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At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal The Washington Post Source link

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The nation’s first free public library for African Americans has roots in the commonwealth.  What You Need To Know Western Library, which is a branch of the Louisville Free Public Library, opened in 1905  It was the nation’s first free public library for African Americans  Western Library started archiving its African-American history as a digital library in 2019; anyone can get access  “Western [Library] was like the community center,” said Natalie Woods, branch manager. “We didn’t have a lot of those things back then, so this is where people came.”  A branch of the Louisville Free Public…

To the editor: Many sincere white Americans have raised the question of why African Americans have failed to become as successful as other people of color, especially recent immigrants to United States. The article on lynchings sheds some light on the subject.The story of the murder of Elmore Bolling, a successful black businessman, by his jealous white neighbor in Alabama in 1949 was just a glimpse into a pattern of racist violence that terrorized African Americans for generations. On a broader scale, during the Jim Crow era white Americans destroyed prosperous black businesses in many communities.One of the most notorious…

Shain’s of Maine lost its most prominent customer – the Portland Sea Dogs – Friday after a social media storm caused by an accusation of racial bias against the Sanford ice cream maker’s owner. The online protests of Shain’s of Maine began Wednesday morning after Melitta Nichols posted on Facebook about an incident involving her daughter Iaomi, who worked at Shain’s and who is black. Nichols posted that Jeff Shain, the company’s owner, asked her daughter why he couldn’t use a racial slur. The post came as the country was witnessing massive emotional protests of racial injustice spurred by the…

Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decision NBC News Source link

New Haven Black Wall Street Festival celebrates Black excellence, entrepreneurship and culture fox61.com Source link

Any large social movement is shaped by the technology available to it and tailors its goals, tactics, and rhetoric to the media of its time. On the afternoon of Sunday, March 7, 1965, when voting-rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, were run down by policemen at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the WATS lines were in heavy use. (“Here come the white hoodlums,” an activist said from a corner pay phone at 3:25 pm.) But the technology that was most important to the movement’s larger aims was not in activists’ hands at all: It was in a set of film canisters being…

 As Northern Nevada’s growing population of black bears looks for places to create dens to spend the coming winter, it’s all about location, location, location. And, like their human neighbors, the region’s black bears are searching for winter homes that are safe, warm and good places to get youngsters started in life. Newly published research from a team led by scientists in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources at the University of Nevada, Reno shines new light on the decision making of black bears as they search for dens to spend the winter in the Sierra Nevada and…

“You know it was like listening to jazz musicians, black people in music were very, very critical. They hated the mediocre. So I wanted it to be like that. I wanted it to be so good, where the judgement of people who knew the community was so powerful, that I could not play. “I knew how to play up to a white reader, I knew how to manipulate that, that was easy but writing for black people is tough. Really tough, if they take you seriously.” And while her writing needed to resonate with those readers about the complexities of…

INDIANAPOLIS — Inside the Speak Easy, a co-working space in Midtown, you’ll find a community of entrepreneurs.”Your first customer might be in here, your co-founder might be in here,” Chelsea Marburger, The Speak Easy’s Executive Director said. “We basically offer four walls, a floor, a door and great WiFi.”Members from several different industries use the co-working space.”We see that people are wanting to get back in, even if it’s just running into each other over coffee, or sitting across from each other, working on totally separate projects at a table. We’re human beings — we crave that community connection,” Marburger…