culture
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Library of Congress Gets African-American Oral History Archive
The Library of Congress is now the home of The HistoryMakers collection, which details the black experience in America, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced on Tuesday. “The HistoryMakers archive provides invaluable first-person accounts of both well-known and unsung African-Americans, detailing their hopes, dreams and accomplishments—often in the face of adversity,” Billington said in…
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4-Year-Old Ruins Baby Sitter’s Plan to Blame Robbery on Black Man
A baby sitter got more than she bargained for when she told the little girl she was baby-sitting to lie. Four-year-old Abby Dean ruined her baby sitter’s plan to frame the next-door neighbor for a robbery she conspired to commit with her boyfriend on the house where she was baby-sitting, according to Fox 6. On…
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MLK’s Daughter Talks About Her Parents’ Legacy and Her Sibling Rivalry
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,” said author and political activist Helen Keller. “And no slave who has not had a king among his.” And perhaps this has never been more befitting than when applied to the famed African-American family whose name, history and legacy are synonymous with…
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LeBron James Opts Out of Contract With Miami Heat, Becoming Free Agent
Let the frenzy begin. LeBron James has exercised “his early-termination option,” making him an unrestricted free agent on July 1, ESPN reports. While James had until June 30 to opt out of his current contract, ESPN believes that having his agent, Rich Paul, tell the Miami Heat a week before the deadline gives not only…
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Sudanese Woman’s Death Sentence for Christian Conversion Struck Down
Updated June 24, 2014, 11:58 a.m. EDT: Meriam Ibrahim has been detained at the international airport in Khartoum, Sudan—the country’s capital—while she, her husband and two children were attempting to leave the country, according to her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour, the Daily News reports. “They knew she had been cleared by the court, but they have rearrested her,”…
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New Kidnappings in Nigeria; Boko Haram Is Main Suspect
Although Nigeria has wrapped up the investigation concerning the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, who are still missing, the militant group reportedly behind it all, Boko Haram, is showing little signs of slowing its reign of terror. According to the New York Times, the Islamic radicals are now under suspicion for new…
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2 Dead, Some 8 Injured in Miami Shooting
Gunfire erupted at a Miami apartment building early Tuesday, leaving two dead and at least eight injured, the Miami Herald reports. According to the report, the shooting occurred in a low-income neighborhood, Liberty City, around 2:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, outside the building. There was one reported casualty at the scene, with another individual succumbing to…
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Spike Lee: New Kickstarter Film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Is Not a Vampire Movie
Spike Lee did not take Kickstarter funds to make a vampire film. “It is not a vampire film!” Lee jokingly corrected an audience member during a Q&A Sunday at New York’s SVA Theater, the Daily News reports. Lee wanted to make clear to those in attendance at the closing-night event at the 18th annual American Black…
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President Obama Plays Defender for England’s World Cup Team?
President Barack Obama is a huge sports fan and a pretty good basketball player—but he does not play defender for England’s national soccer team. That is the mistake one souvenir company recently made when it put the president’s face on a commemorative mug where England player Chris Smalling’s face should have appeared, the New York…
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Activists Head to Mississippi to Commemorate Freedom Summer
Civil rights activists, youth organizers and religious leaders from around the country will travel south this week to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. Dubbed Freedom 50, the commemoration (June 25-29) will remember the civil rights history made in Mississippi during the 1964 Freedom Summer and will create the largest convening of…