Today (9/15/20) marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and with less than two months until Election Day, attention is on Latino voters. One study found that Latinos will be the largest minority group voting on November 3rd. 32 million Latinos are expected to be eligible to vote – which is more than 13% of all voters. For…
Read More Hispanic Heritage Month Starts TodayBy Ovetta Wiggins September 15, 2020 at 3:37 p.m. EDT Two years before George Floyd’s killing forced a reckoning with American racism, Jordan Keemer was in his high school government class in Pasadena, Md., acting as the judge in an exercise that resembled a mock trial. The teen doesn’t remember the topic, or his verdict. But stained…
Read More A Maryland suburb known for a slaveholding past confronts its racist presentUPDATE: Michael R. Caputo, the top spokesman of the Department of Health and Human Services, will take a leave of absence “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family,” the department announced on Wednesday (9/16/20). A science adviser Mr. Caputo hired to help him, Dr. Paul Alexander, will be leaving the department.…
Read More Senior Trump Aide Goes On Deranged Rant (UPDATE)Stanley Crouch, the fiercely iconoclastic social critic who elevated the invention of jazz into a metaphor for the indelible contributions that Black people have made to American democracy, died on Wednesday (9/16/20) at a hospital in the Bronx. He was 74. Read more HERE. One of my favorite writings of his HERE.
Read More Stanley Crouch, Critic Who Saw American Democracy in Jazz, Dies at 74By Kim Severson Sept. 15, 2020 Toni Tipton-Martin, the longtime food editor and writer whose books “The Jemima Code” and “Jubilee” redefined the story of Black cooks in America, will become the new editor in chief of Cook’s Country. More HERE.
Read More Cook’s Country Gets a New Editor, Toni Tipton-MartinLONDON — The Caribbean island nation of Barbados announced this week that it is time to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic. Barbados, a former colony of Britain, achieved independence in 1966 and is today a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with the queen as its mostly symbolic…
Read More Barbados a Republic?TUNE IN: Tuesday, September 22nd @ 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. ETJazz Standard‘s Facebook Live Regina Carter is a lot of things: She’s a pioneering jazz violinist. She’s a MacArthur Genius. She’s the artistic director of New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s (NJPAC) Geri Allen Jazz Camp for young women. And on Tuesday, September 22, she will appear online to talk about her…
Read More An Exclusive Talk with Violinist Regina Carter Discussing Her Latest Album Swing States: Harmony in the BattlegroundConstitution Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is normally observed on September 17, the day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in Philadelphia. OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide…
Read More Happy Constitution Day!BY GOODBLACKNEWS ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 (Photo of high school students by AP/Jaime Henry-White via Creative Commons) Years in the making, the influential College Board is launching an ambitious national curriculum on race with an Advanced Placement (AP) program on the African diaspora, the Washington Post reports. Read more HERE.
Read More College Board Creates Advanced Placement Curriculum on African Diaspora for High School Students