David Blackwell (photo via nytimes.com) via jbhe.com The University of California Berkeley is naming its newest residence hall in honor of David Blackwell . Dr. Blackwell, an accomplished statistician, was the first African American to be grant tenured at the university. Source: Dr. David Blackwell, […]
via jbhe.com Recently the University of South Carolina unveiled a nine-foot statue of Richard T. Greener on campus. The bronze statue, located between the library and the student health center, hon… Source: Richard T. Greener, 1st Black Faculty Member of University of South Carolina, is […]
Target to carry Melissa Butler’s The Lip Bar in stores. (Melissa Butler) by Nekea Valentine via thegrio.com According to Allure , Target has partnered with the Black-owned beauty brand, The Lip Bar , and will launch their line of vegan and cruelty-free products this spring. […]
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on “Face the Racist Nation”: “When you make it about ignorance, you’re also making it about individual people and you’re not making it about power and policy and structures and systems.” Source: LISTEN: Why Does the Media Have So Much Trouble […]
Before César Chávez and Dolores Huerta , there was Maria Moreno, a union organizer whose story all but disappeared from history until the discovery of lost photographs taken more than 50 years ago by George Ballis, one of the leading photographers of the farmworker movement. […]
After 20 Years of Solo Protest, a Texas Man is This close to Toppling a Confederate Monument Persistence is resistance. Source: After 20 Years of Solo Protest, a Texas Man is Thisclose to Toppling a Confederate Monument
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