Category: Articles

  • The iconic Egyptian writer speaks out about being ignored by “colonial capitalist patriarchal powers” and how today’s African women writers are leading a revolt.

  • Chi-chi Nwanoku: A classical legacy and an African heritage Music Africa Magazine 2016-06-16 Ed Keazor A short biography of Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE, world-renowned classical baroque bassist and Professor of Music, covering her life, influences and deep connections to her African roots. Dr Michael Nwanoku adjusted himself in his seat as the next announcement was about…

  • “Free State of Jones” is the film Reconstruction historians have been waiting for. Reconstruction, which encompassed the decade following the Civil War, is perhaps the most overlooked era in American history. It is the only period that doesn’t have a National Park Service site commemorating it.

  • Mary Seacole statue unveiled at London ceremony Nursing Standard 2016-07-01 Alistair Kleebauer More than 200 years after her birth and 12 years after a campaign started to recognise her achievements, a statue to nurse heroine Mary Seacole has been unveiled in London. To applause and loud cheers the permanent memorial to Mrs Seacole was unveiled…

  • Ranger’s voice spans East Bay history San Francisco Chronicle 2010-01-31 Lee Hildebrand, Special to The Chronicle Betty Reid Soskin is a “phenomenal woman,” to borrow the title of a famous poem by Maya Angelou. In her 88 years, Betty has been a shipyard worker, proprietor of a record store, housewife and mother of four, singer…

  • Coin given to US’s oldest park ranger by Barack Obama stolen in home invasion The Guardian 2016-06-30 Sam Levin Ranger Betty Soskin holds a photo of herself has a young woman. Photograph: Alamy The White House is sending a replacement coin to 94-year-old Betty Soskin, who says she hopes she can recover the original from…

  • The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America Truthout 2016-06-26 Roberto Rodriguez Mexican American & Raza Studies Department University of Arizona As the 2020 US census looms, this arcane ritual will once again result in the painting of a false picture of the demographic makeup of the United States. While the nation has been getting…

  • Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says National Public Radio 2016-07-01 Kendra Yoshinaga Today’s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation’s children by 2020, as our colleague Bill Chappell reported last year. This is now the reality…

  • Colorblind Salon 2007-01-22 Debra J. Dickerson Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race — if he were actually black. I am confident that I have held out longer than any other pundit to weigh in on both the phenomenon that is Barack Obama and the question of whether race…

  • What black America won’t miss about Obama Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-07-01 John Blake (CNN) President Barack Obama was delivering a speech before a joint session of Congress when a white lawmaker jabbed his right index finger at Obama and called him a liar. The heckling came during his September 2009 address on health care.…