Category: United States

  • A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of “Lovecraft Country” and “The Vanishing Half”

  • A riveting biography of Walter F. White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever

  • Latinx is a buzzword for individuals of Latin American origin in the United States, yet the use of “Latinx” as a noun to identify people of Latino and Hispanic heritage is not universally welcomed.

  • What few outside his family and close friends knew at that time: Taffy Abel was Native American – the first Indigenous athlete to carry the flag at the Olympics. Within days he’d become the first Native American to win a medal in winter games history.

  • A New Orleans Company Shines A Light On Opera’s Diverse History Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2017-05-28 Malika Gumpangkum and Lulu Garcia-Navarro From left to right: Aria Mason (Rosalia), Ebonee Davis (Piquita) and Kenya Lawrence Jackson (La Flamenca) star in OperaCréole’s production of La Flamenca. Cedric A. Ellsworth/Courtesy of OperaCréole For many people, New…

  • The story of this brilliant, sometime forgotten, underrated composer can date back to the ugly history of racial discrimination in the United States. His family’s sojourner led this brilliant man to work and strive in his chosen profession. It was that sacrifice of his father that made that opportunity possible.

  • Eric Stinton: It’s Time To Recognize That Black History Is Part Of Hawaii’s History Honolulu Civic Beat Honolulu, Hawaii 2022-02-07 Eric Stinton Nitasha Tamar Sharma Nitasha Tamar Sharma attempts to clarify misconceptions and challenges common assumptions about race in Hawaii in her book “Hawaiʻi Is My Haven.” On the cover of Nitasha Tamar Sharma’s recent…

  • The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.

  • With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, “Louisiana Creole Peoplehood” tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people who have been negated and written out of settler governmental policy.

  • ‘The Chevalier’ team is eager to burnish the legacy of Joseph Bologne Experience CSO Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Chicago, Illinois 2022-02-01 Kyle MacMillan Originally commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, “The Chevalier” received its debut run at the Tanglewood Learning Institute, as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival, in 2019. A champion fencer, gifted athlete,…