Remaining Griot/te Of The Not-Yet-Lost Ark: Barbara Kukla's Not-Even-Close-To-Last Stand
It can be disorienting when the past, present and future collide, particularly in a sacred, public, historically communal space. It requires a special kind of courage, because it’s not just memories that cloud: it’s sights and sounds of people that remind one of sights and sounds of other people—folks long gone but…
In Newark, City Control Of Schools Is Modestly Feted As Family Meeting
Newark finally got back control of its schools from the state of New Jersey on Feb. 1, and the way it looked in a city with only two employers for a majority of its working-class population (the city government and the schools), it was literally like a family got control of its house back.
Marvel Made a Black Panther Movie Partly Because Reginald Hudlin Put the ‘Black’ in Panther
Editor’s note: This excerpt from Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates (published by Diasporic Africa Press, 2018) talks about the impact black filmmaker Reginald Hudlin had on the character. For the first 32 years of its existence, the Black Panther—created by Marvel Comics…
"The State of Black America" Root Article Sidebar: In Washington, D.C., Black Leaders Vent At Frederick Douglass' Church
How scared, anxious and angry has Agent Orange, a.k.a. President Trump, made folks? Mark Thompson, a Sirius XM radio host, said his 14-old-son is afraid to be drafted to go to war.
The State of Black America: Leaders Outline the Problem, but the Solution Is Really Simple
At what point does lighting the candle instead of cursing the darkness become an example of just plain—and deliberate—political impotence?
Harriet Tubman On Amtrak: With A New National Park Visitor Center Grand Opening And Perhaps A Viola Davis HBO Movie, She Is Still Dominating The (African-)American Imagination
It’s a violation of my Green Lantern oath as a historian, but perhaps it’s a waste of time in 2017 to talk about the “real” Harriet Tubman versus the Harriet Tubman of our collective imagination.