended it all the way up until it became politically unpopular to do so. I don't care "how black" Kamala Harris is and neither should you 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The museum wants to be a place where descendants of Southern slave owners can engage with black history alongside the descendants of African American sharecroppers. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Pattie Cooper-Jones, the first African American woman to chair the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors, shares their pride in the museum. New U.S. Civil Rights Trail leads to a little-known Virginia museum 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The David Adjaye-designed National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., will open its doors to the public next weekend. Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

The letter follows a national reckoning in the United States about systemic racism, sparked by the death of African American George Floyd under the knee of a white police officer last month. U.S. theatre world accused of exploiting, excluding people of color 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The Schomburg collection is much larger than African American Museum’s, consisting of more than 11 million manuscripts, photographs, rare books and film. Smithsonian taps N.Y. cultural director to lead African American museum 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

He will also be the curator and host of “In Their Footsteps: Great African American Singers and Their Legacy.” Philharmonic Announces 2015-16 Concerts and Residencies 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter that he’s an “old patriotic, tax-paying, African American ex-cop, war veteran senior citizen,” as he says twice in the play. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

“I guess it would be equal parts misogyny and racism,” says Regina Bradley, who teaches African American Studies at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and researches issues related to popular culture, race and society. Lonnae O’Neal: A black girl, a white guy and an inexplicable tweet 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The museum, which offers free admission to the public, focuses on African American history and culture, with an emphasis on California and the Western U.S.  California African American Museum names George Davis as new executive director 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The African American Museum struggled to land its site on the Mall’s northwest corner near the Washington Monument in 2006, taking one of the few open spaces. Latino Museum backers are pushing for a prime spot on the National Mall. But a turf war is looming. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of “Red Island House” is — like Lee herself — an African American woman married to an Italian and living in Italy. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Three of the nine best-picture nominees told stories of African American experiences in the United States, as did three of the five films nominated for best documentary. ‘There’s been a mistake. ‘Moonlight,’ you guys won.’: An Oscars shocker, in more ways than one 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

African American DJs also found an odd kinship with the Germans. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z

Taraji P. Henson, one of the stars of “Hidden Figures,” about the African American women who were instrumental in the success of the country’s space program, was dressed by Alberta Ferretti. Perspective | The most eye-catching red carpet look at the Oscars wasn’t a dress. It was a blue ACLU ribbon. 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

All too often, Young reminds us, pseudo-reporting trades on sadly familiar anxieties and preconceptions about African Americans. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

A colorful legacy quilt that recognizes 406 African American contributions in food will greet guests as they enter the exhibit. The Ebony Test Kitchen, Where Black Cuisine Was Celebrated, Is Reborn 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

The tendency to disparage soul food as “poor people’s food” is one that Hall and many African American food writers and chefs continue to challenge. Carla Hall is ‘the most visible black person in food.’ Now she wants to take soul food mainstream. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

What grips me most about the photograph is that it embodies for me some fundamental truths about social justice in our country and its deep ties to the African American struggle for equality. Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The countless online videos of police brutality and African Americans dying at the hands of police officers have led to deep conversations about America's policing problem and TV portrayals. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

“He is ambitious and tolerates a lot of abuse in order to get ahead. I see this as emblematic of African Americans in 1962, the time the play was written.” Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

To understand the scope of such an endeavor, we traced the odyssey of one small object — a flowered skirt worn by an enslaved African American girl born in Loudoun County, Va. — from acquisition to installation. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Gwendolyn and her husband were part of a troubling narrative about African Americans and Alzheimer’s, one with onerous economic and social implications. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Her essay focuses more on Canfield Drive than on Florissant Avenue; it has a good deal to say about how the historical tensions between police and African Americans have played out in public space. Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The contrast between the two artists’ contributions to this wall-filling piece expresses another twofold view of African American life. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Over the next two decades, Rich’s work became looser, bolder and more personal as she addressed the injustices experienced by women, African Americans and those who opposed the Vietnam War or the political establishment. A new Adrienne Rich collection and other best poetry this month 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

For me, a white woman, experiencing the African American point of view is an extra plus. Readers react: A bittersweet farewell to Larry Wilmore's 'The Nightly Show' 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

When the Great Mississippi Flood displaced hundreds of thousands of African Americans in 1927, many chose to keep on going. Alison Saar traces diasporas in the exceptional 'Silt, Soot and Smut' at L.A. Louver Gallery 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I appreciate that narrative about suffering, but it’s either the stereotypical, or the tragedy and pathos,” says Dwandalyn Reece, a curator for National Museum of African American History and Culture. The radical power of ordinary Black life 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

But several months ago, Johnson, 82, got a call from Damion Thomas, a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, who hoped to persuade the Olympian to donate the torch. To Olympian Rafer Johnson, the Opening Ceremony torch he carried is a symbol of upward mobility 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The use of the phrase “Me Too” to vocalize solidarity with assault survivors was started in 2006 by Tarana Burke, an African American woman and civil rights activist. 'It's only a beer': the unwritten contracts between men and women 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Many schools that admitted women and African Americans, which tended to be weaker and financially unstable to begin with, closed. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

It is “our form of social address,” Thomas DeFrantz, a professor of dance and African American studies at Duke University, said. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Jenna Williams is the daughter of an African American father and a Korean mother. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

"What is very significant about it is the depth of the collection. It has pretty much all the marquee names in late 19th and 20th century African American art," said Princeton professor Chika Okeke-Agulu. D.C. museum caught between the Bill Cosby scandal and hosting his family's art trove 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

“My study population is highly diverse, with African American, Native American, Hispanic, immigrant/refugee groups and white families,” she says. Perspective | Seven research-backed tips to make the most of family meals, no matter how often they happen 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The teacher — a young, “jubilantly eccentric” White woman — presents “Invisible Man” to the class, introducing Ralph Ellison’s seminal novel as “the cornerstone of all African American literature.” Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Martin, regally draped in furs, and the feisty African American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the Napoleonic stance and garb of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian revolutionary. Bradley Craft turns literary characters into caricatures 2012-02-18T00:26:31Z

For Twitty, pulling from Creole flavors allows him to marry his Jewish religion and his African American heritage — and to offer a path for other Black Jews to do likewise. "Untraditional" Hanukkah celebrations are often full of traditions for Jews of color 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

Grylls noted the field’s diversity, including the first fully African American team competing internationally. ‘World’s Toughest Race’ in Fiji to debut Aug. 14 on Amazon 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Last month, the Advocate won its first Pulitzer Prize for an investigative series on the Louisiana jury system, which allowed criminal convictions without a unanimous verdict, disadvantaging African American defendants. Perspective | The fierce New Orleans newspaper war is over. Now comes the (surprising) post-mortem. 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

“This was three African American female protagonists who were technologically advanced.” The ‘Hidden Figures’ stars on how working at NASA in the 1960s is a little like Hollywood 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

“It’s very culturally powerful that all these chefs I know are declaring culinary solidarity with African Americans and with the idea that our food is part of a family tree.” Discomfort food: Using dinners to talk about race, violence and America 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Howard University, with its irrefutable prestige, its stellar faculty and its schools of law and medicine, offered a beacon of hope to African Americans. The tale of Marion Barry, king of D.C.

He excoriates his mother's insincere and patronizing attitude to Dorothy, the African American maid. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Black artists were expected to meditate on black ideas, using a visual language derived from ideas about the African roots of the African American or diaspora experience. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the middle section, Cole contemplates visual culture, including not just film and photography but also videos of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and other African Americans killed by police. Teju Cole on knowns, unknowns and 'Known and Strange Things' 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

In addition, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, just released its second “Hollywood Diversity Report,” which found racial and gender imbalances in film and television. New York City Plans to Study the Diversity of Its Cultural Groups 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

And in the opposition it provoked, the movie indirectly led to the birth of an independent African American cinema. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z

Nwandu originally wrote “Pass Over” in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, seeking to channel the grief and rage that so many African Americans were grappling with. Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

With most African Americans living in cities without easy access to snowy mountains, group trips made it easier to participate in the sport, something that remains true. ‘Magic’ on the Slopes: In Vail, 2,000 Black Skiers Celebrate a Milestone 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

“African American history is our history,” the website notes, meaning a nation’s. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

On her blog, she recently posted a photo of a table set for an imaginary African American recipe book club dinner. How to host a better book club 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

And it is relevant to the larger story of the African American heritage as well as what's going on at our southern border. Takei discusses new book, Trump's "evil" 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Baquet, 57, a former editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be the first African American executive editor of the Times. Jill Abramson out as executive editor of New York Times

The $500 million, privately funded project is as large as some of the Smithsonian’s premier attractions, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Perspective | The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. And it could change the museum business. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

The African American effort benefited from the momentum of the American Indian Museum, but the Latino museum — and the proposed Women’s History Museum — have failed to gain traction from the African American Museum’s early success. ‘The Smithsonian can do more and should do more,’ says advocate for a Latino museum 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

"I am, of course, profoundly honored. But what is most wonderful for me, personally, is to know that the prize at last has been awarded to an African American." Happy birthday, Toni Morrison! 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Her husband soared to international celebrity as the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, appearing alongside the white actor Robert Culp in the hit show “I Spy,” which debuted in 1965. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

“We haven’t seen an African American woman in this way in a movie,” Berry said. Halle Berry’s Fight for the Director’s Chair 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

She is founder of MochaManual.com, a parenting website for African Americans and Black Breastfeeding 360°. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z

The list was constructed for teachers seeking resources to help their students talk about the attack in which white gunman Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine African American churchgoers. What to read to understand Charleston attack: A crowdsourced syllabus 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

As an African American artist, he says, “I don’t want to vacate my specificity from the things I’m interested in, in order for it to be embraced.” Filmmaker Arthur Jafa makes his Hirshhorn debut with a stunning video installation 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Frank took photographs of African American men attending a funeral. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Wilson's work is represented in the permanent collection of the African American Museum in Dallas. NYC artist recognized for his unique beeswax art 2012-02-09T08:01:19Z

He thought his saga covering seven generations of a single African American family could be the Black “Gone With the Wind.” Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

The rediscovery of common spiritual roots between African Americans and the Afro-Latin American diaspora is what keeps the Afro-Cuban jazz concept grounded and coherent. 75 Years Ago, Latin Jazz Was Born. Its Offspring Are Going Strong. 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

Hall graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African American studies and creative writing, and learned her trade at the American Repertory Theatre Institute and at the Juilliard School. Tonywatch: Playwright Katori Hall ‘reaching for humanity’ 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

He told America the truth about its unfair treatment of African Americans even when many Americans did not want to hear that truth. Tom Brady is a Super Bowl champ, but he’s no hero 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The work has multiple layers of meaning, Mr. Robinson said: the pennies represent the devaluation of African Americans, who are overlooked, much as pennies themselves are. ‘Fighting for Change’: Life as a Black Artist 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

I don't think enough of the American film and television industry sees the gaze of what the African American woman looks on in the world. "And Just Like That" star Karen Pittman on the "sexy" missed opportunity of Nya romancing Miranda 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

The collection is considered by some to be the most important visual archive of 20th century African American life and culture. Foundations donate historic Jet/Ebony archive to African American Museum 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

It represents the faith, beauty and complexity of African American culture. What makes Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations' an American dance classic? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

But right on time, Fox was swift to trot out African American minister E.W. Call it what it is: The Charleston shooting is domestic terrorism 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

You spoke very eloquently about the importance of the museum to African Americans, and I’d like to explore a little bit about the museum and its place in the country. An interview with Oprah Winfrey: ‘I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

“He was just bitterly opposed to seeing an African American museum on the Mall. It was almost like a part of his DNA,” Lewis said. For Rep. John Lewis, African American Museum was a recurring dream 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

But whether she uses the term “African American woman” or “Black woman,” machine distortions that mangle facial features and hair textures occur at high rates. Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

She was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Oakwood, a predominantly African American neighbourhood. Obituary: Teena Marie 2010-12-27T17:57:00Z

The Associated Press story about her arrival didn’t mention that she was the first African American woman to represent the Empire State. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

“I think that African Americans have a real fair point that the industry isn’t representing them well enough,” said the actor. George Clooney says the Oscars are moving backwards on diversity 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Had half the nominees been African American or Latino or Asian, the year no doubt would have been heralded as another milestone. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Moore’s style is wholly unique, weaving in the myths and legends of her childhood, and lends itself to an immersive, magical portrayal of Liberia beyond its identity as a haven for emancipated African Americans. Read this next: 6 new novels coming in September you won't want to miss 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

By any set of metrics, it is incredibly difficult to break the cycle of generational poverty in the South, according to Conwill, of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

I hope that, in two years from its opening, when the food exhibit will change, the museum also adds something about barbecue, given its unrivaled place in the story of African Americans. The powerful culinary imprint that’s missing from the African American Museum 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

It took 16 years from Dwight’s demotion for another African American man to be considered for the Nasa space program, and another five to send Bluford into orbit. Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Yes, they were human beings, as were the nine African Americans murdered in a Charleston, S.C., church a year ago, when the national conversation did not shy away from saying why those individuals were targeted. The LGBT community feels the effects of ‘straightwashing.’ They’re angry about it. 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

She remembers spending time in Norway, where she was surprised people thought of her as an American, not as an African American. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

That will be one of the challenges for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, which is scheduled to open in 2015. Critic?s Notebook: Emancipating History 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z

Mr. Adjaye’s design for the acclaimed National Museum of African American History and Culture, on the National Mall in Washington, made him one of the world’s most in-demand architects. David Adjaye Relinquishes Roles After Reported Accusations of Misconduct 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

The British architect designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, and also designs furniture. Thinking Outside Judd’s Boxes: His Legacy Still Shapes Artists 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

For a week in August 1965, Watts burned — an outpouring of grief and rage from L.A.'s historic African American heart in protest of decades of economic marginalization and mistreatment at the hands of the police. Noah Purifoy, an artist forged by fire 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Maria Rosario Jackson, if confirmed, will be the first African American and Mexican American to serve as chairperson for the National Endowment for the Arts. Biden announces nominees for humanities and arts endowments 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Thompson, who was African American, was born and raised in Kentucky. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

