Category: Articles

  • Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Kingstree News Kingstree, South Carolina 2017-02-07 Cassandra Williams Rush, Special to The News Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Photo by Ronald Walton Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the Electoral College, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the Mayor of Kingstree. He was born February 23, 1832…

  • Leyton playwright Lynette Linton’s play #Hashtag Lightie will be running at Arcola Theatre in Dalston Wimbledon Guardian 2017-01-23 Rachel Russell What does it mean to be mixed race in this day and age? That is the question being posed by Leyton writer Lynette Linton in her new play #Hashtag Lightie at the Arcola Theatre, in…

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • It’s February, and that means it’s Black History Month! Check out these four queer Black Canadian women authors whose books you should definitely have on your shelves.

  • Safe space for multiracial students The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline, Massachusetts 2017-02-04 Sofia Reynoso, Staff Writer According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 2016-2016 data, 7.5 percent of the high school’s student body consists of multiracial students. A new club known as the Multiracial Identifying Community (MIC) is forming…

  • A Family That Pushed Racial Boundaries Through Generations The New York Times 2017-01-27 Caitlin Dickerson, National Reporter From left: Blake, Jared, Bryan and Deborah Treadwell, photographed in Eastham, Mass. Credit Erik Jacobs for The New York Times When Lizzie Connor kissed her husband goodbye and hopped on a train at Grand Central Depot, The New…

  • MARRIED TO A NEGRO. The New York Times Thursday, 1885-05-14 Page 8, column 5 A few days ago passengers waiting in the New-Haven Railroad rooms at the Grand Central Station were surprised at the attention paid a young white woman by a colored man, who was dressed in the height of fashion. They were more…

  • ‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98 The Washington Post 2017-01-27 Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician…

  • The future is mixed-race Aeon 2017-02-02 Scott Solomon, Professor in the Practice Department of BioSciences Rice University, Houston, Texas Edited by Sam Dresser A grandmother and granddaughter from Cape Verde. Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic And so is the past. Migration and mingling are essential to human success in the past, the present and…

  • Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors.  Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…