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Macklemore dropped a scathing freestyle send-off to the former president Donald Trump on Jan. 20 with his 'Trump's Over Freestyle. Listen.

Kamala Harris' ascension marks a pivotal moment in history. Young women say her inauguration may finally allow them to savor what has been won.

Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape Presenters: Lydia Clemmons, President of Clemmons Family Farm, VT Jarrad Nwameme, Moderator: Meghan Howey, Professor in Anthropology, University of New Hampshire  In 1920, there were 949,889 Black farmers. A century later, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, only 35,470 remained. This panel will investigate the contributing factors to this enormous land loss including discriminatory practices, such as the denial of USDA loans. and slow ha...

Committed to Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion PBS SoCal and KCET Announce Robust Slate of Black History Month Broadcast and Streaming Content Share Article Local and National Virtual Events Planned for Upcoming Two-Part PBS Series THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG From Executive Producer/Writer/Host Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. With Goal of Increasing Community’s Historic Awareness and Celebrating Gospel Music (Clockwise from Upper Left: THE BLACK CHURCH “This Is Our St...

Birds of the Northeast exhibit spotlights regional fowl at Fairfield University Art Museum Keith Loria FacebookTwitterEmail 1of17 The Fairfield University Art Museum director teamed up with the school’s biology department to create the “Birds of the Northeast: Gulls to Great Auks” exhibit.Courtesy of Special Collections, Pequot LibraryShow MoreShow Less 2of17 Marsden Hartley’s “Give Us This Day” will be included in the exhibit.Courtesy of Fairfield University Art MuseumShow MoreShow...

Black people tried to tell yall about Trump. So yeah, weve got jokes now. Theres a longstanding legacy of Black people laughing to keep from crying while just trying to survive in a country founded on their dehumanization. The irony of the violent insurrection on the Capitol was not lost on Black Twitter. Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty: Twitter Jan. 12, 2021, 7:01 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 13, 2021, 1:38 AM UTC By the evening of Jan. 6, after a day of breaking news coverage of unmasked and armed sup...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dressed in white and tapping their staffs on the ground to summon...

MONEYWEB LIVESTREAM Happy reading. 00:01  Image: Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 15 books of the year here (technically, two were published in 2019, but I didn’t get around to reading them until this year). The first 14 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Bonnie Tsui, “Why We Swim.” So many o...

In a year that has lent itself to living in the internal world of books, African authors offered up a host of worlds to escape to. Combining the keepers of the literary old guard and exciting new voices, the titles in our list featuring some of the best books by African writers published in 2020 excavate a forgotten history, reflect on life today and manoeuvre through an uncertain future. The selection below is a mix of fiction and non-fiction, essays and poetry, all representing an exciting ye...

The best nonfiction books of 2020 A professor of law at Yale University chooses 10 of his favorites, which range over topics such as Neanderthals, Simulmatics and John Maynard Keynes By Stephen Carter / Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 10 books of the year here. The first 9 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Why We Swim...