So she shows them no African Americans at all, which is hardly an advance on Gone With the Wind. The Beguiled: how Hollywood is whitewashing the US civil war 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

But the work is ultimately more interested to show how, from the beginning, African Americans engaged with social media in their own, distinct ways. Review | Picking apart the Internet: An exhibition that addresses the elephant in the room 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The past couple of years have seen a spate of incidents of police brutality towards African Americans, many of them captured on video. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

They tell the story of African Americans, from the transatlantic slave trade that began in the 15th century, through the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, right up to today. African Americans have shaped history, and history has shaped them 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

So Baugh conducted an experiment in which he made calls to the same landlords using African American, Mexican American and “standard American” dialects. ‘What’s up with that white voice?’: The tricky art of linguistic code-switching 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not long before he’s back on a breakneck schedule, hosting the Montreux Jazz Festival and producing a stage show to commemorate the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Review: ‘Quincy’ Captures a Lifelong Love Affair With Music 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Air Force pilot would apply and later become the first African American shuttle pilot. ‘Black in Space’ looks at final frontier of civil rights 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Items salvaged from the wreck will be displayed at the African American history museum when it opens later this year. The very personal mission of the founder of the first diving club for African Americans 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

His autobiographical reading — spiked with tragic headlines — described the perilous passage of a young African American man who dodged gangs and death, unlike several of his friends. Fundraiser put on highway to the danger zone

As well, the song stresses the value of African Americans investing in themselves and their community financially. Jay-Z accused of using anti-Semitic lyrics in “4:44″ song 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The Georgetown University Concert Choir is offering a “Year of Margaret Bonds,” celebrating the prominent African American composer who was a central figure in the Harlem arts community in the 20th century. Perspective | From Bernstein to Bonds, fall season offers orchestral highlights 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s named for Benjamin Banneker, an 18th century African American mathematician and astronomer and the subject of a poem by Rita Dove. The Big Cheeses From the Vineyard 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

In 1972, Chisholm, a Democrat, also became the first African American to run for a major political party's nomination for president. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Dunbar will always have its storied history as the nation’s first public high school for African Americans, founded in 1870 in a church basement on 15th Street NW not far from the White House. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

For generations, African American women from Maryland's rural, maritime communities labored for crab houses on the Eastern Shore. Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s local economy 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

Touch screens, movies, hands-on exhibits and artifacts bring to life the stories of the rebels, loyalists, Native Americans and African Americans who lived through this turbulent time. This interactive museum outside Williamsburg, Va., brings the American Revolution to life 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

With only 10 days until it opens, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is still far from the finish line. African American museum is far from finished 10 days before opening 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The protest passed by a 10-year-old African American girl who was hawking Trump hats and T-shirts that said “BOMB THE S--- OUT OF ISIS.” This is what it feels like at the Republican convention in Cleveland 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Beirut-born Helen Zughaib’s “Syrian Migration” suite depicts refugees from the civil war but also invokes conflict on the U.S.-Mexico border and Jacob Lawrence’s paintings of the African American exodus to the North. Review | In the galleries: Depicting nature’s vital, ephemeral connections 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Here is a short list of pivotal texts by African American women from the past century. A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Listen for the bells on Sept. 24 when churches in Washington and around the country are scheduled to herald the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Obama to Ring In Opening of African American Museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Boone Isaacs – the first African American to hold the role of president, and the third woman – began by acknowledging the work of the 2015 nominees. Oscars 2016: academy to review diversity of membership after stars threaten boycott 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Two are African American, which is worth citing in a genre that's been recently called out for its stark lack of Black representation in its writing staffs. "Tommy" is bracing and earnestly woke, maybe even too much for CBS' audience 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Prairie View is the first state-supported college for African Americans in Texas and the second oldest public university in the state. What a $50 Million Donation Did for One H.B.C.U. 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

The movie silkily traces that progression, noting how Ashe’s formative tennis years were influenced by Dr. Robert Walter Johnson, a physician who mentored Althea Gibson, the first African American tennis player to win Wimbledon. ‘Citizen Ashe’ Review: Advantage, Arthur Ashe 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

According to Sam Reiman, a trustee of the Richard King Mellon Foundation here and a board member of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, the space will be “the birthplace of August Wilson’s successors.” Denzel Washington Honors August Wilson’s Legacy at House Opening 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

She didn’t represent the African American community at large. That racist Reagan recording just confirmed what my community already knew 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The African American Museum gets by on budgets of about $3.5 million a year. African American Museum director Charmaine Jefferson steps down 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

During her speech, she thanked How to Get Away With Murder’s production team “for thinking that a sexualised, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old, dark-skinned African American woman who looks like me”. Emmy awards face the future as television becomes more diverse 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

But it was not until this past weekend, when 31 African American members of the football team threatened to boycott the school’s remaining games, potentially costing millions, that change happened. Lonnae O’Neal: Meet the new power players: athletes. Case in point: Mizzou 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The racial equation has only grown more complex as Jews of color — including African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans — account for a growing percentage of the overall Jewish population. US Jews talk identity, Holocaust after Goldberg’s remarks 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

The Preparatory School for Colored Youth — the first African American public high school in the country — also moved into the new building. Back to school: An opportunity to work together and learn

My mom identifies as African American, but she was adopted and so she is not entirely sure of her lineage. Her first job out of college: the lead in 'West Side Story' at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Comcast agreed last year to launch 10 new independently owned cable channels, with most backed by African Americans and Latinos, by 2018. Magic Johnson to launch TV network via Comcast 2012-02-21T14:01:00Z

I read on the New York Times Lens blog that part of the impetus behind your work was seeing a book about Braddock that didn't include a trace of its African American residents. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

We don’t know what the African American man is saying as he points to the arch above. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

President Obama recognized 17 Americans with the nation’s highest civilian award on Tuesday, including the first African American woman elected to Congress and one of the greatest catchers in baseball history. President gives Medal of Freedom to baseball greats, artists, politicians 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

“I say it is indeed harder for African Americans to succeed but pushing the ‘white privilege’ theory creates victimization,” O’Reilly said. Bill O’Reilly: ‘White privilege’ gives people an excuse to fail 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Knuckles and the other gay African Americans who invented house music began the process of rescuing disco from its own excesses by stripping away the cliches and reconnecting it with its subversive counter-cultural roots. Long live disco 2012-05-21T17:55:01Z

The International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has building issues that will delay the eagerly awaited center’s opening until later in 2023, museum leaders said. International African American Museum Delays Opening 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Despite the conflicts, the mural was a launching pad for my father and other African American artists. Tribute to a long-gone mural and a father who helped create it 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

An "issue" comes up when Joe turns down an African American applicant, because her legs are too easy to identify – the applicant threatens him with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act and a compromise is reached. Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt – review 2012-10-03T07:00:03Z

She made waves early on with “Black Male,” her 1994 Whitney show, which played with the myths and stereotypes of African American masculinity. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, a curator who loves art ‘on a cellular level’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Do you feel like you're going to bridge gaps or help develop a new understanding between Africans from different countries and African Americans? Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Those paths have come full circle, with the new museum reflecting the leadership and contribution of African American scholars and curators who have worked within the mainstream museum world for a generation or more. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Thus, cooking was one of the few professions in which African Americans were encouraged to hone their skills and make a living. In the White House kitchen, hiding in plain sight

The boy refuses to acknowledge that this is a culture designed to humiliate and crush African Americans. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

“My husband was like, ‘Viola…’ ” The real victory for Davis, as she explained, was the fact that her win marked the first for an African American in the category. Watch Viola Davis Explain Her Emmy Speech to Ellen DeGeneres 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Farah Jasmine Griffin is a professor of English, comparative literature and African American studies at Columbia University in New York. Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

You also devote some of your time to working with HIV/Aids organization Amfar to raise awareness for men of color, given that African Americans account for nearly half of new infections every year. Insecure's Jay Ellis: 'Every time I've been pulled over, I thought I was going to get killed' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Only a few of the participating artists had known of the longstanding African American presence in Sag Harbor and Eastville. Artists Rally to Preserve Black History in Sag Harbor 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

There were a lot of African Americans working out there. Willie Nelson: 'If we made marijuana legal, we'd save a whole lotta money and lives' 2012-05-17T14:45:01Z

She joined his company and became a choreographer who approaches African dance as an African American. ‘Homegrown’: At BAM, DanceAfrica Keeps It All in the Family 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Excavating the site, Trocolli says, will help us learn about African American life in the early United States. D.C. archaeologist digs for the truth 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

"Now, they have a demographic problem going forward. They'll be no longer relevant to African Americans." Black U.S. church group calls for NPR boycott over canceled show 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

On Jan. 10, it will open “Represent: 200 Years of African American Art,” an exhibition of about 75 works by more than 50 artists from the museum’s holdings. Black History, Told by Works 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

Washington is quick to note that there will be much in African American museum galleries that is fun and uplifting. African American museum designed with emotions in mind 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

Q: Since the African American Museum opened in 2016 there seems to be more division in the country, more racism and unrest, including protests around Confederate statues and mass shootings motivated by racist beliefs. Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first black leader, on the challenge of making it ‘a place that matters’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The African American minister’s 20-year-old son, Shane Oliver, was gunned down on the streets of Hartford, just two months before the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in suburban Newtown. WATCH: We Are All Newtown Part 1 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, Lee uses the conceit to explore a constellation of forces — social, economic, political, historic — that condition African American life in too many cities. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Last year, the Getty Research Institute acquired Saar’s archive, for its African American Art History Initiative, deeming her “the conscience of the art world for over fifty years.” MOMA’s Heady Introduction to Betye Saar, “The Conscience of the Art World” 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

But according to Effie T Brown, the African American producer who prompted his controversial remark, Damon has yet to contact her personally. Effie T Brown on Matt Damon: diversity comments make sense in his mind 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Ambassador Pageant, hails from Birmingham, Ala., known for some of the bleaker chapters in African American history. Anecdotes from the African American Museum’s grand opening 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

A white guy got the role, so they cast and African American in the role I would have done. Lou Diamond Phillips: "My entire career has been fighting against those labels" 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Could he even be a light-skinned African American trying to pass? Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

Bain said one of the initiatives would be an exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Michael Jackson's ex-publicist touts foundation to 'protect' legacy 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The industry’s tightening self-censorship mandates, which specifically forbade “sex relationships between the white and Black races,” only institutionalized its racism and further marginalized African American actors. The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Holston portrays African Americans and Caribbeans, including fisherman, musicians, two boys on a mule and women at work or in the nude. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Oyelowo was speaking at a dinner honouring Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an African American woman who said that she was “heartbroken and frustrated” by the lack of diversity in the Oscars nominations. George Clooney says the Oscars are moving backwards on diversity 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

It started as early as the 1930s, with African American musicians migrating to Seattle to escape the Jim Crow South. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Tarquinius is an Etruscan conqueror; there’s a strong anti-Etruscan, anti-outsider sentiment among the Romans in the work; and casting both Tarquinius and Lucretia with African American singers drives home the point very effectively. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

There was a National Museum of the American Indian attached to the Smithsonian, and progress was being made toward a museum on the National Mall celebrating African Americans’ history. Asian Americans push for Smithsonian gallery of their own 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

In the early 20th century, as African Americans moved en masse to towns and cities across the country, movies were becoming the most popular form of entertainment. William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A survey exhibition organized by independent curator Todd Levin provides an overview of work by 37 African American women artists from over the last two centuries. Datebook: Two centuries of African American women, painting California, art about 'La Bestia' 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

But it still possessed the distinction of making history with the nomination of Ava DuVernay for best director, the first time an African American woman has received such an honor. At a notably relevant Golden Globes, the film world is seen struggling to keep pace 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Soon after, the geniuses in marketing come up with a new opportunity to raise his rating among the African American demographic. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

Benjamin is a light-skinned African American whom Portia assumes is white. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

About half of all at-home fathers are white, 20 percent Hispanic and 16 percent African American, according to the report. Don’t Call them Mr. Mom: More Dads at home with kids because they want to be

One of the seven principles of Kwanzaa, the word means self-determination and it is Parker’s favorite in the lexicon of the weeklong, nonreligious holiday that celebrates African American culture. Day 27: What Are Kids Saying About Kwanzaa? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Nor has Strand radically reworked a script that seemed implausible in its portrayal of Cat, the Harvard-trained African American clerk who so rudely claws at her boss. Review | Gero still rules as Scalia in ‘The Originalist’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

He and his wife ran Songbird, a company that produced African American historical revues, including the musical “Shades of Harlem,” which was staged Off Broadway at the Village Gate in 1983. Adam Wade, Network Game Show Pioneer, Is Dead at 87 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Conservatives, this organization of governors, freaked out because they saw that movement as aligned to African American movement,” Mr. Luhrmann said. Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

“When you read her letters,” Celenza says, “her biggest issue wasn’t so much being African American but being a woman. She really couldn’t break that barrier.” Perspective | A forgotten voice for civil rights rises in song at Georgetown 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

"I would never want to function in exclusion," said Brown, whose company's mission is rooted in "the unique African American journey to freedom." Plan seeks diversity at SoCal theater companies — but some question it 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Thomas is an assistant professor in the Reading/Writing/Literacy Division at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and is co-editor of "Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era." A black teen is shot in Kekla Magoon's 'How It Went Down' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Smithsonian will follow the model of the African American Museum by opening a permanent space for Latino exhibitions in the National Museum of American History, a Smithsonian spokeswoman said. ‘The Smithsonian can do more and should do more,’ says advocate for a Latino museum 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

The new African American Museum will feature a host of specialty items made expressly for its shop. New museum’s gift shop has a $3,000 quilt, a $1 pencil and everything in between 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

So the initial appropriation led to re-appropriation, as African American artists repurposed what the European artists had initially borrowed. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, some U.S. retailers refused to sell romance fiction with African Americans on the cover, much less interracial covers. Love Knows No Color: Interracial Romance Novels Find Growing Audience and Acceptance 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Some moviegoers said the story was now relevant, given current conversations around police brutality towards African American men. New York first-night moviegoers shrug off The Birth of a Nation controversy 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Talking about the national anthem as an African American man?” ‘Angels’ in Maryland: An epic combination 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

