But let’s be clear: Going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation…
Read More Michelle Obama SaysPlayers have united to depose a sitting senator in Georgia, who has clashed with the Black Lives Matter movement and is an owner of the Atlanta Dream and one of the wealthiest members of Congress. W.N.B.A. players, led by members of the Dream, began wearing T-shirts declaring “Vote Warnock,” a reference to the Democratic preacher running against…
Read More The One Name the W.N.B.A. Won’t SayBy Donna M. Owens Oct. 5, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EDT America’s presidential campaigns have a new coveted voter: Black men. Pew found that Black men (77 percent) are less likely than Black women (87 percent) to identify as Democrats. And according to Gallup, Trump’s approval rating is 8 points higher (19 percent vs. 11 percent) among…
Read More Trump and Biden are both courting the votes of Black men. Will it make a difference?Omari McQueen’s Best Bites Cook Book (due Jan 2021) Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential, Haile Thomas In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean, Hawa Hassan (due Oct 13) Eziban Vol. 1: Recipes Across The Black Diaspora, download…
Read More My Best Cookbooks of 2020 (so far)Amol S. Navathe and Harald Schmidt are assistant professors of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s time to fix payment models that don’t address Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minorities and don’t align with broader efforts to make health care fair. Research shows that doctors are more likely…
Read More Why a Hospital Might Shun a Black Patient (Op-Ed)Kelly Weill Published Oct. 06, 2020 4:45 AM ET The Science Femme, who tweeted from the handle @piney_the, wasn’t any of those things (immigrant, woman of color, female academic), digital sleuths began alleging late last month. Instead, they claimed, “she” was Craig Chapman, a white male assistant professor of chemistry at the University of New…
Read More White Male Prof Allegedly Posed as Woman of Color to Bully WomenOctober 5, 2020 by Naomi Coquillon For Hispanic Heritage Month, we are highlighting a few activities and interactive presentations that kids and families can do to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Americans: Cartonera made by a visitor to the Young Readers Center in 2019. Photo by Monica Valentine. Make a Cartonera: Cartoneras are hand-painted books…
Read More Celebrating Hispanic Heritage MonthEthan Hawke plays the wild-eyed abolitionist in Showtime’s adaptation of the award-winning novel by James McBride. “The Good Lord Bird” is based on the James McBride novel about John Brown. Ethan Hawke stars as the messianic abolitionist and Joshua Caleb Johnson as the former slave he adopts. Credit…William Gray/Showtime Read the review HERE
Read More The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John BrownBy Shelly Tan Sept. 30, 2020 It’s been 12 years since Barack Obama was elected as the nation’s first Black president and four years since Hillary Clinton became the first major party female candidate, but movie depictions of fictional commanders in chief are still overwhelmingly White men. Go HERE for interesting animation.
Read More Who can be president? According to the movies, it’s still White menBy Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli Oct. 4, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EDT ROME — Humankind, Pope Francis says, is in the midst of a worrying regression. People are intensely polarized. Their debates, absent real listening, seem to have devolved into a “permanent state of disagreement and confrontation.” In some countries, leaders are using a “strategy of ridicule” and…
Read More Pope Francis’s new encyclical is a papal warning about a world going backward