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Silenced No More

Silenced No More

Stanford professor, Joel Cabrita, surfaces the suppressed story of South African writer, Regina Twala. From The Guardian / Twala had been a writer, intellectual and anti-colonial political activist of the 1950s and 60s. She was born in South Africa, but after her arrest in 1952 for participating in the non-violent resistance

Find "Good" Art

Find "Good" Art

Founded by Phillip Michael Collins, Good Black Art is a collector support network dedicated to breaking down the barriers to art collection. | From Good Black Art / Phillip’s practice as an art collector developed from his position as a self-proclaimed outsider. In his struggle with the exclusionary nature of systemic

Reparations How?

Reparations How?

Event: February 2, 2023 | The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School will discuss. | From the Harvard Kennedy School / Join the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics for a discussion on the legacy of

Remember Nubia

From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan exhibit runs at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles until April 3, 2023. | From the Getty Villa / "For nearly 3,000 years a series of kingdoms flourished in ancient Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan)

Forever Grateful

Forever Grateful

Tuskegee Airman, Harold H. Brown, has passed. Thank you, brother. Rest in Peace and Power. | From Sam Roberts via the New York Times / Harold H. Brown, who as a teenager overcame racial prejudice in the American South to become an Army Air Corps fighter pilot during World War II — a

What Have We Here?

What Have We Here?

Archeologists find Hekashepes, whose mummified remains might be the oldest ever. | From CBS News / Egyptian archaeologists who have spent years meticulously excavating a site amid the ancient ruins of Saqqara, near Cairo, announced a number of major discoveries on Thursday dating to the fifth and sixth dynasties of Egypt'

Catch the Wave

Playing at the upcoming Pan-African Film Festival and Santa Barbara Film Festival, Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture reclaims the 1,000-year-old tradition of Black surfing. | From the Wade in the Water Project / Created by David Mesfin, an award-winning creative director and multidisciplinary designer,

Heritage Ice Cream

Pan-African Food Festival

Heritage Ice Cream

South African ice cream artist, Tapiwa Guzha, is putting culture on ice. | From Tapi Tapi / "Food is often a source of othering and has been used as a way to corrupt a people's sense of identity and self worth. Our paramount mission is to heal and nurture

Many Threads

Through her exhibitions, learning academy, and National African American Quilt Convention, Marla Jackson is stitching quite a legacy. | From Marla Quilts / "Marla Quilts, Inc provides an impetus for community members of all ages to continue developing artistic skills, enhance individual and communal expression through visual literacy, and further intellectual

A New Conversacion.

A New Conversacion.

Event: February 22, 2023 | The afrolatin@ forum centers Blackness within Latinidad and focuses on Latin@s of African descent in the United States to provide a bridge that expands our understanding of the African Diaspora. We support the struggle for racial and social justice through dialogue and action by engaging

Being Blunt

Event: January 27, 2023 | From Harvard Book Store / Harvard Book Store welcomes KRISTIN HASS—Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life—for a discussion of her new book Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural

The Conference

Event: February 18-19, 2023 | From the Pulitzer Center / Taking place on February 18 and 19, the second 1619 Education Conference will offer participants the opportunity to learn from The 1619 Project Education Network members about the units they created and implemented as part of the program, the strategies and resources

Read This.

Cornell professor Olúfémi Táíwò contends the term "precolonial Africa" needs to be reconsidered and rejected. From Aeon / As used, the term ‘precolonial’ Africa and the distortions it represents cannot illuminate our understanding of Africa and its history. More importantly, it is wrong to think of colonialism as a

Our World Weekly

Innocence Lost

Event: January 19, 2023 | Author Tanya Katerí Hernández continues to detail disturbing aspects of the ongoing Black freedom struggle. | Register HERE. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The

Liberation House

Liberation House

Event: January 26, 2023 | Professor Sonya Douglass, Director of the Black Education Research Center, offers a new vision and strategy for U.S. education where schools are reimagined as sites of both human possibility and freedom. | - Register HERE.

Section 14

The city burned down a community for commercial development. Today, residents in Palm Springs, California make their case for reparations. Now. | From Sonya Singh via The Guardian / Six decades ago, hundreds of people in Palm Springs, California, came home to ashes. Their houses had burned, sometimes with their belongings inside

The Revolutionary Will Be Recognized

The Revolutionary Will Be Recognized

Author and professor Peniel Joseph, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, offers a more authentic and accurate recollection of our slain brother, Martin. LISTEN HERE. | Martin Luther King Jr. was a revolutionary - WDET 101.9 FMEven Malcolm X misunderstood what King meant by non-violence

The New Deputy Director

Our World Weekly

The New Deputy Director

Congratulations to Michelle Commander, the new Deputy Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. | From the NMAAHC / The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has announced the selection of its deputy director, Michelle Commander. Commander brings a plethora of experience, leadership

The Big Payback

Our World Weekly

The Big Payback

From Co-Directors Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, the Documentary Follows Alderman Robin Rue Simmons' Fight to Pass the First Government-Funded Reparations Program in Evanston, Illinois, Alongside Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as She Leads a National Movement To Pass HR 40. |

Phase One Complete

Phase One Complete

The New African Centres for Disease Control emerges in Addis Ababa. | From Africa CDC / "Africa CDC strengthens the capacity and capability of Africa’s public health institutions as well as partnerships to detect and respond quickly and effectively to disease threats and outbreaks, based on data-driven interventions and programmes.

A Brush with History

A Brush with History

Artist George McCalman's recently released book paints history in new light. | From Emily Hofstaedter via Mother Jones / "It is fitting that I interview illustrator and designer George McCalman on All Saints’ Day. When I flip through his new book, Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and Unseen,

The King Lecture in Social Justice

The King Lecture in Social Justice

Hybrid Event: January 25, 2023 | From the University of Pennsylvania / Penn's Center for Africana Studies presents its MLK Jr. Lecture in Social Justice featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Hannah-Jones has spent her

Fashion Forward. And Backwards.

Fashion Forward. And Backwards.

An A.I. generated fashion show from Malik Afegbua celebrates both elders and artistry. We're here for it - wherever here may be - and for everything else this artineer is doing. | From Ebony Flake via ESSENCE / "Last month, Malik Afegbua staged his first runway show—a

Gazing in Dubai

Gazing in Dubai

Ethiopian photographer Aida Muluneh's work will be on display at the Efie Gallery in Dubai. | From Harriet Lloyd-Smith via Wallpaper / "Aïda Muluneh has long been turning the global perception of Africa on its head. The Ethiopian photographer’s instantly identifiable visual language is a striking blend of

The Black Foodie Bookstore

Pan-African Food Festival

The Black Foodie Bookstore

This is what we're talking about. | From Kayla Stewart via bon appetit / Sisters Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport created and have operated this delicious dreamworld in Brooklyn since 2021. The bookstore stocks cookbooks by Black chefs as well as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s books that are related