To see an augmented reality presentation of how the African American museum was built, open this story in the latest version of the Washington Post Classic app for iPhone or iPad. Perspective | The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The cast includes Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall, though the lead character, a young African American from Queens who infiltrates the upper echelons of Manhattan society, is played by newcomer Devon Terrell. Steve McQueen on the Oscars whitewash: ‘I’m hoping we can look back and say this was a watershed moment’ 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

That museum was designed by Davis Brody Bond, which also serves on the team that designed the African American museum. Even a $540 million building can suffer from cost cutting 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

In 2020, Wells was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the lynching of African Americans. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

As revealed in “Alabama v. King,” Gray’s career as central Alabama’s most effective advocate for the legal rights of African Americans makes for a fascinating story of grit, determination and courtroom acumen. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Her parents were both ­college-educated — unusual for African American couples of that era. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Part one details the work of suffrage pioneers and the clash between the rights of African American women and efforts to gain support in former Confederate states. New this week: Willie Nelson, Nick race special, ‘Hamilton’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Upset but unfazed, he moved his wife and three children to Europe, not unlike many African Americans who had fled there for the freedom they could not obtain here. Perspective | Melvin Van Peebles was my father, too 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

West calls the group made by and for African Americans “the rarest of the rare.” Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

He’s all in favor of filling the empty churches, whose African American congregations have slowly migrated to the suburbs. The $2.5 million condo has arrived in Washington — and it has a fabulous view of a Chick-fil-A 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

From my Spike Lee days, we’ve always been a group of filmmakers that are concerned about the future of African Americans and freedom of self-expression and being politically sound. Black Panther Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Three Decades of Dressing Superheroes 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Though insisting that blacks could never be equal to whites, Cabel asserts that the “civilizing” influence of slavery has improved African Americans’ condition. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

“Boundless,” by North Carolina artist Stephen Hayes, will be unveiled this month — and it aims to put forward a new story line about African Americans during the Civil War. In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

The Sweet Home Cafe was open and serving free samples from four stations that represent the geographical diversity of African American cooking. African American museum is far from finished 10 days before opening 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

She posed for a photo with an African American male volunteer, where they pointed at each other. A local news station picked this up and stated that Hodges was doing a known “gang-sign.” Jon Stewart mocks “gang-sign” controversy: “All this time, I’ve been the lead-in for a notorious gang member” 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

One of the show’s most poignant images is a close-up of an electric organ, destroyed and abandoned in a church in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, the African American neighborhood swamped by Hurricane Katrina. Review | In the galleries: ‘Time Capsule’ retrospective highlights jazz’s influence on Frank Stewart 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

“We’re going to be looking at multiple ways of addressing the concerns of African American people.” Pharrell Williams proposes Virginia Black Lives Matter art 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Most of the eastern half of the state was given to African American and Native American people, and then petroleum and natural gas were discovered after. ‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Critics have argued that her use of imagery and colloquialisms normally associated with African American culture – like the gold grills and extravagant chains – is a crass example of cultural appropriation. Miley Cyrus has gone hip-hop. What's the problem? 2013-07-05T15:04:32Z

But if the bosses and editors aren't black, and are viewing African Americans through that Permit Patty/ BBQ Becky lens, that influence will taint the media coverage, regardless of their intentions. Mississippi racist campground debacle: We need to address the roots of white Americans' black fear 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson of the African American Literature Book Club said his concern about street lit was that it emphasizes marketing and celebrity more than good writing. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z

Said Lee Daniels when accepting his director award for his work on “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” ”This is a big time not just for African American cinema, but for cinema.” Bullock, Roberts Crowned at Hollywood Film Awards 2013-10-22T15:14:20Z

Mr. Dial often used the figure of a tiger to portray the African American struggle. Thornton Dial, who turned scrap metal, animal bones and other found objects into museum art, dies at 87 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Griffin Burchard never forgot the dilapidated Virginia cemetery named after one of the most famous African Americans of the 19th century. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

But readers interested in diaries are also asking: How does her book claim a place in the history of African American women's diaries? Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Despite the broad racial caricature, the program featured black actors of genuine distinction, and it played an important role in the evolution of African American comedy. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created

Dear Carolyn: I am a white adoptive mother of four beautiful African American children of different skin tones. Carolyn Hax: When people see a rainbow family through the prism of stupidity 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

The choice was a nod both to art history and African American heritage. Review | A peek into the process behind the popular Obama portraits 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Among the immigrant and minority groups in the city were Germans, Irish and Eastern Europeans, as well as African Americans, whom Mr. Jones described as a “small but vibrant community.” Revisiting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal School in 1881 and created a cultural oasis for a deeply intellectual, African American middle class. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

But the Smithsonian’s African American museum is likely to face increased attention. A thorny question for African American museum: Whose story do we tell? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Some exaggerated the ‘grit’ and turned it into a roar,” notes Elizabeth Fine, author of “Soulstepping: African American Step Shows.” A rhythm travels from black sororities to a Paris runway — and now to Seventh Avenue

The parents told Bryant about the powerful emotions elicited by seeing an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about another young Black boy. What became of Trayvon Martin’s hoodie? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

This influence isn’t new, points out Crystal S. Anderson, an affiliate professor of African and African American Studies at George Mason University. These Black women are obsessed with Korean TV dramas. Here’s why. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

To execute her vision, Henderson evicted the residents, a community of working-class African Americans. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Shortly before the pandemic struck, Greedo retained a prominent Houston attorney, Morris Overstreet, a former Potter County prosecutor and the first African American attorney ever elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

African Americans only account for 13 percent of the population, yet they make up 41 percent of state prisoners and 44 percent of federal prisoners serving time for drug offenses. 10 shameful ways the United States is failing to preserve basic human rights 2014-03-18T11:50:00Z

The great reporter J. Anthony Lukas tells the epic story of the now largely forgotten Boston busing crisis through the eyes of three families: one white gentrifyers, one working-class Irish and one African American. Last-minute holiday shopping list! 2012-12-21T17:57:00Z

Older African Americans develop Alzheimer’s at a higher rate than any other group of older Americans. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The National Museum of African American History and Culture shone a light Monday on a major milestone — the completion of exterior construction — by lighting up the museum itself. At the African American History Museum, a giant flicker of things to come 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The store at the Udvar-Hazy center is open and those at the American History, American Indian and African American museums are expected to reopen in a few weeks. Smithsonian lays off 237 as covid-19 continues to limit operations 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Tyrus, who is African American, is a central figure in the show’s relentless lampooning of woke culture. Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that’s no joke 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Copeland made history last year when she became the first African American female principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. TV listings for Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

New style: "You weak and unacceptable woman, homosexual, African American, go away, I do not want you." David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z

Created by Congress in 2003, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will open its $540 million facility with 11 exhibitions, including the one on slavery. ‘Humble objects’ of a sunken slave ship tell a powerful and emotional story 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

More recently, preservationists have sought to highlight the achievements of African Americans with interactive maps exploring landmarks related to Black history and the Underground Railroad. City Approves Landmarks Honoring Chinese Americans and Native Americans 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Adams graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and African American studies. Minnesota Historical Society deputy chosen to lead Anacostia Museum 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Black-ish,” debuted last fall with a unique premise: a successful African American advertising executive, played by Anthony Anderson, worries that his children are losing touch with their heritage, thanks to their suburban California upbringing. Ask a Show Runner: Submit Questions for Kenya Barris of ‘Black-ish’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Through findagrave.com, she found a headstone in an African American cemetery there that almost precisely matched the birth and death dates. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Now in the gift shop of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, this journal is fronted by a powerful 1988 piece by Glenn Ligon. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The seeds of the show were sown six years ago when the food journalist Jeff Gordinier was reporting an article for The New York Times on African American cooking. The Making of ‘High on the Hog,’ Bringing Black Food History to TV 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

One could argue that the African American experience in the U.S., and the South is foreclosed in that sense because of the inequality of land ownership. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Morrison retired from Princeton in 2006, but she continues to write. her upcoming book, "God Save the Child," is about a dark-skinned African American woman who calls herself Bride. Happy birthday, Toni Morrison! 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Roth's African American portraiture, I will argue, makes better sense when contextualized within the complex, shifting relationship between Blacks and Jews in the United States. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

It has meant that while the actor feels she has a decent grasp on the Jewish part of herself, the African American part is slipperier altogether – “more patchworky”, she says. Maya Rudolph: ‘I'm not a woman in comedy. I'm a comedian' 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

The Gullah Geechee people are an African American community that range up and down the coast from North Carolina to northern Florida who have kept incredible ties to their African origin communities. The Head of Charleston’s New African American Museum on Curiosity, Courage and Storytelling 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

But, he added, “it’s not just about African Americans.” More Terence Blanchard Coming to Met Opera After Success of ‘Fire’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

The racism behind the disproportionate number of incarcerated African Americans is blatant and disgusting. The First Step Act is only the first step in criminal justice reform. What about an apology? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

“That’s why with African American movies, you see a lot of comedy, some smaller dramas. Things that can be made at certain price points,” Alvarez says. A guide to making Hollywood less white, by the filmmakers who have done it 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

For others, the film hews to the “tragic arc,” as one BlackStar participant put it, that too often defines how African Americans have been depicted, often at the hands of well-meaning white artists. Perspective | ‘Detroit’ and the question of cultural gatekeeping 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

The disclaimer refers to an incident between Bayleigh, this season’s sole African American houseguest, and JC, a Hispanic gay man who is five feet tall. “Who Is America?” and “Big Brother” separately and together illuminate our racial divide 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

The beauty of working for a culture-specific museum …  is that we celebrate African American art, history and culture all year round. Do we still need Black History Month? A conversation about the annual celebration 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Jefferson’s memoir, meanwhile, offers candid and often ironic commentary of her upbringing in an affluent African American family in Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s. Paul Beatty, Margo Jefferson win National Book Critics Awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The reason African American people are having success is that they’re getting the opportunity to put broad ideas on TV and in movies and ground them with the perspective of an African American mind. Ice Cube and Kevin Hart: ‘Hollywood is realising that black people go to movies’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

When “The Proud Family” debuted on the Disney Channel on Sept. 15, 2001, it introduced one of TV’s first animated African American families. A Groundbreaking Cartoon Family Returns, ‘Louder and Prouder’ 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

As an African American actress, Payton, a mainstay at Signature, amounts to a trailblazer in the central role of Donna. Signature Theatre will take over the Anthem for a buoyant summer run of ‘Mamma Mia!’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Biases like these are inadvertently built into the technology we use at many different stages, said Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology and associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University. Healthcare algorithm used across America has dramatic racial biases 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

“You know: the rate of African American kids who grow up without fathers.” Review | With ‘Concrete Rose,’ Angie Thomas eviscerates stereotypes about Black families 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

A very disturbing image of a group of African American teens handcuffed by undercover U.S. This is what over-policing looks like: Black teens handcuffed by undercover cops for selling water on a hot day 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

Next spring, they start shooting the Personal History of Rachel Dupree, the story of an African American woman struggling to farm the Badlands in South Dakota in 1917. 'The voice of the voiceless': how Viola Davis and Julius Tennon are changing the face of Hollywood 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

A Jewish convert with the Twitter handle @koshersoul, Twitty is deeply engrossed in both the African American and Jewish food traditions. His Paula Deen takedown went viral. But this food scholar isn’t done yet. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

“I think Nancy Reagan was well-intentioned but ultimately became an unknowing pitchwoman for a vicious, draconian drug war,” says Hill, 37, a professor of African American studies at Morehouse College. On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said no. On AIDS, she said nothing. 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

A Black friend wanted to counter the longstanding unknowability of her ancestry due to the lack of vital records for generations of African Americans. 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

“You see a lot of great storytelling right now, especially from African and African American artists.” Painting Black Warriors, With Michael K. Williams as His Model 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

This is especially true of Gates' Black subjects, for reasons explained plainly in his 2019 book "In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past" and excerpted on this site: Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

The fifth movement shifts between evocations of the African American spiritual tradition and an exercise in shuffle rhythms. Wynton Marsalis debuts a stirring ‘Blues Symphony’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Their holdings also included a trove of Haitian art, which they bought on trips to Haiti in the early 1960s, before switching their focus to African American artists. Vivian Hewitt, Who Amassed a Major Collection of Black Art, Dies at 102 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

When Whitley responds that “we still have the Constitution to protect us,” Sister Souljah reminds her that “when that piece of paper was written, African Americans in this country were slaves.” How ‘A Different World’ dealt with the L.A. riots and set the stage for a more political TV 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Less noticed was that the structure had been similarly repurposed before, serving from 1985 to 1998 as a workspace for African American artists. Review | In the galleries: Multiple works by Black artists create a vision of authority 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

But the biggest of them all will is the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, which opens in Washington, D.C., late next month. Why the exterior of D.C.'s soon-to-open African American museum is an exciting sign of what's inside 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

One day, Mr. Shapiro typed “African American” into a database of historical newspapers. Use of ‘African-American’ Dates to Nation’s Early Days 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Just as important, Marshall's appointment symbolized the heights African Americans could reach, much like President Obama's election did in 2008. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Guest added, “Now I have a mission not only for young African American boys but for all Americans to really understand a race of people, African Americans.” Painting Black Warriors, With Michael K. Williams as His Model 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Church’s distinctive interpretive addition was a small tableau beneath the bridge, with an African American guide pointing out features of the scene to a seated woman. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

But both artists have stressed the importance of creating portraiture of African Americans that will reconfigure the canon and the museum in more inclusive ways. Review | The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Will the Emmys make history by nominating three African American women -- Viola Davis, Taraji P. Henson and Kerry Washington -- for lead actress in a drama series? Emmys 2015: Watch a live stream of the nominations 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Still, the former vice president enjoyed strong support among African American voters during the Democratic primary and is counting on topping Trump by wide margins with them, as well as young voters, in November. Republicans push Kanye 2020. But will it really hurt Biden? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

