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When a video made headlines last month appearing to show an Asian store manager pinning down a black customer he had accused of shoplifting, Hyepin Im’s heart sank.“I said, ‘Oh s**t,’” Im, president and founder of Korean Churches for Community Development (KCCD), a national nonprofit, told NBC News.For some, that cellphone video from inside Missha Beauty in Charlotte, North Carolina, rekindled memories of the 1990s, a time of tense relations between Korean store owners and black customers in cities like New York and Los Angeles.“Here I am, really trying to help reshape the narrative that has been told and trying…

Diversity How nimble, mission-driven outlets and a citizen-focused initiative are telling stories about — and for — Black communities by Deborah Douglas Tiffany Walden (left) and Morgan Elise Johnson co-founded The TRiiBE to reshape the narrative being told about Chicago’s Black communities Chantal Redmond/The TRiiBE Source link

The Ohio University College of Fine Arts professional theater company, Tantrum Theater, produced a new work spotlighting one of many untold parts of Athens history, the Berry Hotel.  The play, “Hotel Berry,” was years in the making, said playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton, having been conceptualized in 2019. Lawton’s goal was to tell a story about Athens that wasn’t widely known, but that residents were proud of. The play was funded with the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts awarded to Tantrum Theater in 2021.  Actors, writers, producers and directors worked with the Mount Zion Baptist…

Chaotic and often violent protests against racial injustice have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of many Black Portland residents themselves — and their feelings about the unrest are nuanced and diverse. Some feel the overwhelmingly white crowds of protesters — and particularly those committing vandalism — are co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement. Others welcome white demonstrators because with their larger numbers they can draw attention to the city’s racial inequity in ways that Black demonstrators alone can’t. Some believe deeply that there can’t be a Black Lives Matter movement without defunding…

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How Slavery Evolved in New EnglandIn the 17th century, the majority of enslaved people in colonial New England were Native Americans. This shifted in the 18th century as New England colonists gained access to international African slave markets and sought to violently purge Native people from their lands, according to Clark-Pujara and Newell. These enslaved people worked on small farms and some larger plantation-style ones, as well as in homes, shipyards and mines. White colonists in New England also heavily invested in the slave trade, buying shares in slave ships and boosting their economy with profits from human trafficking.Early statutes…

“It doesn’t make any sense,” says Rashean Conaway. He’s sitting on a couch above Riddim n Spice, the North Nashville Jamaican restaurant and bar he co-owns with his brother, chef Kamal Kalokoh. It’s almost lunchtime. There are two ways each brother could finish that sentence.It doesn’t make sense to run a restaurant that doesn’t make money. That’s the current financial situation facing Riddim n Spice, which opened five years ago a block off Jefferson Street. Conaway says they’ve agreed on August as a make-or-break point. If business doesn’t pick up significantly, they’ll close. If he were a more sane person, Kalokoh…

through Kandis Edwards June 25, 2025 Candace Owens appeared in Pierce Morgan’s TV program and claimed that he was “ashamed” or supports Trump. Black Conservative Candient Owens is dissatisfied with the performance of Donald Trump and speaks out of the Spitak Trump. Political Pundit appeared on Pier Morgan’s news program and sincerely spoke of his “embarrassment”. According to Ous, his unbreakable has his limits. Trump’s most recent actions of foreign policy have turned the channel. He emphasizes the continued conflict with Israel and Iran. “I am ashamed of me that I said that people would vote for him, because it…

Last season, a pair of HBCU basketball teams that make the NCAA tournament – in 2026, they are forecasted to live the madness of march. Norfolk State and Jackson State is in the order of early Meac and Swac Favorites To do the 68 fieldAccording to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi. The best college basketball prognosticator of the world wide leader has released updated breketology on Tuesday and has expected spartans and tigers to play in March. Photo: Courtesy: Jackson State Athletics Norfolk state that won the Meac tournament and fell in the first round The result is National Champion Florida, Being…

Saying that Love Island usa One of his most striking episodes in the history of the series on Tuesday night would be underestimated. Especially considering that there are strength Shocking episodes in the program but one of the quotas this week Season 7 You may have taken the cake. The fans were blinked as two Og islanders who have been in the town from day one, they were apparently affected in a wild turn of events, but they are not afraid, because things are not entirely what they look like. Love house bombs could choose to collect For the first…