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 StudentsBy Ava Wallace September 12, 2020 at 7:45 p.m. EDT The newly minted 2020 U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka wore seven different masks for her seven matches this year in New York, each sporting the name of a victim of violence. Osaka, who was born to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, has fielded questions for two weeks about…
Read More U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka let her masks do the talking.By Chris Richards September 12, 2020 at 2:15 p.m. EDT During “Funky Kingston” — that golden-hot sunbeam of a song that Toots and the Maytals first dropped in 1973 — the word “reggae” becomes a sort of hyper-noun: a person, a place and a thing. Hibbert died in Kingston on Friday, 9/11/20, at 77. Read more HERE and HERE.
Read More Toots Hibbert helped give reggae its name, its sound, and its enduring graceBecause much cancer research and clinical trials have been based on white populations, efforts to explore the ways race and ethnicity influence disease are underway. By Emma Goldberg Sept. 11, 2020 The Genome Center’s two-year-old initiative, called Polyethnic-1000, is aimed at closing the knowledge gap that exists largely because decades of genetic studies focused mainly on white patient…
Read More Cancer Projects to Diversify Genetic Research Receive New Grants