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Help Bring ABHM Home! Museum’s New Space Rises in Bronzeville
ABHM announces its restoration as a physical museum. A $7 million capital (building fund) campaign will enable the museum to be housed on its former site but on the ground floor of a brand new apartment building in Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood.
Read MoreABHM: A Key to Revitalization of MKE’s Historic Bronzeville
Restoring ABHM to the new Griot Building is a key element in the planned redevelopment of a block of abandoned buildings. The $17.4 million project led by Wisconsin’s only female and minority-owned development business, will transform the site into a vibrant mixed-use campus as a catalyst for the reestablishment of the historically black Bronzeville neighborhood’s culture and entertainment district.
Read MoreTech’s Whiteness Is the Problem. Are We the Solution?
By Amy L. Alexander, The Root Last week, Twitter said it was “pausing” to reconsider the process by which it bestows the blue checkmark denoting accounts that had been “verified,” and on Wednesday the company announced it was yanking the designation from some users who occupy the neo-Nazi or nationalist bucket of grassroots white activism.…
Read MoreWhy Music Education is Essential for Underserved Schools
Music education often suffers when budgets shrink, but some argue that it’s critical to build young minds and encourage creativity.
Read MoreRacism is behind outlandish theories about Africa’s ancient architecture
Seemingly, African intelligence and innovative inventions such as the pyramids of Giza, still haunt the psyche and mindset of the narcissistic beliefs that guide white supremacy and world domination. Especially and more so does this hatred and racist behaviors delve into and at, abuse for the bodies of the African; mind, spirit, body, intuition prowess and soul, if allowed to continue its evil reign worldover over. Therories allowed to float throughout the worlds rhetoric unchecked and never validated is sad for those that perpetrate such nonsense and imposed disbelief in the strength and superiority of another culture other than white, definitely perceived as a threat unstoppable.
Read MoreA Tale of 2 Mich. Water Crises
By K. Araújo, The Root On Oct. 23, 12 Oakland County, Mich., communities spent roughly nine days without water after a major water main break. Almost 305,000 people were affected by the break. Oakland County and the Great Lakes Water Authority worked nearly around the clock to ensure that the residents in those communities had safe,…
Read MoreThe War in Africa the U.S. Military Won’t Admit It’s Fighting
By: Bryan Maygers huffingtonpost.com “What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things — especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.” So writes investigative reporter Nick Turse in his latest book, Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa….…
Read MoreBlack Protester Hugs Squirming Nazi, Quips, ‘Why Don’t You Like Me, Dog?’
By Breanna Edwards, The Root The black protester who was caught on viral video hugging a squirming and uncomfortable neo-Nazi outside white supremacist dump truck Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday is acknowledging that he could just as easily have hit the guy (an act in which someone else…
Read MoreWhy TV Writer Angela Nissel, Black Females in Hollywood Need to be Heard
By Yesha Callahan, The Root If you took a look at the writers’ room of some of your favorite television shows, you’d be hard-pressed to find a black person, and even harder pressed to find a black woman. But for the last decade, Angela Nissel has been leaving her mark behind the scenes on shows…
Read MoreSomebody lied: Education alone can’t dismantle white supremacy
By: Andre Perry: hechingerreport.org Americans like to think that if individuals are educated in great schools, they can pull themselves up by their proverbial bootstraps and bring their families with them. No matter if obstacles such as bad policing, weak labor markets and discriminatory housing policies litter our path. We believe that a good education can…
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