But they also appealed to wealthy African Americans and their corporate, civic and religious institutions. African American museum’s fundraising touches deep history among donors 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The artist was in New York’s Times Square last week to offer his latest corrective, unveiling a massive bronze statue of a young African American man in urban streetwear sitting astride a galloping horse. Artist Kehinde Wiley on what we can do with offensive art 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Shown here are two relief sculptures about the history of African American slaves and freedmen in Alexandria. In the galleries: A personal look at a maker of monuments 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Fields argues that neglected homes associated with prominent African Americans should be bought by the local government, restored and turned into tourist destinations. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

It is a profoundly nuanced exploration of the spaces African American men are expected to occupy in our society. After Ferguson: U.S. museums need to show a work by Natalie Bookchin 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But the jury of seven men and five women, which included two African Americans, was introduced to a much more manipulative and scheming character. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Yet another story focused on young, conservative African Americans who advocated that blacks withdraw their support for the Democratic Party in the midterms. Sinclair Broadcast gives its pro-Trump analyst a cold shoulder, then rethinks it 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The song was “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” an African American spiritual ballad celebrating the birth of Christ. They came to IHOP for pancakes. They stayed for her song. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Nichols welcomed Jones to the museum a year ago when he was researching the tradition of hat-wearing in the African American community. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Well, I was in Philly the other day, and the head of the laborers’ union is African American. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

I prefer the term Black to African American. Chuck D: ‘I don’t think old folks should be leaders’ 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Archbishop King signing a memorandum on behalf of the African American Community Police Relations Board, which worked to improve transparency in local policing. Fifty Years of Worship at the Church of John Coltrane 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The former accounting student at Temple University is the only African American woman to own and run a comics business on the East Coast. For Women’s History Month, honoring the sisters in the City of Brotherly Love 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

But the fact is, here we are, three decades later, and a major network premiering a comedy about an African American family is still news. Review: A Family Seeks Its True Colors on black-ish 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Represent: 200 Years of African American Art is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through April 5. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

“I was captivated,” Johnston writes in his 2012 book, “From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family.” What lies beneath: Searching for the bones of Yarrow Mamout, a turn-of-the-19th-century Georgetown celebrity 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

She also just happened to be African American. Diahann Carroll obituary 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

A young African American woman in my office says “aks” instead of “ask.” When your supervisor wants you to buy an expensive product for their side hustle 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

In a field estimated at 2,000 astrophysicists fully employed in research or teaching in higher education in the United States, Patterson believes that perhaps 15 are African American. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

I saw real racial hypocrisy, because an overwhelmingly big portion of the African American males at that school got expelled, and that was a school I don’t think had ever expelled anyone. Jon Bernthal’s Guide to Making It as a Supporting Actor 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

American Heart Association says more than 40 percent of American blacks have high blood pressure, and the HHS found African American adults are 60 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than white Americans. Strange Fruit: Skittles, Trayvon Martin and Corporate Responsibility 2013-07-18T08:00:49Z

The posters, like the films themselves, perpetuated some of the very stereotypes about black people that earlier generations of African American film-makers had sought to challenge. The slow rise of black cinema 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

A pair of Baltimore artists interpret African American history in the Stamp Gallery’s “Black Maths,” which plucks images and sounds from 1900 and 2015, respectively. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Hammer show is itself placed in even broader context by “Places of Validation,: Art and Progression,” at the California African American Museum, back in Exposition Park. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z

Once again, no actors of color were nominated, and “Creed” and “Straight Outta Compton” — both directed by and starring African American artists — were nominated for the contributions of a white cast member and screenwriters, respectively. ‘Spotlight’s’ best-picture Oscar shows that big, noisy movies don’t always win 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

But most of them masked far more troubling truths about the lengths to which women, and African American women in particular, must go simply to survive. Perspective | ‘Female agency’ is Hollywood’s latest catchphrase. ‘Zola’ takes it further. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Taylor was praised variously as the “hope and promise of a proud people” and as a man who “expanded opportunities for African Americans in fields that had largely been closed to them.” Does this face look familiar? Valerie Jarrett’s ancestor honored with stamp. 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The couple were married by the Rev. William Robey, a free African American who had been ordained as a minister and who taught black children in Leesburg before and after the war. For a while she was a name and a status — enslaved. Now we know more 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

“Rebel Soul Power” is a photolithographic print that’s part of an evolving series that explores the identity of African American men and how those identities are shaped. Nine black artists reflect on the question: “Is America at a point of reckoning?” 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

“I’m one of the most recognized lawyers in America, and I know that I’m one of the most recognized African American lawyers in the country.” Billy Martin: Washington’s go-to lawyer when you’re in trouble. Real trouble. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

It was actually very easy for me to believe that African Americans, and other POC had little to no place in literature. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

That was the largest number of African Americans ever in one class, the newspaper reported. When the 1967 Detroit riot came home 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

I was passing by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington the other afternoon when the raking winter sun made the patterned, bronzed-aluminum facade glow. MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The author of multiple books, Cooper was an advocate for civil rights and for equality in education for African Americans and women. There Are 13 Quotations in a U.S. Passport. Guess How Many Are From Men? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Emulating Lawrence’s series of paintings about the exodus of African Americans from the Jim Crow South, the Beirut-born local artist began painting “Syrian Migration.” Review | In the galleries: Erika Cleveland’s ‘Healing Dolls’ are playful in their duality 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

“It’s all about white supremacy and racism,” said the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

But African Americans tend not to vote for candidates solely because they are Black, while West’s status with Americans age 18 to 29 is actually more unfavorable than favorable, Jackson said. Republicans push Kanye 2020. But will it really hurt Biden? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Q: Is there a great theater company specifically for African American actors, like Alvin Ailey is for dancers? Longtime African American actor Robert Hooks on the state of black theater, then and now 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

African Americans who identify acronymically as "BAPs" — for "black American princesses and princes" — are featured in this new reality series set in St. Louis. TV This Week July 20 - 26: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

It remains an institutional cornerstone of the African American community in Charlottesville and surrounding counties to the present day. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

“African Americans are very serious about potato salad,” soul food scholar and author Adrian E. Miller told Salon. Crimes against potato salad: How not to get uninvited from the cookout 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

The singer-guitarist is of Sri Lankan descent but showed an affinity for African American culture; he sounded a bit like Richie Havens and sang a tune about former Black Panther Huey Newton. Well-deserved ovations for Rhiannon Giddens 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

In 1989, Ms. Morrison joined the faculty of Princeton, where she taught courses in the humanities and African American studies, and was a member of the creative writing program. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

However, African American writers and activists immediately objected to its depiction of passive, compliant slaves, and the sentimentality with which it depicted the pre-civil war US south. Gone With the Wind returns to HBO Max with disclaimer that film ‘denies the horrors of slavery’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

The Panthers offered young, disenfranchised African Americans a sense of refuge and communal purpose. New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

A major Kansas City institution looks to its own backyard for this locally focused show, featuring 36 painters, sculptors, photographers and others in the African American Artists Collective, established there in 2014. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

They came from many backgrounds, with Latinos and African Americans in the majority. The pitfalls and joys of taking a stand with music and with youngsters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

A keynote address will also be delivered by Imani Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University. 7 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

One of ABC's new shows is a rarity -- a prime-time network comedy revolving solely around an African American family. TCA 2014: ABC's 'black-ish' joins the post-Huxtable generation 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

We think it could also lend itself to other, non-Asian creators — Indian American, African American, Native American — and it can spin off and tell their stories, their versions of "The Last Samurai," if you will. Matt Damon and George Takei, check out "White Savior," a samurai satire challenging beloved movies 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

I can rattle off a whole bunch of African American female actors in this area who I know are great actresses, but we’re not seeing them. Actors Emily Townley and Dawn Ursula talk about ‘The Totalitarians’ and D.C. theater life

Take a tour of Central Park that conjures Seneca Village, the largest community of free African American property owners in early-19th-century New York. 7 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

“Harlem Shuffle” takes place in the late 1950s and early ’60s when the legendary African American neighborhood is teetering between commercial vibrancy and criminal dynasties. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Saluting these African American theater pioneers has reconnected Wolfe to a more innocent period in his own professional life. How 'Shuffle Along' director George C. Wolfe brought back the 1921 show that changed Broadway forever 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

The protection department’s leaders, Wallace and Reaves, both African American, are federal employees, too, and Wallace is among the museum’s 100 highest-paid federal workers. Guards at National Gallery of Art complain of hostile environment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

While he showcases the power of blending African American and Afro-Cuban music, Cimafunk is also engaging in a cultural mixing that celebrates a kind of Latin American hybridity, on his terms. Cimafunk’s Quest to Create One Nación Under a Groove 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The other, through his big-screen portrayals of servile black men, was a throwback, an unwelcome reminder of some of the humiliations endured for centuries by African Americans. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’: An unusual sparring match

They also kicked around ideas about a local program for African American teenage boys modeled after President Obama’s national initiative to empower young black men. She loved Marion Barry, she married him — but don’t call Cora Masters Barry a widow

At the debate, Welker tried some gamesmanship of her own when she set up Harris to take a shot at Buttigieg for his bungled attempts to inflate his support among African Americans. From "Survivor" to D.C., women are showing up strong on TV, but does patriarchal America care? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

“This type of project in an African American community focused on African American culture is a unique opportunity in my career,” he said. National Juneteenth Museum Takes Shape in Fort Worth, Texas 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

The African-American painters Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff created the scenes for the lobby of a Los Angeles insurance company’s headquarters, designed by the architect Paul Williams, who was also African American. ArtsBeat: Smithsonian Won't Buy Murals of Black Life in California 2011-03-28T19:17:25Z

One of the authors mentions the dreadful segregationist admissions policy imposed at the Birmingham Museum of Art in the 1950s and 1960s only allowing African Americans in one day per week. The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

“He felt a responsibility to write characters of African American descent who were not stereotypes.” James L. White, who wrote screenplay for Ray Charles film, dies at 67 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Dead Lecturer/‌Distant ‌‌Relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980” is, among other things, a show about race and abstraction, with work drawn from more than 50 Asian American and African American artists and poets. Art We Saw This Fall 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

At the “Queen Sugar” premiere, she made a point of bringing Christiana Hooks, the African American associate producer who oversaw postproduction, to the stage. Bradford Young, Oscar firsts and why inclusive film crews matter 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Copeland declined to comment, but in a video clip on the Kennedy Center’s website, she notes the opportunities that the companies she picked offer to African American dancers. Perspective | Justin Peck, Misty Copeland curate ‘Ballet Across America’ series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Afrofuturism has roots in African American science fiction and encompasses literature, music and visual art exploring African American culture dating to slavery. Afrofuturism showcased at Carnegie Hall in 2-month festival 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The National Mall, studded with landmarks and museums, will soon have one more jewel in its cultural crown: the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, scheduled to open late this year. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwama Mbalia, the young hero delves into African American folklore and African myths in a fascinating parallel dimension. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Water Bears’ 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The movie fails to give some key contextual information: Owens was one of 18 African Americans who went to the Berlin Olympics, three times the number who’d competed at the Los Angeles games in 1932. Review: Jesse Owens Biopic 'Race' Fails Before the Finish Line 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The roughly $30-million film is tracking well, especially among older and African American audiences. Audiences ready to marvel at 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

With some classmates, he was flipping through a book of photos of African American life in South Carolina when they landed on a photograph of the Rev. James Edmund Prioleau, Brooks’s grandfather. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks?

“We decided to work on a series about people most under fire and disparaged by Trump,” Fairey said about the posters, which feature a Latina, a Muslim American and an African American. While Donald Trump danced, Shepard Fairey debuted his 'American Civics' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

Recently, the foundation offered free virtual therapy to African Americans affected by the racial unrest and the covid-19 pandemic, which disproportionately affected people of color. Why Taraji P. Henson is trying to shed light on the mental health crisis among Black youth 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Honfleur’s is about the majority African American “Chocolate City” that lasted — by U.S. In the galleries: Heading home 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

African American quilting practices were also used as a template for the plaza’s diamond-shape stones. In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

It was also vital that visitors see a wide variability of work, “so they will understand there isn’t any such thing as ‘African American art.’ ‘Fighting for Change’: Life as a Black Artist 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

That could have been the end of the story: a white-owned, well-funded company rides the legalisation wave while the African American felon is sidelined, a pattern repeated across California. Pot entrepreneur and ex-felon fights for black role in California's budding industry 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

On May 17, 1957, King stood on those same memorial steps to speak on African American voting rights. In the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

When museum guests stream through the lobby, “Fade to Black” also will provide an introduction to a related exhibition, “Center Stage: African American Women in Silent Race Films.” His art centers on silent-era race films with African American actors, names that 'Fade to Black' 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Last week, along with the name change, the Convention elected a fiery black preacher as the first African American president in its 167 year history. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z

Rob's mother and father lived in the community with "the second highest concentration of African Americans living below the poverty line in America," Hobbs says. 'The Short and Tragic Life' explores class, race amid struggle and wonder 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

And wishing she could plan a “Southern plantation wedding” for her brother, with African American servers in the part of antebellum slaves. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z

Once seen as a profanity-spewing angry young man, Rock is becoming the Jon Stewart of the African American community, an astute social satirist bursting out of the comedy box. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z

“I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, it has crossed over!’” said Weldon, a linguist who studies African American English. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Played by Robin Givens, she was one of the few African American female characters to be the main love interest in a romantic comedy at the time. ‘Boomerang’ at 30: Think of It as the Robin Givens Rom-Com 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Topics: African American, , , , This story was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

On this spot now, looking a bit like a ship itself, stands the eagerly awaited and long-delayed new International African American Museum. In Charleston, a Museum Honors a Journey of Grief and Grace 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

They accepted women and men, African Americans and whites, the disabled and the able-bodied into the training programs. 300 volunteers for African American museum: ‘We’re ready.’ 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

But even the name change and a partnership with Color of Change, an African American civil rights organization, was not enough to satisfy deep-seated misgivings about the series. KKK documentary canceled after A&E learns producers paid Klan members 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Enter Roberson, 30, an African American chef who grew up near Frederick., Ethiopian cuisine is unlike any other. Why are some chefs trying to modernize it? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

