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The history of California’s rural communities, like the ones in Nevada County, cannot be told without including the role of African Americans who worked the land, built homesteads, and worked to protect equal rights for all people.Art in Public Spaces is a fairly new program of the Nevada County Arts Council, in partnership with Nevada County, that presents quarterly displays at the Rood Center located at 950 Maidu Avenue in Nevada City.This week approximately 50 guests attended the opening reception for an exhibit titled “We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California” that will be on display…

Get a weekly serving of the hottest NJ food news sent right to your inbox with our Side Dish newsletter. In the weeks since the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Vonda McPherson, chef/owner of the soul food restaurant Vonda’s Kitchen in Newark, has been doing especially brisk business. “People always bought a lot of food, but they’ve been buying even more,” she says.“We’ve always had customers who come from different cultures, and they want you to know that what happened to George Floyd was horrible,” says McPherson, who is Black. “What I’ve been seeing from…

From Nubian Markets to the National Center for Afro-American Artists, a local tour guide offers his picks for the best places to see Boston’s Black cultureBoston is a city of neighbourhoods, and if you wander off the 2.5-mile Freedom Trail that passes through 16 significant sites in US history, you’ll find extraordinary stories tucked in every nook and corner. Getting visitors to explore the city’s varied cultural districts has long been a goal of Collin Knight, who founded Live Like a Local Tours in 2019. As a native of Roxbury, the neighbourhood that’s the beating heart of Boston’s Black community,…

American Experience, PBS’ stellar television series documenting important historical events, has produced a new film that raises issues that have shaped our country and are just as vital to us today. Writer-Directors Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen’s film “American Coup: Wilmington 1898” is a well-crafted timepiece. It explores a post-Civil War outrage of death and destruction. But just as crucial as baring the roots of American historical injustices, it dramatically focuses on unresolved problems that threaten today’s political and moral fabric. Once and would-be U.S. President Donald Trump threatens a modern reenactment, Wilmington-style, complete with racist, anti-democratic purges. In the…

NEW YORK — Sylvia’s, a soul food restaurant on Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, New York, saw a welcome bump in donations and revenue from new customers in early June following calls to “buy Black” after the death of George Floyd.But the increase didn’t help the 58-year-old landmark restaurant turn a profit. The coronavirus pandemic has limited its operations, forcing the Harlem staple to lay off most of its staff and slash revenues.Owner Tren’ness Woods-Black welcomed the publicity but said she is more concerned about her core clientele, a devoted group of mostly Black patrons who used to dine at…

LINCOLN HEIGHTS, Ohio—African Americans started coming to Cincinnati more than a century ago, fleeing the violence and economic constraints of the South for jobs and homes.But redlining and other restrictive zoning laws prohibited black families from buying homes in many of the city’s neighborhoods. So when developers started selling off lots of unincorporated land north of Cincinnati to black buyers, it seemed like a good opportunity, one of the few paths to homeownership in the segregated North.The land had no paved roads and no streetlights. Few homes had running water and there was no police or fire protection. Carl Westmoreland,…

Reuters”Portland is a city where young people go to retire.”Fred Armisen declared this – in song form – in the opening scene of the sketch comedy show Portlandia in January 2011. The show satirised the city on the US West Coast for its “hipster” culture – a city that gave unicyclists the right of way, where people brewed kombucha before it became mainstream, and whose slogan was literally “Keep Portland Weird”.Four years later, with the city in the throes of rapid gentrification, beloved Portland magazine Willamette Week declared to its readers that this moment in 2011 was officially the day…

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When Black Enterprise magazine was first published in 1970, the American economic landscape was in a period of transition that resulted from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; the outlawing of de jure racial segregation created pathways to black mobility and the emergence of a black middle class. Created with the intent both to serve as a resource for budding and current black entrepreneurs and to highlight the achievements or even the mere existence of black entrepreneurship, Black Enterprise has continued to become a leading guide on issues facing black entrepreneurs and the people who are succeeding in spite of such challenges.Having established the magazine after…

Dolly Parton attends MusiCares Person of the Year honoring her in 2019. Rich Fury/Getty Images for NARAS hide caption toggle caption Rich Fury/Getty Images for NARAS Dolly Parton attends MusiCares Person of the Year honoring her in 2019. Rich Fury/Getty Images for NARAS Country music icon Dolly Parton has revealed that she used some of the royalties she earned from Whitney Houston’s cover of her song “I Will Always Love You” to invest in an office complex in a Black neighborhood in Nashville, Tenn. During an appearance on the show Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Parton said she…