Why Black People Dress up On Easter
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The Easter Speech Is The Original Masterclass of Black Excellence
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Black Writers’ Room: Author Gives Us a Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Covert War on Jamaica
With the death of Fidel Castro, there has been a resurgence of interest in his role as an advocate for countries in Africa and the Caribbean. One of those countries was Jamaica, where Castro would help build schools and hospitals and train Jamaican workers. In the 1970s, Castro developed a friendship and partnership with then-Jamaican…
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Has US Media Coverage of Castro’s Death Been Overly Politicized?
We saw the scenes of Cuban exiles in Miami dancing in the streets Saturday at the news that Fidel Castro had died at age 90. It was not difficult to find the views of people like Tom Llamas, an ABC News reporter whose parents fled the island as political exiles. He was emotional as he…
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Dances of the Diaspora: Tap Dance, an Original American Art Form Rooted in Slavery
For Chloé and Maud Arnold, tap dancing is life. For these sisters and entrepreneurs, who have been tap dancing since childhood, the art form has given them a lucrative career—they are founders of the D.C. Tap Festival, film producers and more. Whenever Chloé and Maud have the opportunity, the Washington, D.C., natives, who were mentored by Debbie Allen, spread…
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Nearly Half of American Voters Expect Worsened Race Relations
“Nearly half of U.S. voters (46%) expect [Donald J.] Trump’s election to lead to worse race relations, while just 25% say they will improve (26% say there will be no difference),” Shiva Maniam reported Monday for Pew Research Center. “By contrast, after [Barack] Obama’s election eight years ago, 52% of voters expected race relations to…
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Prominent Race Panelist: Trump Should ‘Raise the Fight in You’
No doubt that a panel of thinkers about race would have said the same thing even if they hadn’t just seen portions of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS documentary “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise.” They concluded nevertheless that the impending presidency of Donald J. Trump demands that black America fight back. And…
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More Than 1,300 Attend Service for Pioneering Political Journalist Gwen Ifill
When the service set aside for community tributes to Gwen Ifill ended Friday night at Washington’s historic Metropolitan AME Church, knots of people found each other as they remained in the sanctuary. The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was with the New York Times’ Yamiche Alcindor and Sherrilyn Ifill, Gwen’s cousin and president and director-counsel of…
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‘Morning Joe’ Admits Smearing NY Times’ Dean Baquet
On Nov. 10, Joe Scarborough claimed that New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet declared in August that “the New York Times’ job and journalists’ job now was to defeat Donald Trump.” Scarborough acknowledged Tuesday to the Times’ Jim Rutenberg, pictured, that he misspoke. After excoriating reporters who covered the 2016 presidential campaign as “cheerleaders”…
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Dances of the Diaspora: ‘If You Can Walk, You Can Dance’
In Africa, dancing is a way of life. And for Senegal native Maguette Camara, dance has become a part of his essence. West Africa is a vast region of countries that create a robust culture—from music to fashion, food and beyond. West African dance, accompanied by a djembe drum, is a fixture within the culture…
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Gwen Ifill, Powerful Role Model, Dies at 61
Eartha Kitt, the politically active actress and chanteuse whose “Santa Baby” still lights up holiday playlists, was on her deathbed in 2008 when The HistoryMakers, an organization honoring black achievement, decided to honor Kitt with a tribute to be televised on PBS. The entertainer had only one condition, and it was the same one as…
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Lone Black Reporter Covering Trump Campaign Reveals Good, Bad, Ugly
Race was not high on the list of concerns listed in analyses of Donald J. Trump’s victory Tuesday, but the self-described only black reporter who covered Trump in the field wrote Wednesday that, to her, the subject was omnipresent. “In this, my experience was not unique. Nearly all those who covered Trump have been booed,…