Civil rights icon, who died Tuesday, shifted Black politics and leftist coalition-building from the sidecar of the Democratic party to the driver’s seat
By the early 1980s, the Democratic party was fa…
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Young ladies too tired to stand at a Black debutante ball: Miranda Barnes’s best photograph ⊕⊕
‘The girls wait for two or three hours to be introduced. The reason they’re sitting on the ground is because there weren’t any chairs in the waiting room’
My new book Social Season opens with a poem s…
4 months ago
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game-changing photographer ⊕⊕
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London film festival
Brathwaite’s empowering images of African Americans in the 1960s gave a new generation a fresh template for representation, brilliantly honoured here
There have been some fascinat…
6 months ago
Not just Braveheart: black Scots become TikTok hit among African Americans ○
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Glaswegian teacher’s moan about the weather has racked up 4m views – and opened conversations about race on both sides of Atlantic
It began with a good-natured rant about the Scottish summer weather a…
7 months ago
Toni at Random by Dana A Williams review – the editorial years of a literary great ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
This illuminating account of Toni Morrison’s time at Random House reveals her determination to relate the ideas and words of black America
While a great deal has been written about Toni Morrison’s fic…
9 months ago
‘Refuge to all African Americans’ – What Ramaphosa should have told Trump ○
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Tafi Mhaka imagines an alternate reality where South Africa grants asylum to 48 million African Americans.
‘He gave us a sense of pride’: Rev Al Sharpton on Malcolm X’s 100th birthday ○
Veteran activist reflects on Malcolm’s legacy and decades of progress now rolled back by Trump and ‘white supremacy on steroids’
When African Americans protested police brutality in New York, they wer…
11 months ago
Bloody Sunday: restored photos show the violence that shocked a nation ○
‘Spider’ Martin’s newly restored photos that documented firsthand the violence on 7 March 1965 are on view at Alabama exhibit Selma Is Now
Sixty years ago, on 7 March 1965, civil rights leaders and no…
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