They will be the first new Smithsonians since the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened almost five years ago. Billie Jean King and Tory Burch named to board of proposed Women’s History Museum 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Baraka’s transformation from Beat poet to nationalist to Third World socialist, Vangelisti writes, allowed him to enrich American letters by creating a greater range of African American poetic language and a politicized avant-garde. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

West will be at the White House Thursday as the president desperately attempts to use the star for legitimacy with African American voters. Jimmy Kimmel knows what Kanye West loves about Donald Trump 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The show was organized by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which has gallery space at the history museum. Antiques: Edna St. Vincent Millay?s Home; the Apollo; Irons Galore 2010-07-29T20:44:00Z

Housed in the 1925 Houston Light Guard Armory building, the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is home to one of the largest private collections of African American military artifacts in the country. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Another top drama contender to suffer disappointment was the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic "Selma," which made history with the first nomination for best director for an African American woman. 'Boyhood' prevails in Golden Globes that may alter Oscar race 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

As a 16-year-old, she was well aware that African Americans lived “parallel lives to white people”, and that the circumstances were devastatingly unequal. Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has nearly 37,000 artifacts, each of which had to be acquired, authenticated and registered in a database. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

You can like a little rock and roll and ride a skateboard and still be an authentic African American or Caribbean American. "Somebody's got to wear the leather pants": Rick James doc filmmaker on the infamous rock star 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Unlike schools for African Americans, it was well equipped with labs, a gym and stadium. Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Memphis” tells the story of one African American family, the Norths, across three matrilineal generations, the narrative divided among the perspectives of the family’s matriarch, Hazel; her daughters, Miriam and August; and her granddaughter Joan. ‘Memphis’ Is a Rhapsodic Hymn to Black Women 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

The Smithsonian on Wednesday named Kevin Young, a poet, archivist, author and editor, as the new director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Kevin Young, Poet and Author, Is Named to Lead African American Museum 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

African American history is written even more explicitly in Malik Lloyd’s two pieces. Review | In the galleries: Honfleur show celebrates the wonders of three dimensions 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

He told African Americans, who were contracting the coronavirus in disproportionate numbers, to take precautions to protect their “Big Mama.” Former surgeon general faces his wife’s cancer — and the ‘Trump Effect’ 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

With shades of Sapphire’s hardness, the myth embodies the idea of African American women as perpetually tough and uniquely indestructible. “Oh, girl, get up. You got this”: Why the “strong black woman” stereotype is an albatross 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Greenidge’s account is also fiction, but better history, in that it conveys what a catastrophe this was for African Americans in New York City. Hitting the Right Notes When Setting History to Song 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

But I’m glad Gene was able to do the film because it was really rough in the city back then, especially for African Americans. An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Most of the work that we cite uses African Americans/blacks interchangeably,” says Fargo. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

It is the stories of African American men, women and children lining up to enter Ebbets Field for the first time. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

And Bradford Young became the first African American cinematographer to be nominated for his contribution to a movie, in this case to the science-fiction drama “Arrival.” Oscar nominations: The diversity is impressive. Now time for a long-lasting reset. 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

The California African American Museum marks the King holiday with family-friendly art activities, live music, panels and workshops, as well as a marathon reading of the slain civil-rights leader’s speeches and sermons. Weekend Picks for Jan. 11-15: 'I Am My Own Wife,' ‘PST: Live Art LA/LA,' MLK Day and more 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

There was a point when we were building the African American Museum, still conceptualizing, when I was able to hire other curators. ‘You can’t be a historian of black America without being hopeful,’ says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The story begins when he’s having a liquid lunch with his journo buddies and gets word that an unidentified African American man has been found shot in the head, the body floating off Hains Point. Book World: ‘Murder, D.C.’ by Neely Tucker 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Walter Street was built as an enclave for working-class African Americans in the early 20th century. They got married in the middle of the friendliest street in town — and the neighbors all came to help 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Noteworthy for its Avenue of Oaks and inclusion of African American heritage. Outside Charleston, three acres of Vietnam live in South Carolina’s Lowcountry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

His death sparked a new wave of frank discussion about race and policing in African American households around the city. Eric Garner killing, one year on: ‘Sit down son, it’s time for The Talk’ 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

“It started out as a brand with mostly African American customers buying it and now it’s a much more diverse brand,” Gennette says. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The irony is that it also opens up African Americans more to the police. From the "Green Book" to Buicks, PBS' "Driving While Black" examines the history of Black mobility 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

On the first season of "Big Brother," William "Mega" Collins, an outspoken African American houseguest, was the first evicted from the show after he angrily confronted his predominantly white fellow participants about race. 'Big Brother' returns for a new season in aftermath of cast turmoil 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Woter turnout among African American men — again, women wouldn't gain the vote for another 50 years of any race — was really high. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

But if all goes as planned, sometime in 2012, ground will be broken for some rather remarkable Hendrix-influenced structures at the 2.3-acre Jimi Hendrix Park next to the Northwest African American Museum. Vision for Hendrix Park as vibrant as namesake 2011-08-15T04:01:24Z

But Bunch said the Smithsonian looks forward to working with the NCPC, an agency that he worked with during the design and construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian abandons $2 billion expansion plan unveiled in 2014 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mainstream comedy was in a slump, but two ancillary scenes—the Alternative Comedy world and a new genre of predominant African American comedy—created some giants. Jon Stewart, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and the behind-the-scenes secrets of comedy’s ’90s glory days 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Responding to a question about playing an African American character who wasn’t defined by his race, Reddick began by giving the story of how he came to get the role. TCA 2012: Fringe—They Did It Their Way(s) 2012-07-24T12:33:59Z

And Roberts & Tilton produced and published "L.A. Object," a key book that explores the history of African American assemblage artists in Los Angeles. L.A.'s Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is out to upend the definition of a gallery 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Teaching African American literature in a Milan university, she understands the rules and relies on the fixed parameters of professional responsibilities. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Young people were also major forces pushing for comprehensive civil rights legislation, which was passed, leading to the greatest progress on equality, justice and empowerment for African Americans and other minorities in a century. Millennials will save us! 2013-02-16T19:00:00Z

Their research, a collaboration with students and nonprofit organizations, has evolved into what they call the African American Trail Project, a website that maps out more than 200 historic sites across the state. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Over nearly 40 years they amassed one of the largest and most renowned private collections of African American paintings in the country, in the process becoming two of America’s most important Black art patrons. Vivian Hewitt, Who Amassed a Major Collection of Black Art, Dies at 102 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

She was the first African American nominated for an Oscar; a clip of her poignant acceptance speech plays nearby. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

“The stories and music and dance that evolved here were just as important. As African Americans, we were going to bring our own energy.” ‘Homegrown’: At BAM, DanceAfrica Keeps It All in the Family 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

He sought to widen the horizons of his poorly educated African American students, but he was fired for not following the curriculum. Pat Conroy, best-selling author of ‘Great Santini’ and ‘Prince of Tides,’ dies at 70 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

She recalls the day she visited a middle school and a young African American girl asked her to sign a copy of one of her books. ‘We need diverse books,’ they said. And now a group’s dream is coming to fruition. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Fisher, one of the few black women with a regular role on a U.S. television series at the time, became the first African American actress to win an Emmy. Mike Connors, star of TV private eye series 'Mannix,' dead at 91 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

African American songs from this time period were often written in what amounted to code so as not to alarm whites, Meacham writes. Review | How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

A prober of silences, Sante writes about the tens of thousands of anonymous men, many of them immigrants and African Americans, who toiled on these projects, often living in hastily constructed settlements, leaving few traces. How New York City Got Its Fresh Water 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

“We are clearly in a period of acceleration in our conversations around African American history, the African American journey, race and racial justice — and the museum is in the middle of that,” Dr. Matthews said. The Head of Charleston’s New African American Museum on Curiosity, Courage and Storytelling 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

But she offered several reasons why the experience of Mormons differs significantly from that of African Americans, including, as she writes: Amen, and amen. Anti-Morman prejudice vs. racism 2012-07-29T14:00:00Z

How many African American men shot on camera by police? How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

It calls to mind the accusations of certain African American artists not being "black enough". What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z

Sept. 14 Carla Hayden is sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress, becoming the first African American and the first woman to hold the position. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

He also refused to vote for a Republican Party that he said took African Americans for granted. ‘Black Radical’ Remembers a Bold Life and Reclaims It for Our Current Moment 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

I think every African American actor somewhat looks up to Denzel. Ashton Sanders: ‘Black artists still have to work 10 times harder’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

“The history of African Americans, in not just this country, but this hemisphere, is loaded . . . with questions of enslavement, questions of disenfranchisement,” she said. Carla Hall is ‘the most visible black person in food.’ Now she wants to take soul food mainstream. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

A work by Kerry James Marshall sold in May for $21 million, the most ever paid for a work by a living African American artist. Auctions, protests and controversial patrons: the three big ways art and money clashed in 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Candace Owens first went viral with her Red Pill Black theory and website, where she attempts to convince fellow African Americans to vote for conservative candidates. Fox News pundit Candace Owens challenges ESPN’s Jemele Hill to a debate over racism 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

According to the 2015 American Community Survey, these neighborhoods are now predominantly African American. A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

During that time, the African American serviceman faced both physical and emotional distress from getting stuck in the neck by shrapnel and battling racism and discrimination from his own command, according to the university. Vietnam veteran recognized for his service 50 years later 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The many subjects Henry Taylor has painted over his decades-long career have included family members, celebrities and strangers, in a body of work that often examines the African American experience. At Museums and Galleries, a Spirit of Togetherness 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

When Ferguson took place in 2014, I was invited two weeks later to the only college in Ferguson, Mo. I went to a meeting with a group of African American men at the college. A former divorce lawyer became a peace activist. Was that the best — or worst — training? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

And not just every single African American kid, but any other kid — the content we're developing is as important for non-African Americans to learn as it is for African Americans. Former D.C. Public Schools chancellor: Black cultural education ‘could change the entire calculus’ for children 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

I have uncovered a tremendous amount of history about African Americans in Livingston County from descendants who still reside in Caledonia and the surrounding areas. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1981, and two years later received a master’s degree in African American studies from Yale University, writing a version of “Linden Hills” for her thesis. Gloria Naylor, whose novels gave voice to African American women, dies at 66 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Case in point: the disastrous primary elections in Wisconsin and Georgia this spring, in which voters waited upwards of five hours at drastically restricted poll locations, especially in predominantly African American neighborhoods. 'We are entitled to being heard': Stacey Abrams on the fight to vote 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Rhodes, once an aspiring teenage African American gymnast herself, wrote, “I imagine another little girl may see herself in Gabby Douglas and believe, now, that her dreams aren’t so crazy after all.” The Olympics’ delicate gender politics 2012-08-11T16:00:00Z

She wants us to see that the people who are in the category of felon, particularly drug offenders, are disproportionately of one race – African American. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

A key and consistent finding throughout our data analysis is that African American Millennials use social media more frequently than their White counterparts and for a wider variety of activities. Why the CBS digital team needs black reporters covering the 2020 election 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

In fact, they can’t envision what an entire museum of African American history will be like. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Quote: “We really don’t want to just focus on celebrity and great achievement and the big names. The story of African American music is very community-based.” Dwandalyn Reece 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Werthan is a Jewish woman living in Atlanta, Georgia in the middle part of the 20th Century when her son hires African American Colburn as her chauffeur because she can no longer drive. Vanessa Redgrave drives "Miss Daisy" onto Broadway 2010-06-29T22:06:00Z

“When you encounter the strip, you’re like, ‘I know this sister,’” said Rebecca Wanzo, the author of “The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging.” A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’ 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

A “black African American” suspect in a crowd of white people, he says, “stands out like a raisin in a bowl of buttered popcorn.” Review: Playing House; or, The Repeat Offenses of Backstrom 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Because the spontaneity of a diary brings greater risk to the writer, many more novels and memoirs by African American women have been published than full-length diaries. Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

A century of cinematic history that marginalized and ignored African Americans — a history Lee elegantly invokes in “BlacKkKlansman,” no less — seemed to play out again, in real time. Perspective | ‘Green Book’ may not have deserved best picture, but did it deserve all the hate? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The panel also includes one African American juror. Jury selected for Jackson doctor's trial 2011-09-24T00:38:11Z

Now, a new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

We have put a stamp on that sh*t, African Americans. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s, whites from the suburbs, like me, didn’t travel at night into the city, where the African Americans lived. Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

For his turn before Reagan, the actor decided to pay tribute to the pioneering African American entertainer Bert Williams — in blackface. Art, Reagan and blackface: Edgar Arceneaux examines controversial performance by Ben Vereen 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Like most African Americans, her ancestry was erased by the machinery of slavery. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her daughter then introduced Pericak-Vance and her husband to a young African American man, and they eventually became his legal guardian. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The vintage, open-cockpit biplane hangs from the ceiling of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A couple bought a wreck of a plane on eBay to fix up. Then, they learned its history. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The film was also popular with African American moviegoers and performed especially well in large cities including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta. 'No Good Deed': Five reasons for its surprising box-office success 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Another important site was the Bud Billiken parade, one of the largest African American parades in the country and one of the oldest, happening every summer since 1929. ‘It Taunts the Eye’: Footwork’s Fast Moves Loom Over Chicago 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank, was, like Bethune, a nationally known civil rights activist in her day. These national historic sites celebrate great women. Shouldn’t they have more visitors? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

TREND: Concert halls are seeing a surge in operatic and symphonic music celebrating notable African Americans. What's coming in 2018: Arts 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

“The Johnson Tweet was intended to — and did — mock, ridicule and protest discrimination against African Americans by society in general and by whites who equate property damage with human life,” the suit says. Black reporter sues paper over ban on her protest coverage 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

He didn’t give up when people said a separate museum for African Americans would lead other groups to seek their own. For Rep. John Lewis, African American Museum was a recurring dream 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Another new partner will be the California African American Museum. L.A. Phil centennial plans: Unprecedented commissions, new Gehry-designed home for YOLA 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Northwest African American Museum hosts a community gathering to celebrate King’s life, including viewing the second inauguration of President Obama on Monday. Many ways to honor Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend 2013-01-17T20:33:17Z

