By Courtney Robinson and Jennifer Keys Adair | Originally Published at Chicago Reporter. February 27, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Courtesy of The Library of Congress Childhood lessons about black history often overlook important but less well-known figures including (from left) Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, (second from right) [...]
By Adrienne Maree Brown | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. February 24, 2015 | Photographic credit; Millions March NYC, December 2014. By B.C. Lorio. The people dying are moms and dads, kids and teenagers, nerdy, quiet boys and girls. This movement is showing what wholeness looks like [...]
NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy’s 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that “when white people are alone, they [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. February 24, 2015 Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech imploring for wage equality was met with applause by her peers, including Meryl Streep. However, as The Frisky told you yesterday, her backstage interview — which was reasonably referred to [...]
By Mercedes Schneider | Originally Published at Deutsch29. December 28, 2014 In modern America, when it comes to selling a product, the question of whether the product actually works as promised becomes irrelevant. The narrow concern for the profit-driven ends with effectively marketing the product. Sales [...]
By Jim Hightower | Originally Published at AlterNet. February 19, 2015 |Photographic Credit; Chicago Buildings Skyscrapers Sunset (Generic Image) "Reclaim Chicago" has a bold progressive plan to reclaim the Windy City from the one percent. Chicago! City of broad shoulders. Plutocratic hog butcher. Toolmaker for progressive [...]
It's the same question every day except Saturday, which is Daddy-Asher day, a day when cartoons, games, LEGOs, books, and endless questions replace kindergarten drudgery. Kindergarten, literally a "children's garden" was traditionally a place focused on playing, singing, and otherwise imagineering. Today, not so much. Over [...]
The “Student Success Act” is a sham. I detail why in Part 1 of a series of posts analyzing the impacts and implications of the bill. By Benjamin J. Rosenblatt | Originally Published at Medium. February 18, 2015 | Photographic Credit; The Gummere Library. William Penn [...]
By Sierra Boone | Originally Published at ForHarriet. February 18, 2015 | Photograph; Tiana Parker For as long as I can remember, I’ve been getting braids and twists and everything in between done to my hair. In my toddler years my head was a home for those [...]
