Category: Articles

  • Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…

  • Rhineland Children Arriving In The Future: Stories of Home and Exile 2015-01-20 Asoka Esuruoso & Philipp Khabo Koepsell Germany’s brief colonial period saw an increase in the community of Africans and Afro Germans in Germany. Many Black Germans were also descendants of Black Askari troops recruited from Germany’s former colonies. Thousands of these men had…

  • Evidence-based care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, study finds Stanford Medicine News Center 2015-01-26 Lisa Marie Potter Office of Communication & Public Affairs A new study finds that equitable delivery of evidence-based care eliminates the racial disparity in colon-cancer survival rates. For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented…

  • How Do Integrated Health Care Systems Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Colon Cancer? Journal of Clinical Oncology Published online: 2015-01-26 DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2014.56.8642 Kim F. Rhoads, Colon and rectal surgeon, Colorectal surgeon, Surgical oncologist; Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford University School of Medicine Manali I. Patel,…

  • The Garifuna Exodus Latino USA 2015-01-23 Maria Hinojosa, Executive Producer & Anchor Marlon Bishop, Producer For centuries, the Garifuna people — descendents of both Africans and indigenous Arawak people from the Caribbean — have lived peacefully in seaside towns on the North Coast of Honduras. There’s always been a trickle of migration from the community…

  • Black Germans and the Holocaust International Slavery Museum Liverpool, England, United Kingdom 2015-01-14 The International Slavery Museum will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a special free guest lecture by Professor Eve Rosenhaft from the University of Liverpool, who will be talking about the experiences of the Black German community during…

  • The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…

  • Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award Penn News University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-23 Jacquie Posey, Media Contact Telephone: 215-898-6460 The American Psychiatric Association has named University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award in recognition of her demonstrated leadership and exceptional achievements. The award honors…

  • Mixed Race People Are Changing The Face Of America Huffington Post Live 2013-10-04 Hosted by: Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Guests: Marvin Russell @marvinrussell (Chicago, IL) CEO of The Ocean Agency Sarah Willie-LeBreton (Swarthmore, PA) Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben (New York, NY) Author of “There’s an Easter Egg on Your Seder Plate”…

  • Dear Hollywood: Let’s Stop Making Movies Like “Black or White” Forbes 2015-01-30 Rebecca Theodore Halfway through the family drama “Black Or White,” Jeremiah Jeffers (Anthony Mackie) an Ivy-League educated lawyer, chastises his drug addict nephew Reggie (Andre Holland) in the midst of helping him regain custody of his daughter by asking, “Why do you have…