To find literary festival listings, check book lovers’ resources such as the African American Literature Book Club or Everfest.com. Book lover? Plan your trip around a literary festival. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

A compelling exhibition of the work of African American artist Bill Traylor at the Smithso●nian Museum of American Art touched on some of the same ideas in resolutely personal terms. Perspective | Best of museums 2018: It was a year to pay attention to new voices 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Johnson, a novelist, essayist and emeritus professor at the University of Washington, bristles when he speaks of movies where African Americans are portrayed as victims. ‘Emery Jones’: the adventures of a scientific whiz kid 2014-02-21T20:43:31Z

The challenge was taken up, and now commemorative benches are being set at places of historical significance to African Americans. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z

And it was in the African American fraternities where step dancing began. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Step Afrika! team up for ‘The Nutcracker’

One joke in "Ted 2" potentially offends women, African Americans, couples struggling with infertility, sufferers of blood disorders, people who make medical shelving and the Kardashians. 'Ted 2' is overstuffed and absurd but wickedly funny 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

When Representative Elijah E. Cummings died in October 2019 at age 68, he became the first African American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Painter of Elijah Cummings Portrait Finds It’s a Career-Changer 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Landry, a Louisiana private school whose videos of African American students collecting Ivy League college acceptances once went viral. ‘Accepted’ Review: Reaching for the Stars, Seeing Them Dissolve 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

For Manzano, that meant not only giving Alma playmates who are African American, South Asian and white but also creating friends and family members who are Hispanic in different ways. In ‘Alma’s Way,’ a Young Latina Thinks for Herself, Like Her Creator 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

Dr. Sorensen once worked there as a research historian specializing in African American food culture. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

But it is also a memorial to the resilience of African Americans, and the culture they created. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The African American quilt exhibit runs now through Nov. 7. Video: 'Shapes and Movements 1' for Bellevue Arts Museum 2012-08-10T16:29:14Z

Many of her designs, which incorporated Persian, colonial and modern motifs, are now part of the collection of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

James Bernard Cole’s “Precinct” is a quarter-mile of police barricade tape braided into rope, in response to the Baltimore police department’s treatment of African Americans. Review | In the galleries: Art 101, a sampling event for beginners 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

The most powerful African American in the nation until his death in 1915, Washington would have a profound impact on the development of black education. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The program became a landmark because of its depiction — almost nonexistent in the entertainment landscape of that era — of an upper-middle-class African American family. Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

That bumper sticker “connects him to stories of segregation and assertion of the African American male identity.” Chadwick Boseman jumps, sweats and splits into character as James Brown

It may be immoral for them not to support him, because he’s got African American employment to record highs, Hispanic employment to record highs. Jerry Falwell Jr. can’t imagine Trump ‘doing anything that’s not good for the country’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Sueko said that she’s already talked to a historian at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about consulting with Davis for his play about black Wall Street. Washington is in line for a huge shipment of political theater 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Now Patty has must start over at a new school, where there are few African American students, but she finds salvation in running track. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Stone says he regrets the Martin remarks and points to statements he’s made urging Republicans to do a better job of outreach to African Americans. Roger Stone, a master of dark political arts, is playing the Russia scandal for all it’s worth 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Stewart’s main angle was satire of media and politics; Noah has a history of mocking fat chicks and African Americans.  Trevor Noah gives Fox News a free pass: The new “Daily Show” could be great for Ailes and Hannity, bad for America 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Also aptly reconsidered is Horace Pippin, a forgotten self-taught painter and a soldier in the 369th Battalion, consisting of African Americans. How did American artists respond to the horror of WWI? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

We got nearly a third of the African American vote, when my party usually does not. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan: ‘At some point, there’s no longer going to be a Donald Trump Party’ 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

On the ground floor was an oversize photograph by the African American artist Hank Willis Thomas. Critic’s Notebook: On Day Two, a new establishment museum begins its work 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

In lush prose that felt determined to sprout off the page, the novel described a poor African American family struck by Hurricane Katrina. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Gene, who was 38 and in the process of divorcing, was African American. The Tadich Grill saga: Execs finally give their side of the story 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Her last solo museum show in Los Angeles was at the California African American Museum in 2011 and featured roughly two dozen recent works. For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past; the almost-90-year-old artist has too much future to think about 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

And Cosby — who once told Oprah Winfrey that she is spiritual but does not belong to an organized religion — has argued that Christian imagery devalues African Americans by primarily depicting God as a white man. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

“He’s a young African American male who said he’s admired my work, and that was an honor to hear,” Lewis said. Broadway Is Brimming With Black Playwrights. But for How Long? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

This thoroughly researched but flawed biography is yet more evidence that there needs to be a serious reckoning at publishing houses regarding who gets significant, career-sustaining deals to write about African American music. Review | A new biography depicts B.B. King as ‘the first guitar hero.’ But does it truly see him? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

SAT Opening celebration with curators of exhibit tracing the history of African Americans in flight from the 1920s to astronauts of the 21st century, 1 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-12T22:42:04Z

Its time frame — roughly 30 years between World War II and the mid-1970s — is narrow compared with that of the Mississippi history museum, or the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The video showed Ms. Cooper, who is not related to Mr. Cooper, making a 911 call and saying to him: “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.” A Birder Is Back in the Public Eye, Now on His Own Terms 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, said it was a "distinct honor" to acquire the photo album. A rare photo of Harriet Tubman, acquired by the Library of Congress, shows her as a younger woman 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, and its National Museum of the American Indian, in Manhattan and Washington, offer multimedia digital materials illuminating the country’s reckoning with racism. Digital Field Trips: Museum Adventures Abound for Kids 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Ide is a Japanese American who grew up in an African American section of South Central Los Angeles. Review | Joe Ide is one of the hottest mystery novelists at work. His new book shows why. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Both feature fearsome caricatures of African American matriarchs played by men in drag, but Perry at least seems to like women. What is the point of Martin Lawrence? 2011-02-11T21:03:00Z

Blake’s jazz songs and fast syncopation “altered the form” of the early American musical, Wolfe explained, as it introduced African American idioms to Broadway. George C. Wolfe: A theater man on a mission to do a forgotten show justice 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Jackson and comedian Chris Rock were on stations with primarily African American audiences urging voters to go to the polls Tuesday. Obama enlisting A-list to act as surrogates 2012-11-05T03:31:06Z

I give them credit for naming Dungey as the first African American to a post she surely earned, and where she can lead with moral force. Perspective | Canceling ‘Roseanne’ has everything to do with race and media in Trump-era America 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

He said that white people are the “real” victims of black crime and warned repeatedly that America is on the verge of “a race war” precipitated by African Americans. Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Then you ask how is "Black Panther" itself a springboard for new African American and African creatives? From "Black Panther" to "RRR," the new "Story of Film" honors innovation, influence of global cinema 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Her father, Clifford Alexander, went to Harvard and Yale Law, served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and was the first African American secretary of the Army. Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Together, they say, they view their mission not necessarily as serving food in traditional ways, but extending the traditions to show the adaptability of African American culinary techniques and flavors. The powerful culinary imprint that’s missing from the African American Museum 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Vera called to mind one of those African American matriarchs familiarly thought of as saints: a woman in her twilight years whose culinary expressiveness was like a gift she bestowed on the people she loved. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

All these attempts to untether the flag from its original associations were largely undone in 2015, when a mass shooting in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine African Americans dead. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

The fictional Jews in these Roth tales are every bit as bigoted toward African Americans as their white gentile counterparts. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who cemented the ensemble’s reputation as one of the country’s premier interpreters of African American spiritual music, died on Saturday in Nashville. Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Longtime Director, Dies at 70 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Founded in 1940, the South Side Community Art Center is the oldest African American art center in the United States. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

His work and Price’s are the first two of seven scheduled pieces by African American composers in this season’s main concert series. Meet the young composer whose piece for Seattle Symphony is among the first inspired by 2020’s impactful events 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

In other words, her identity as a performer was inseparable from her identity as an African American woman. Review: Simone Biopic Nina Is All Wrong, But Who's to Blame? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Inside the church, an African American man and three women are listening to a tinny iPhone rendition of Polly singing the phrase, “community of hope.” I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The Sudanese artist narrates the experiences that led him to wide acclaim as a painter challenging paradigms of African, Islamic and “Western” modernism, including encounters with Elijah Muhammad and the African American painter Hale Woodruff. Newly Published, From a Vermont Sanctuary to Chicago’s Spoken Word 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Scandal is the first network primetime drama to feature an African American female lead in close to 40 years, and possibly the first ever whose colour is entirely incidental. Kerry Washington: notes on a Scandal 2013-06-28T22:00:00Z

According to Juneteenth.com, the holiday "commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement." Longtime Texas tradition celebrating Miss Juneteenth brings holiday into focus 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

What supports helped you get where you are — you mention the tightknit African American community in North Omaha where you grew up? ‘America has never fully lived up to its ideals,’ says Biden adviser Symone Sanders 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

African American genealogy is especially challenging because many records of African Americans are listed by their first name without a surname or by the name of the enslaved individuals. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

But perhaps the most interesting recent example comes from T. Geronimo Johnson, an African American novelist who realized while writing “Welcome to Braggsville” that his black protagonist should be white. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

York was the first African American to cross the continent and reach the Pacific Ocean. Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

The British Invasion and the subsequent British Blues Boom owe a considerable, unpaid debt to their African American forebears, as Jones makes clear. Welcome to "The Stone Age," chronicling the Rolling Stones' epic career of rock, scandal and excess 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Her mixed-media assemblages, two of which will be shown in “1973,” draw upon her African American, Native American and Irish heritage, often morphing images of marginalized people into representations of power and revolution. Fifty Years Post Roe v. Wade, the Art of ‘1973’ Frames a Turbulent Era 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

The film is a “reminder that our history, African American history, is American history”, Grant said. Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, remembers seeing Sherald engage with young African American girls at a gallery talk. Review | The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Because, he said, “for African Americans in this country the gilded period’s a little bit different.” Much Gilt, Little Guilt 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

The most notorious of these was the Fugitive Slave Law, which deputized slave catchers in free states to bring African Americans back to bondage. Looking for a Gold-Rush Town Named Chinese Camp 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Here, on a campus where slaves once labored and African American students were not welcomed until almost a century after emancipation, the right to speak freely is not an abstract concept. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Obama’s election was historic, she said, but the museum will be here forever, serving as a sacred place, a balm for the wounds of African Americans and a “house of healing” for the entire country. 300 volunteers for African American museum: ‘We’re ready.’ 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Much of today’s staff is composed of African American, Latino or Filipino employees, and many are older, making them among the most vulnerable populations in the pandemic. Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

One exhibit explores how, for African Americans, thousands of whom fled to British lines, “sometimes freedom wore a red coat.” The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

"Or is it African American?" she continues nervously. "The Sex Lives of College Girls": Here's to the girl who tries our patience, but in the best way 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

The multicolored strips have been embraced by many African Americans as an expression of their culture, regardless of whether their roots lie in Ghana or elsewhere on the African continent. Perspective | Congress’s kente cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Senate than the inevitable memes ensued: After statistics revealed that 98 percent of African American women voted for Jones in Tuesday’s special election, the #BlackWomen hashtag began trending on social media. Perspective | A ‘Girls Trip’ snub and the troubling black woman-savior trope that bedevils politics and Hollywood 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

In 1957, Gordon Parks accepted an assignment from Life magazine, where he had been a staff photographer for a decade — the first African American to hold such a position — to explore crime in America. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her inspiring rise from a childhood in the segregated South to become the first African American woman to hold the post of U.S. secretary of state. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

"A lot of people who had been cynical about the industry said, ‘Well, that's the last time they're going to try a network drama with African American leads.'" With 'Empire,' diversity becomes the watchword on television 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Some past projects that earned Gold Awards included raising awareness about child abuse in Puerto Rico and raising awareness of historically segregated schools that shaped the education of many African American students in the south. Girl Scouts v Boy Scouts – what's the difference? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

You can feel the earth shifting — in the theater, at least — for a new generation of African American playwrights. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

He implied that they were insincere with respect to protecting the civil rights of African Americans. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

In her moving speech, Rhimes jokingly evoked Beyonce to explain why she couldn’t be getting an award simply because she is both a woman and African American. Watch Shonda Rhimes' Amazing Speech on the 'Glass Ceiling' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

In one gallery, stories of farming communities in Indiana and vacation spots on Martha’s Vineyard are highlighted as part of a larger discussion about the importance and diversity of regions to the African American experience. A thorny question for African American museum: Whose story do we tell? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Two of the shows address stereotyping of young African American men. In the galleries: Reclaiming cultural identity 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Marshall did not allow African American players on his team until 1962. Perspective | Kenny Washington’s time has come. NFL needs to recognize the man who broke the color barrier. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

At the boat’s helm stands George Washington Carver, the scientist known for his uses of the peanut, and one of the few African Americans mentioned by name in primary-school history books. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The affront to Native Americans and the treatment of this country’s African American population weren’t just about marginalization in everyday life but also about the erasure of their dignity in our historical consciousness. Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Jack Whitten, the African American painter and sculptor who died Saturday at 78, was once given a tour of St. Catherine’s Monastery, at Mount Sinai. Perspective | Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s a lovely miniature, capturing its subject – a 13-year-old African American girl who happens to be a prodigious Little League baseballer – with unsentimental affection. Streaming: curate your own Spike Lee season 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ever since 2008, a group of residents here has been searching for a place to build a memorial and reinter the remains of African Americans whose nearby burial ground was taken over by municipal projects. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

“I remember struggling with, ‘Should we collect that?’ ” said Bunch, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

"We got a long way to go for us as a society and for us as African Americans until we feel equal in America." Patriots fan pours beer on Tyreek Hill: Boozy, toxic sports culture needs a serious cleanse 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

It came as no surprise to me or other nonprofit leaders, then, when African Americans initially ranked among the most resistant groups to take COVID-19 vaccines. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

