The Black Wall Street Times on MSN14d
Phillis Wheatley: The first African American poet to publish a book
This led to the release of her first book of poetry in 1773. This book made Wheatley the first African American and one of ...
'Kanye West Is Not Picasso': 10 rules for diss tracks, from Cohen to Drake vs. Lamar
The diss track reached its peak of cultural prominence at the Super Bowl, when Kendrick Lamar performed Not Like Us, his hit ...
'I awakened to the American Nightmare': Central Park Five's Yusef Salaam shares his story
Yusef Salaam addressed an intimate audience at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
allAfrica.com on MSN2d
Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on ...
21 banned books to read to honor Black history all year
The first known banned book was Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan," a book published in 1637 that was banned by the Puritan ...
Irish — and American — like me
My grandparents emigrated from Counties Sligo, Limerick, and Cork. Fittingly, the first book I took out of the children’s ...
The New Yorker10d
The Last Time Pro-Palestinian Activists Faced Deportation
Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight, in which a group of students were targeted, not because of ...
Variety18d
Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Spoke to Worldwide Audiences, Dies at 92
The story, set in the South African township of Soweto, centers on a young criminal (the title means “thug ... His 2002 play “Sorrows and Rejoicings” concerned a poet who returns to South Africa after ...
At the National Gallery, Elizabeth Catlett’s diversity feels revolutionary
A timely new exhibit surveys the work of a committed champion of the oppressed and marginalized.