Rolling Out1d
Powerful images to celebrate during Black History Month
As a new generation is discovering Elizabeth Catlett's work, Ron Rumford hopes that her message of empowerment is instilled ...
36 Hours in St. Petersburg, Fla.
St. Petersburg can come as a surprise to visitors expecting malls and subdivisions. There are beautiful beaches, yes, but ...
Black History Month: Arts events, local activism and more through February
February is Black History Month, dedicated to the legacy of African culture in America. But with events commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. starting in mid-January, the San ...
Tiff Massey’s ‘7 Mile & Livernois’ exhibition isn’t just about a neighborhood – it’s a tribute to Black Detroit
(THE CONVERSATION) “7 Mile + Livernois” at the Detroit Institute of Arts celebrates Detroit as a place for Black women to live and create by elevating both the work of the featured artist, Tiff Massey ...
African Development Bank17d
Africa's Power Revolution: Mission 300 to Light Up Continent’s Future
Exceptional World Bank Group-African Development Bank Collaboration to Connect 300 million People to Electricity by 2030 Dar es Salaam Energy Summit to Chart Pathways for Energy Transformation ...
WBEZ19d
‘Project a Black Planet’ is a history-making survey of Pan-African art
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black ... One that resonates with me a great deal is a self-portrait by the African American artist Buford Delaney. It’s called “Self-Portrait ...
New York Post19d
American Dream megamall flouts 17th-century NJ blue laws — and officials aren’t happy: ‘Deeply concerning’
New Jersey’s American Dream megamall is flouting centuries ... Dating back to the 17th century, the continually controversial Bergen blue laws ban the Sunday sale of non-essential items such ...
Hustle Belt23d
An exhaustive look at potential Mid-American Conference expansion candidates
This time last week, NIU departed for the Mountain West as a football-only member. We still haven’t heard about what will happen to their other sports and how the MAC will deal with such a ...
The American Conservative25d
Getting Russia Wrong: A Quarter Century of Putin
In that phone call, he expressed his condolences to the president and the American people and his unequivocal ... cooperation began to unravel in the mid-2000s. Indeed, future historians (should ...
The New York Times25d
David Lynch, ‘Twin Peaks’ and the American Art of Television
By James Poniewozik Is “Twin Peaks” the most American TV series ever made ... a monster pop-culture sensation — this from the art-house director who had released the phantasmagoric ...
Wall Street Journal25d
Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities
STILFONTEIN, South Africa—At least 78 people have died after authorities imposed a blockade on an illegal gold mine here, part of a monthslong standoff between prospectors and a government ...
CNN25d
Djimon Hounsou on battling ‘systemic racism,’ and reconnecting Black people to their African roots
Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he could not ...