“For me to be an African American gay man on the top of the charts next to Beyoncé’s album is a huge accomplishment,” he says. What happens when your whimsical ‘Wizard of Oz’ obsession actually pays off? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But the in the pre-civil rights era, African Americans occupied a segregated wing and used separate facilities. How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Aretha Franklin lay in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, in Detroit, a setting that befitted the transition occurring: the passage of the living into the pantheon of history. The Sorrow and Vitality of Aretha Franklin’s Funeral 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

The museum is also waiting for some artworks to complete its program, which has a permanent collection of nearly 300 works of art and historical artifacts telling the story of African Americans. International African American Museum Delays Opening 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

And then they made sure the showrunners, the heads of departments, the writers, like everyone lives in the African American community in some way. Will Smith's new "Bel-Air" Aunt Viv on reboot fears: "I really didn't want to let the culture down" 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

No doubt that some people voted for Obama primarily because he was an African American, and that many did not. 2016: Obama's America: Dinesh D'Souza Sees an End-of-Times 2012-08-24T19:27:44Z

After his death was announced, it was not just African American readers who stepped forward to celebrate his contribution to what literature for young people can be. Walter Dean Myers was a pioneer of diversity in young adult books 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

They’re coming from diehard customers of Fashion Fair cosmetics, a brand founded in 1973 to cater to African American women at a time when major makeup companies essentially ignored them. What happened to Fashion Fair? Why the black cosmetics brand is so hard to find. 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

The National Museum of African American Music said Jackson will be included in an exhibit when the museum opens in downtown Nashville early 2020. Music museums keeping Michael Jackson exhibits on display 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Kent, also a black Baltimorean, uses Lack’s case to exemplify the history of medical testing involving African Americans without their consent. Review | In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The rest stop was one of the first in the South to welcome African Americans as segregation began to fall. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Today, 85 percent of American orchestra players are Caucasian; 8 percent are Asian, a growing number, and less than 2 percent are African American. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Of course all African Americans aren’t gung-ho to spend every dime they ever had, and other races and ethnic groups like to spend money as well. Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

I'm working on a book about African American farming, or I should say, about my relationship to the land. Poet Ross Gay is on a roll: He talks gardens and gratitude 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The university’s Office of Institutional Research found in 2013 that alumni parentage bestows an admissions boost equivalent to that for African Americans, and larger than those for Hispanics, Native Americans, and low-income students. The fight against affirmative action at Harvard could threaten rich whites 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

Wallace played smaller roles in Rochester and Milwaukee “Carols,” and he’s now driving the large-cast Ford’s show that includes big special effects for the ghosts; he’s the first African American to play Scrooge at Ford’s. Scrooge summit 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

President Lyndon B. Johnson went as far as making alternate plans to find another qualified African American lawyer should Marshall's nomination crash. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

"And when I say that the authors provide liberation, they free us all . . . from the narrow definition of what African American cooking is supposed to be." What's in a name? Shedding racist images and branding is just the start of breaking the Jemima Code 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

After Johnson aced the audition and the interviews, station managers found themselves elevating an African American man to one of the more high-profile platforms in public radio. Meet Joshua Johnson, Diane Rehm’s successor — and a bold move for WAMU 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

And African American organizations represent 28 percent of institutional support for the museum, including black sororities, fraternities and civic groups. African American museum’s fundraising touches deep history among donors 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Cosby, on the other hand, may still be feeling blowback from chiding African American youths who wore “pants down around the crack” and poor blacks who steal “poundcake.” Three years and 60 accusers later, Bill Cosby’s trial begins. But only one woman will decide his fate. 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

He tells his proud family that beleaguered African Americans he met are in greater peril than German Jews. Review: 'Beams are Creaking' offers night of intrigue, thrills ? and courage 2011-04-08T22:49:05Z

His focus on African Americans in his community affirms that value, pithily summed up by the meme Black Lives Matter. Andre D. Wagner's stirring photographs tell it like it is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Three of the 12 essays focus on important African Americans whose careers spanned the century: performer Bert Williams, writer James Baldwin and musical legend Nina Simone. ‘American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building’ 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Blackface is still blackface even when portraying a light-skinned African American. Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson shows race problems before Oscars row 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Wilson’s project was to provide a forum for deeper reflection on African American history, culture and identity. Resilience and dignity are the rich, bluesy music of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Henry made the connection with African Americans having to sit at the “back of the bus”, which in the UK was where conductors stood. Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

And then there were those who knew me, but whose imagination for my capacity stopped with my race as an African American. Stacey Abrams: Being a black woman in politics isn’t ‘some fatal diagnosis’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

More than 50 years after you and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party, the country is still confronting police brutality disproportionately affecting African Americans. Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers: ‘You cannot fight racism with racism. You have to fight it with solidarity.’ 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

The collective West and Central African cultural past and slavery are key ingredients that spice and flavor the African American table like no other. The roots of black Thanksgiving: Why mac and cheese and potato salad are so popular 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

She was also socially engaged, joining the Congress of Racial Equality and participating in fireside chats with other activists fighting for the rights of African Americans. It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

It is here that “Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault, Trump’s new director of African American outreach, gives interviews extolling the new Trump golf course in Scotland. This is what it feels like at the Republican convention in Cleveland 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

We talked recently to Hooks about his life on the stage, roles for African American actors and the state of black theater companies today. Longtime African American actor Robert Hooks on the state of black theater, then and now 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

In 1956, Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks traveled to southern Alabama to document the life of an extended African American family living under the oppression of Jim Crow laws. In the galleries: Gordon Park’s photos from the Jim Crow-era South 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

And for so much of the African American community, and other communities in the United States, that's not what the police represent. "Sound of the Police" filmmaker tells his son, "No good can come from a police encounter" 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z

The play, like so many of Wilson’s dramas, takes place in a hardscrabble African American enclave of Pittsburgh, among people holding on by their fingertips. Review | August Wilson at his best is a gift. Arena Stage is giving you one. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

The shackles are among the thousands of items that will be on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture when it opens Sept. 24. African American museum designed with emotions in mind 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

In 1921, several years before Locke’s influential treatise, Hale Woodruff, one of the greatest 20th-century African American artists, laid his hands on a book about African sculpture published in Germany. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Even though this is a movie starring four African American women, it's not a black movie in the sense that it's not only for black women or black people. A Minute With: Jada Pinkett Smith talks 'black girl magic' 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

She returned to the U.S. to help Malcolm X set up an African American university, but he was assassinated. Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights advocate, dies at 86 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

There is, of course, important scholarship that traces the legacy of chattel slavery on the material and emotional lives of contemporary African Americans. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, ‘Barracoon,’ finally sees the light of day 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

This reading list features African American writing for children published before Brown v. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

The art was fueled by mass migration of African Americans from the South to the North. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Chase’s award is welcome in a city that is majority African American, a fact still more reflected in the food than in the media adoring it. New Orleans’ post-Katrina revival brings new cuisines – but Creole still city's soul 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s a huge deal,” Caldwell says, adding that part of his mission will be “to demonstrate that African Americans are not monolithic.” Theater Alliance names Raymond Caldwell as new artistic director 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The opening and closing moments provide statistics about the frequency of African American men killed by gunfire and the percentage of homes where there are guns and children under ten. What is it like to shoot someone? "Behind the Bullet" explores "moral injury" of gun violence 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Kehinde Wiley, known for his large-scale depictions of African American men in poses and trappings inspired by famous paintings from art history, was painting the president. Review | A peek into the process behind the popular Obama portraits 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

She lives in Absecon, a small suburb outside of Atlantic City, where she and her husband Buff raise three adopted African American children and run Grace Falls, a Southern Baptist church. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

African American and Latino populations bore a disproportionate load under a draft system that was patently unfair. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

She’s also director of African Americans for Humanism, committed to fostering humanism in the African American community and to increasing the representation of African Americans and other people of color in the secular community. 8 atheist leaders actually worth listening to 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The rioters targeted African Americans and the businesses that catered to them, killing many and even setting fire to an orphanage. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

As African Americans, if you’re not in our shoes, you don’t get to have that experience. Larry Wilmore on his WHCA dinner speech: ‘I know I lost the room early’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

This expansive volume, in five parts, revises existing perceptions of Hurston, like her well-known opposition to school integration and Richard Wright’s objection to her use of African American vernacular. ‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes’: Zora Neale Hurston, in Her Own Words 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Throughout the movie, the young actresses playing the Williams sisters display a variety of cornrow and braided looks, common styles for African American girls. In Films and on TV, a New Openness to Natural Black Hairstyles 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

She added, “I actually don’t like the term ‘African American.’ Rachel Dolezal is not Caitlyn Jenner: Race and gender are not the same 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The success of the African American Museum, the newest Smithsonian, was another important factor. Smithsonian’s new secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, faces political and financial challenges 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Thousands of African Americans lost their lives to white terrorism since the Civil War, and this sign remembers only seven of them. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Then the sound of a guitar, and images of a highway overpass, a train conductor’s view, a barber shaving an African American man. I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Everybody will get to hear how there’s a shared story we, as African Americans, all have. An interview with Oprah Winfrey: ‘I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Last year on the Mall, the Smithsonian opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the 19th museum or gallery in the Smithsonian portfolio. Smithsonian Hears Call for Women’s Museum 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

A few leading candidates like Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are proposing plans to bridge the wealth gap created by slavery, between white and African American households through policy. Ava DuVernay isn't waiting on reparations or shiny campaign promises 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mack is also African American, and the two will effectively shatter the all-white stereotype of “Swan Lake,” the most traditional of ballets. Misty Copeland to make ‘Swan Lake’ debut with Washington Ballet

The departure of Hall — the first African American woman to co-host “Today” — revived those concerns. NBC News replaces executive who oversaw scandals involving Trump, Williams 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Published in 1962, Keats’s picture book was the first time I’d seen an African American in the center of his own story. How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Gaines, who is African American, is skeptical about the existence of more than “a minority of people who would complain” about Guston’s paintings. Perspective | The Philip Guston controversy is turning artists against the National Gallery 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

I’m aware that a lot of African Americans are lauding Graham, too. The hideous white hypocrisy behind the Baltimore “Hero Mom” hype: How clueless media applause excuses police brutality 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

I really hope for African American people who come, they will see the same thing: You can be the blossom for all the seeds that were planted. An interview with Oprah Winfrey: ‘I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

His suit also asserts that some of the “tension” between PBS and Smiley, who is African American, was racial in nature. Tavis Smiley sues PBS for firing him over sexual misconduct allegations 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

"The original dress code didn't explicitly say that African Americans or other minorities aren't welcome at the eatery," the editorial board wrote. It's time to admit restaurants have a racist dress code problem 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Time and time again, we are seeing African Americans be gunned down by police officers. Justice for Botham Jean: Don’t let Amber Guyger hide behind “I feared for my life” 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In general, African American households are more likely to experience food insecurity, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Food bank braces for surge in demand after Trump strips 700,000 of benefits 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Almost a century after the civil war, African Americans were being lynched, denied basic human rights, not allowed to register for the vote in most southern states, and discriminated against in the north. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z

The noose recalled this country’s devastating history of lynching, of racial terror and the extrajudicial murder of African Americans. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Moore takes inspiration from watching what happened last year at ABT when Misty Copeland became the company's first African American principal dancer. A ballerina of the boardroom and activist for the arts -- say hello to the new Music Center CEO 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Throughout the early years of his labors, King believed in America’s ability to change; believed that the righteous, self-sacrifice of African Americans would inspire white Americans to repent for the nation’s racist ways. Finding hope on Martin Luther King Day, even in these times of struggle 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

In 1991, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust made history as the first film by an African American woman to receive a wide theatrical release in the United States. Film-maker Julie Dash: ‘#OscarsSoWhite worked!’ 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

Breaking U.S. television's racial barrier with "I Spy" as the first African American to costar on a television series in the 1960s, he won three consecutive Emmys. Bill Cosby muses on life in latest book 2012-01-12T16:42:47Z

Eighteen months after its triumphant opening, the popular National Museum of African American History and Culture is testing a new admission policy: No timed passes will be required for four Wednesdays next month. No pass needed to African American Museum on four Wednesdays in April 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Hits like Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" or OWN's "The Haves and the Have Nots" have shown there is an appetite for African American melodrama — be it real or scripted. With 'Empire,' diversity becomes the watchword on television 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Honestly, for a lot of African American writers, we don’t get the exposure, in different chain stores for example. "Queen of Erotica" Zane On How Fifty Shades Affects the Sexy-Book Scene 2012-08-01T14:33:06Z

Mayhew, who has mixed African American and Native American ancestry, has a stocky frame, a salt and pepper goatee and heavily lidded eyes; his speech is punctuated by a compulsive chuckle. At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

A Raisin in the Sun Kentwood Players stages Lorraine Hansberry's classic drama about three generations of an African American family on Chicago's South Side. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 3-10: 'Act 3,' 'The Madwoman in the Volvo' and more 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

"I know Ken was horrified to have a Confederate ancestor, and I go, 'Aw, man, it's OK,'" said Gates, whose 2013 historical series "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" recently won an Emmy. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

She then shared a contrasting story of an African American teen she spotted “hustling like nobody’s business” in a Southside Works restaurant. How not to write about race: TV anchor fired after stunningly insensitive post about “young black men” with “multiple siblings from multiple fathers” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a story that can’t be told without Jones, a Washington native who created a welcome place for African Americans who wanted to dive. The very personal mission of the founder of the first diving club for African Americans 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

In Columbia, S.C., last week, some voters marveled at her understanding of African American history and her ability to speak eloquently to racism as the wound that will not heal. Perspective | Marianne Williamson won’t make you feel better about America, but you’ll feel better about yourself 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

When Misty did her first 'Swan Lake,' half of the audience was African American. A ballerina of the boardroom and activist for the arts -- say hello to the new Music Center CEO 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Museum organizers aim to bring fresh awareness to efforts made against racial segregation and restricted voting rights for African Americans by showing their connections to the contemporary human rights movement. New Atlanta museum links human rights struggles of past and present 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

It will take years for her to fix how she will be viewed by the African American community. N-word controversy: Is Paula Deen done for? 2013-06-25T20:19:18Z

