Robin and Andréa McBride, owners of California’s McBride Sisters winery, are two Black sisters who are doing just that. The winery, founded in the early 2000s, is now one of the largest Black-owned wineries in the U.S. Despite not always being taken seriously and often being met with skepticism, the McBrides realized their hard-earned success.…
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Read More Apple Pie Recipes for Apple Pie Day (May 13)Do you like mysteries? Here are some Black female mystery writers you might find interesting. Alyssa Cole Megan Giddings Rachel Howzell Hall Eleanor Taylor Bland Paula L Woods Barbara Neely Grace F Edwards Valerie Wilson Wesley Nikki Baker (aka Jennifer Dowdell) Terris McMahan Grimes Nadine Matheson
Read More Some Authors to Read this SummerBy Hannah Knowles and Paulina Villegas May 15, 2021 at 9:38 p.m. EDT The county clerk immediately knew something strange was going on last fall. A mail ballot had arrived from Suzanne Morphew — a woman missing since May. The ballot didn’t have Morphew’s signature as required, Mitchell said. But someone had signed on the “witness” line: The woman’s…
Read More Man charged with wife’s murder illegally cast her ballot for Trump, officials say: ‘I just thought, give him another vote’BY RACHEL LANCE UPDATED: APRIL 7, 2020 3:42 PM EDT | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 7, 2020 12:30 PM EDT Recently, a doctoral student at Duke University discovered that the oldest known copy of the Bible’s Gospel of John had been physically altered to reduce or remove the role of Mary Magdalene. Some long-dead misogynist at one point hunched over…
Read More How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From HistoryMy question is why can southern states, who lost the Civil War, get away with having holidays and memorials to those who rebelled against the USA? Clint Smith, writing for The Atlantic, says, “I was struck by the many people I met who believe a version of history that rests on well-documented falsehoods. For so many of…
Read More Traitors Celebrated?TA-NEHISI COATES JUNE 22, 2015 The Confederate flag is directly tied to the Confederate cause, and the Confederate cause was white supremacy. This claim is not the result of revisionism. It does not require reading between the lines. It is the plain meaning of the words of those who bore the Confederate flag across history. These…
Read More What This Cruel War Was OverMay marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month – during a time when anti-Asian hate crimes continue to rise across the country. Our guide breaks down the long history of discrimination the AAPI community has faced in the US. Plus, we’ve got resources to help you take action and tips to be an ally in…
Read More Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage MonthGraig Graziosi 5/4/21 A white man who pretended to be his dead mother in order to cast an extra vote for Donald Trump was sentenced to five years of probation after being found guilty. A Black woman, who cast a provisional ballot while on probation but who claims she was unaware she was ineligible to do so, has been…
Read More ‘Two justice systems’: Anger as white Trump supporter who used dead mother’s vote walks free while Black woman faces jail for voting errorBy Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox SMITHSONIANMAG.COM AUGUST 27, 2020 In 1834 there were even more riots against African Americans, most notably in New Haven, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and New York City. The mayor of New York allowed the destruction of African American homes and businesses to continue for days before finally calling out the state…
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