You can thank a racist white person for butter pecan ice cream. Also, did you know that a Black man cultivated vanilla first? #themoreyouknow
There's an ongoing debate about what happened to the Black population of Argentina.
A large life expectancy gap between blacks and their white counterparts is still prevalent in every state of the country. Why?
by Alexander Cain The book The Mis-education of the Negro was originally written as a dissertation by author Carter Godwin Woodson who wanted to investigate how efficient the current education structure was for African-Americans. Despite being written in 1933, some of the struggles facing African-Americans mentioned in the book still hold true today: African-Americans have […]
Is it just about consumerism or is ancestry involved?
These locales are known to cause adverse environmental and health issues.
We talked to those who took the leap of faith as minorities in Asia.
There are a lot of controversial moments, works, and speeches in African-American history; not just significant and progressive works but controversial ones that introduced a radical idea to the African-American framework, incited action and/or changed the way some interpreted the plight of Blacks in the diaspora. This list does not include the “I Have A […]
(The Grio) — In Mississippi, Alvin Robinson, an African-American man, was on trial for murder after he’d allegedly had an altercation with and killed a white man following a frightful traffic incident. During the jury selection for his trial, an African-American woman showed up dutifully for service, but was turned away because she had “no […]
Courts breaking their own anti-discrimination laws?
(News One) — At last week’s immigration march on Washington, tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied around the Capitol Building, calling for legislation that would afford legal status to the millions of illegal immigrants living and working within the United States. While official crowd estimates for such events are notoriously unreliable, the New […]