Beginning with the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black people in America have used food as a means of resistance, rebellion, and revolution as well as maintaining a closeness with one another through the meals they ate.
The professor and broadcaster discusses writing black Britishness back into history, the backlash this provokes – and why he’s so proud of his heritage.
Food history – and food programming on TV – has been whitewashed for centuries. This powerful series sets an example of how to start correcting the record
Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television.
Those who desecrated the Capitol in January called themselves patriots. Millions supported them, including members of both Houses. This again reminded one of Robeson, because seventy-two years earlier, another angry mob might well have lynched him.
On Feb. 26, 1963, Ben Lewis, the first Black elected official from Chicago’s West Side, won what was set to be his second full term on the City Council -- perhaps next stop Congress. Two days later, Lewis was found shot to death in his ward office.
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Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements starting in the early 1960s.
The opening track of legendary drummer Max Roach's We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Released in 1960, this album is the result of a collaboration with lyricist Oscar Brown, Jr. and references both the African American civil rights movement and the independence struggles of African countries.
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
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