By Yagana Shah 01/26/2016 12:27 pm ET Charles “LaLa” Evans and his wife, Louise, had often spoken about creating a museum for the hundreds of photographs they’d amassed in their decades of marriage. But only when Louise passed away just one month before their 60th wedding anniversary did Evans know
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By Zahara Hill BLACK VOICES 05/24/2017 As a kid, high school junior Jahmir Smith never had a dream college. But for a number of universities, he’s their dream student. The 17-year-old North Carolina native has already been accepted into all eight Ivy League schools and has received 33 full-ride scholarship
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By Zeba Blay BLACK VOICES 05/24/2017 03:15 pm ET A black farmer has the internet talking after posting a powerful message on social media about race relations in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chris Newman, owner of the Sylvanaqua Farms in Albemarle County, shared his thoughts on a recent “Love Trumps Hate” counter-protest
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By Kate Abbey-Lambertz, 05/21/2017 10:31 am ET U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) received voicemails threatening to lynch him and calling him racial slurs after he called for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, he said Saturday. Congressman Green, who is black, played the recordings for about 100 attendees at a town hall in
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by Patrick Gillespie @CNNMoney Raphael Bostic was named president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve, becoming the first African-American regional president in the central bank’s history. Bostic, a former policymaker in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a professor at the University of Southern California. He will become
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Amelie BARON, AFP Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Former Haitian President Rene Preval was buried Saturday after a state funeral in Port-au-Prince, a final tribute to a beloved champion of the rural poor. Preval, who served two terms as president, died on March 3 at age 74. His sister told local media
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By Holly Yan, CNN Mon February 27, 2017 (CNN) Of all the memorable moments at the Oscars Sunday night, Mahershala Ali’s win for best supporting actor marked an especially poignant triumph. Ali is the first Muslim actor to take home the golden statue. And he comes from a sect of
Continue readingMaudlyne Ihejirika @maudlynei | email ACCRA, Ghana — Good riddance Barack Obama. And welcome Donald Trump. Surprisingly, that’s the view of many people in this western African nation, which is 78 percent Christian and 11 percent Muslim. “Of course we all supported the first black president of the United States.
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BY Jessica Schladebeck It’s only been a few weeks since former President Barack Obama left the White House, but presidential historians have already placed him on the right side of history. AC-SPAN survey of 91 historians and presidential experts ranked the Democrat the 12th best leader in United States presidential
Continue readingAnne Harrigan is a resident of Danbury The history of African Americans should not be defined only in the context of slavery. Their history is also full of wonderful people who have added to the greatness of this country. African-American inventors have created many widely used devices in the world
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