Racism is a widespread issue in the United States, resulting in disparities including access to healthcare, life expectancy and homicide rates for Black men. Despite average life expectancy among ...
A groundbreaking digital exhibition and documentary about Black identity debuted during Soul Basel and Miami Art Week via The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD).
As cultural institutions across the country face growing pressure to avoid issues of race, a major new exhibition is ...
Where you live can be just as important as how you live. That’s the takeaway from two major data sources examining Black life expectancy across the United States, with findings that point to some ...
As an undergraduate, Paula Austin wrote stories about the day-to-day life of a 20-something Black girl in New York City named Alice. A literary reflection of Austin, Alice mostly did nothing. She woke ...
In an era when fast-fashion labels are cranking out items at breakneck speed, some Black-owned brands are slowing things down instead. These designers are rooting their work in history, activism and ...
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