Russell Wilson: Faith, Family & Football

The NFL champ riffs on his influential career, Black love and the belief system at the center of it all
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As Many Black Women in U.S. Abandon Hair Relaxers Linked to Cancer, Sales Climb in African Countries

companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners, like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals
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Stronger Today, Than Yesterday: Black Women-Owned Businesses After the Pandemic
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Mister Cee, legendary hip-hop DJ, dies at 57. Why the hip-hop community is in deep mourning

The influential New York City DJ helped launch the careers of Notorious B.I.G., 50 Cent, Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
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Black Maternal Health Week: These Groups Are Dedicated To Improving Maternal Health Outcomes For Black Women

Black women are dying at disproportionate rates during childbirth and these organizations are committed to ending the Black maternal health crisis
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Are We Really in the Middle of a ‘Racial Realignment’ in Politics?

“The Black vote has actually been very stable,” one professor says.
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Combatting Housing Discrimination Across the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an investment of over $30 million in housing organizations nationwide to combat discrimination.
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“Efforts to ban black history books and classes illustrate the systemic nature of their resistance. Indeed, the racism Black bookstore owners experience today can also be traced back to this tradition.” — Allison Wiltz Psy.M. link.medium.com/3IEtrhWwIIb

Scoot Henderson's NBA Book Club

The NBA rookie has made sense of his first pro season by turning to literature. “I was really trying to figure out who I was,” he tells GQ Magazine. “That’s why I started reading.”
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Students in the ' #BlackPopularCulture : From #BlackTwitter to Left of Black' course working with Eric Barstow (Eric Barstow), director and producer of Left of Black at Franklin Humanities Institute

Shipping’s Shadow World | Vanessa Ogle

The shipping industry, which moves more than 80 percent of global trade, is poorly regulated, environmentally dangerous, and rife with labor violations
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Glenn Loury Comes Clean

'So why, at this moment of late-career renaissance, publish a memoir that digs up so much dirt?'

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I see you Aaliyah Bilal!

10 writers win 2024 Whiting Awards for emerging authors
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Cornel West Picks a Black Lives Matter Activist as His Running Mate

'Melina Abdullah, a racial justice activist in Los Angeles and professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, joins the independent presidential ticket.'
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Coaching Great Dawn Staley Defends Trans Athletes

The courageous comments of the South Carolina Gamecocks’ coach upset all the right people.
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Border politics | Jan Bornman

'Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.'
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'Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices…and now they’ve become a tool for sexual health research.'

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'Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are one of the most powerful and stealthy engines of racism and wealth inequality our nation has ever produced.'
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'Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World. He spoke to @Jacobin about the intimate links between the slave systems in the Americas and the origins of capitalism.'
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'Donald Bogle’s “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks” is considered the standard text on Black characters in American movies.'

The book that documented, and shaped, the course of Black Hollywood history latimes.com/entertainment-…