The museum has been transformed by an ambitious exhibition about the global migrant crisis and by an absorbing account of the influence of modernism on African American artists. At 100, the Phillips Collection doesn’t seem to have aged 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Pulitzer board said Monday the album is a “virtuosic song collection” and said it captures “the modern African American life.” Commercial and critical darling Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

How We Lost D.C.” was organized by a Delusions of Grandeur, a collective of six local African American artists. In the galleries: Heading home 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Variety magazine found that despite very strong box office performances by movies with African American leads in August and September, analysts consistently underestimate debut weekend box office performances. Lack of diversity in film industry costs Hollywood big money, report finds 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Craig Laurance Gidney’s “A Spectral Hue” also mixes art and a haunting, this time at an African American artists’ colony, and “Experimental Film,” by Gemma Files, deals with a mysterious, possibly cursed movie. Perspective | Beyond ‘The Shining’: Let’s talk about our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

I think me being African American at this opportune time has helped me significantly because . ‘No path is easy’: Black opera singers detail struggles 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

You don’t, after all, become one of the world’s biggest celebrities when you’re an African American woman born in abject poverty without being pretty wised up. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Another piece lists tired, absurd and yet not entirely banished slurs against African Americans. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

“Students today are savvy organizers,” said Biondi, chairman of the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. At Georgetown, hopes for a continuing conversation about diversity

Although the most violent chapter in the state’s post-Civil War history was over, it would live on in Wilmington’s African American community as a reminder of the worst impulses of nationalism and white supremacy. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

"Sunset's" Burnes is an African American engineering grad who left the U.S. in the early 1970s seeking a better life; she found a war zone. 'Sunset': An engaging game about war's toll on a housekeeper 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

There was an opportunity to advance interests by changing business models to include African American athletes. Olympics activist: ‘Athletes have always been in the forefront saying: We, the people, are better than this’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

"The Butler," which also topped movie charts a week ago, is inspired by the real-life story of an African American man who served as a White House butler for eight U.S. presidents. 'The Butler' works its way to second box office win 2013-08-25T18:35:57Z

But taken together, they reveal a full range of aesthetic and racial possibilities that exist for their African American characters once the white gaze is diminished or fully removed. What Three Broadway Shows Tell Us About Racial Progress 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

With this stable but unfulfilling career to support him, he went on to write the stories and novels that would make him the best-known African American writer of his time. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

This spring, I ended the African American literature course I teach with Toni Morrison's "Beloved." On being Black in Kentucky and Charles Booker's historic run for Senate 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

They buttress his main point: that the underground railroad, instrument and symbol of enslaved African Americans' determination to achieve freedom, was a major factor in the sectional polarization that led to the Civil War. 'Gateway to Freedom' reveals underground railroad history 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Fox is 55 and has played an influential part in shaping on-screen images of African American life. Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Each of the eight units is named for an African American writer or a literary genre. Want to get away but not really away? 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

It asked the university to replace the paintings with work that would “bring forth representation of the African American community in a nonpolitical and uncontroversial way.” A Painting of George Floyd Roils Catholic University 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

The permanent barring of felons, which disenfranchised African Americans targeted by draconian penal codes for everyday behavior, such as loitering in a street. 'We are entitled to being heard': Stacey Abrams on the fight to vote 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

An exhibit about African-Americans in sports, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Yet, it turns out that African Americans indeed have a story of migration in this country. Isabel Wilkerson on Black America's Immigration Story 2010-10-02T06:20:00Z

“I feel that our African American leaders could have been more aggressive in informing us or appealing to the historically black colleges and universities for funding,” he says. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

One of Alexie’s inspirations was “The Snowy Day,” a picture book by Ezra Jack Keats that broke new ground in 1962 by focusing on an African American child. With ‘Thunder Boy Jr.,’ Sherman Alexie hopes to help correct a problem 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

As if to underscore its role as a gathering place for African American cultural leaders, the museum has already rolled out a slate of public events. An extra patina of pride on African American Museum’s second day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

After a scolding, an African American child might refrain from speaking in vernacular English at school. ‘What’s up with that white voice?’: The tricky art of linguistic code-switching 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Then, the first pre-taped segment, Kids Talk Politics, which featured kids saying cutely funny stuff about Trump, until the last girl, who was African American, went off. Saturday Night Live: Dave Chappelle back to see in the Trump era 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

A week and a half later, Khomeini ordered the release of female and African American hostages, leaving 53. The 444-day Iran hostage crisis began 37 years ago 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

On Saturday, their vision becomes a reality with the opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. The Smithsonian’s African-American Museum: A Guide to the Opening 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

There was no specific rule against Black players, but the owners enforced a so-called “gentlemen’s agreement” against African Americans. Perspective | Negro Leagues get long-due respect as part of MLB 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Come fall, Washington, with its mall of museums, will add the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, a dozen years in the planning. There’s a museum for everything. Even Civil War battles — depicted by cats. 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

You have a history of taking popular, talented, African American men and looking critically at them, but there’s not a lot of criticism in this book. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The purchase was announced in a news release from the Library of Congress and the African American History and Culture museum, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. A rare photo of Harriet Tubman, acquired by the Library of Congress, shows her as a younger woman 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Late this past August, however, the Bourbon House and Lounge officially became one of the most despicable restaurants in the country when it denied African Americans access to a public event held at the site. Most racist restaurant in America? 2012-12-22T16:00:00Z

The story of enslaved Black people rising up and flying home to Africa is a hallmark of African American folklore. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Although wary about taking Charles's case, their hand is forced when their junior associate Susan, who is African American, makes two elementary legal errors. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z

Many of the stores — Peoples Drug, a Chinese carryout, a wig shop and a record store — are gone from the once predominantly working-class African American neighborhood. 32 years after a horrific murder, one man wants justice. Another just wants an ending. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

In this Northern city, African Americans are treated more equally. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘How High the Moon’ 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

African American history class removed the names of several Black authors that Florida officials called “problematic.” ‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Even so, as we watch attempts to codify the erasure of trans people and the history of African Americans, we're already at the precipice of reverting to a history long sworn would go unrepeated. Thank you to that white man down in Florida: Lessons learned from reading a banned book 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

“One of the things that a lot of institutions say is, ‘We don’t know the African American artists, we don’t know the brown curators, we don’t know who they are.’ With Armory Show, the World Is Catching Up to Carrie Mae Weems 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

"The academy sets the standard for what is considered art," said Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, in an interview Friday. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites 322 to join in diversity effort 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

As you point out, when famous women come forward and say "Me too," it's taken much more seriously than when it's a large group of anonymous, mostly African American women saying it. Why bringing Bill Cosby to justice took so long: "I reported all of this in 2005 and nobody cared" 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Some critics, in terms crude and offensive, saw the slouch as a racial marker differentiating the white woman from the African American. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

Yet this show of portraiture at the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center isn’t packed with familiar faces. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

His death was announced by the African American Dance Ensemble, which he founded in Durham in the early 1980s and directed until 2015. Chuck Davis, Who Brought African Dance Traditions to America, Dies at 80 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

With just 10 works by eight artists, the small storefront museum managed to relate a powerful story on the theme of violence against African Americans, both flagrant and subtle. The top 10 art museum exhibitions of 2016, plus the worst trend of the year 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The Langston Hughes Project A celebration of the African American poet includes music, spoken word, etc. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 1-8: 'Rent' and more 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Bobby 'Blue' Bland's core audience was African American, mature and predominantly female. Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T17:00:00Z

Up popped an advertisement that appeared in The Pennsylvania Journal on May 15, 1782, announcing: “Two Sermons, written by the African American; one on the Capture of Lord Cornwallis, to be SOLD.” Use of ‘African-American’ Dates to Nation’s Early Days 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Yet while researchers have put forward these health, lifestyle and socioeconomic factors, there are also signs that genetic differences could explain some of the disparity between African Americans and whites. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Viola Davis won best supporting actress for Fences, the first time African Americans have simultaneously bagged categories. Moonlight wins Oscar for best picture … two minutes after La La Land 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Under a campaign of white supremacy masked as civic duty, whites took to the streets to put down an unarmed African American citizenry that was making advances in business, education, and home ownership. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Around the Horn: On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson suited up for the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era. The Top 10 Baseball Films of All Time 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The initiative encouraged African Americans to visit and invest in the country. Perspective | Congress’s kente cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

To a generation of African American girls, Uhura represented hope for the future. We lived long and prospered! How Star Trek saved fans' lives 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

When Viola Davis went onstage Sunday during the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards to accept her award for female actor in a drama series, the 49-year-old African American actress couldn't hide the emotion. SAG Awards 2015: Viola Davis on diversity: 'We want to see ourselves' 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The African American Film Critics Association announced the recipients of the second annual event on Wednesday. Viola Davis, LeBron James among honorees at AAFCA TV Honors 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

One of the realities that Get Out implicitly references is the scenario in which Trayvon Martin , a 17-year-old unarmed African American student, was shot dead five years ago in a Florida suburb while walking home. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

If that was an African American event, the jails would probably be filled up. Aldermen: Decriminalize small amounts of pot 2011-10-27T18:11:00Z

This show is intended to call attention to the heightened threat of prostate cancer to African American men, who are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with the illness as White men. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Her artful invocation of that ghost remains incomparable but also widely relevant to the history of African Americans in this country. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

“My whole thing is representing a point of view that sometimes doesn’t get represented,” said Giddens, who has spent nearly a decade with the Chocolate Drops highlighting often-obscure African American folk, blues and pop songs. Rhiannon Giddens steps out with 'Tomorrow Is My Turn' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Enthusiasm among African American voters is far lower for Clinton than it was for Obama four years ago. How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Twitty’s embrace of all the various parts of himself — African, African American, European, black, white, gay, Jewish — sometimes raises hackles, as does his habit of speaking his mind. His Paula Deen takedown went viral. But this food scholar isn’t done yet. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

He is the teaching artist-in-residence at the museum in conjunction with the “African American Art in the 20th Century” exhibition, which includes 43 works by some of the country’s most famous Black artists. ‘Fighting for Change’: Life as a Black Artist 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Next month, as he prepares to end his tenure as the country’s first black president, he will see the opening of the only national museum devoted to the African American story. Demand for African American museum is so high that weekend tickets have disappeared 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Kidney Health Fest for African American Families offers free health screenings, health information and entertainment, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. One healthful thing we love 2013-06-12T23:08:30Z

The National Museum of African American History and Culture site has a thorough form that covers items’ significance, dimensions, condition and materials. This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the American Ballet Theatre soloist was promoted to principal dancer; she is the New York company's first African American woman to hold that title. Ballerina Misty Copeland dances home to San Pedro 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Did he see himself 20 years earlier, the young police recruit in 1947, one of only five African Americans in his police academy class. When the 1967 Detroit riot came home 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

As if this natural disaster were not tragedy enough, political decisions to pre-emptively blow up levees, which disproportionately affected African Americans, exacerbated the damage. An artful, disquieting look at ‘The Great Flood’ 2014-03-20T21:28:14Z

They have more African American insurrections on plantations than we were taught about. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

The show ultimately ran for nine seasons and 147 episodes total, an impressive run that contributed to ending the drought of African American TV comedies at the time. ‘The Game’ is over and everybody won: How BET’s comedy helped make history 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

He spent the 1960s organizing ambitious shows devoted to African American art. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

But the portrait remained of a strong and formidable leader, said Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Mosley’s densely populated novel is full of characters like Frost, many of them African American, who have struggled to rise above unlucky beginnings. Review | Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Think of the white police officer who cried in court when she spoke of killing an African American man in his home, and the hug she later received from the African American judge. Why do we cry – and what can we learn from our tears? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Between 1830 and 1870, an unknown number of African Americans were laid to rest on a property that was then on the outskirts of Newburgh. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Glaude, an African American studies professor at Princeton, didn’t believe white America would ever elect “such a person” as Trump president. New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

It also shifts the focus away from the cause of the protests themselves: The use of deadly force by police against African Americans, and racial inequities in general. ‘Race and Violence in our Cities’? A topic for the first presidential debate draws criticism. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

In the 1930s, African Americans started migrating from southern US to the east side of the city. A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. used his eulogy to hold forth on African American parenting and “black-on-black crime.” Aretha Franklin’s praise-filled, song-filled funeral was one for the ages 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Tableaus and galleries, too, clarify that “liberty” didn’t mean the same thing for everyone — including enslaved African Americans, Native Americans and other marginalized people. The Museum of the American Revolution Receives $50 Million 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

That includes going back to Crispus Attucks, an African American killed in the Boston Massacre, and the first American of any race to die in the American Revolution. What makes an American a patriot? Spike Lee has some answers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The dancers are barefoot, crossing Irish dance with body percussion like that of African American stepping. Trinity Irish Dance Company Review: Those Flashing, Percussive Feet 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The panelists discussed their books, all of which chronicle elements of social justice for African Americans. Festival of Books: Authors frame the issue of being black in America 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Marion Palfi’s sensitive, exquisitely shaded 1949 photograph of the “Wife of a Lynching Victim” shows the African American woman, her face simultaneously stunned and wary, seated in what appears to be a bland office. Heinous history as potent muse in Underground Museum's 'Non-fiction' 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

So it raised some questions: When did African American children begin attending Flint Hill, and what was their experience? Flint Hill fourth-graders studying history find the school’s first black student 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Both were also dark-skinned African Americans and talked openly about how that deepened the stigma they felt. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Witness the soaring success of the “Fast and Furious” franchise, whose organic, unforced multiculturalism has resulted in a global phenomenon with an audience that’s co-equal parts Caucasian, African American, Hispanic and Asian. #OscarsSoWhite? It’s the audiences, not just the industry. 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The joy in the room, a beacon for African Americans in particular, is as palpable as the kick in the gin-driven “Weston’s Guitar.” Mulebone review: With a new chef’s help, Andy Shallal steps up his game 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The presentation at East West Players’ theater in downtown L.A. is a repeat of a notable 1999 collaboration between the Asian American theater organization and an African American one, the Robey Theatre Company. In 'Yohen,' Danny Glover is like a bull in a pottery studio 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z