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#MakeKwanzaaGreatAgain, Explained

#MakeKwanzaaGreatAgain, Explained

#MakeKwanzaaGreatAgain, Explained Michael Harriot Sure. This will be one of our shortest explainers ever.

Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces

Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces

Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces While visiting national parks to detox from the oppressive whiteness of the MFA experience, Minda Honey is remin...

Videos showing violent arrest of a black motorist renew concern about Pasadena police tactics

Videos showing violent arrest of a black motorist renew concern about Pasadena police tactics

Videos showing violent arrest of a black motorist renew concern about Pa... Makeda Easter, Richard Winton Videos of Christopher Ballew's violent arrest by Pasadena police have renewed concerns about law enforcement tre...

 How the U.S. Used Jazz as a Cold War Secret Weapon

“In the late 1950s, as the civil rights movement took hold, the violence intensified,” says Hugo Berkeley, the director of a new film, Jazz Ambassadors, premiering on PBS in the spring. The film shows how in 1957, in protest against the Little Rock crisis, Louis Armstrong cancelled plans for a State Department tour through the Soviet Union. It was not until 1961, when the civil rights movement had made significant headway, that Armstrong changed his mind, and agreed to tour Africa. “There was this feeling that a page was being turned in the political discussion of race,” Berkeley says."

How the U.S. Used Jazz as a Cold War Secret Weapon

How the U.S. Used Jazz as a Cold War Secret Weapon It may not be too much of an exaggeration to say the jazz ambassadors could have saved the world

'Rappin' Max Robot,' the First Hip-Hop Comic Book

'Rappin' Max Robot,' the First Hip-Hop Comic Book

'Rappin' Max Robot,' the First Hip-Hop Comic Book With the help of Keith Haring, Eric Orr created the four-issue series in 1986.

Will the Caribbean Go the Full Distance for Reparations From Europe?

Will the Caribbean Go the Full Distance for Reparations From Europe? | Black Agenda Report

Will the Caribbean Go the Full Distance for Reparations From Europe? | B... “The EU states involved -- especially Britain, France and Spain -- have made it crystal clear they don‘t want to...