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Several historically Black colleges and universities will receive more than $650,000 in grants to preserve their campuses as part of a new initiative.

Romeo + Juliettold a classic story in a new, aggressively modern way. On television, although The Cosby Show, Family Matters, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had left the air earlier in the decade, the new network UPN and the WB were taking chances on talent like Steve Harvey, Tia and Tamera Mowry, and Cinderella star Brandy. Disney's musical remake stepped into this moment of possibility, with one glass slipper solidly grounded in the familiar musical-theater world and one poised to land somewhere wholly new. And, wonderfully, Cinderella never seemed to have to choose a side. Take the p...

Black History From the Year You Were Born By Niesha Davis, Stacker News On 2/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST Each February, Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements, and reflecting on the experiences, of African Americans. What began as a week in 1926 has blossomed into 28 days of remembrance and lessons on the contributions of Black Americans. Many Black Americans come from a lineage of captured and enslaved people who were forcibly brought to the U.S. to build the culture and infrastructure of a place in which they never asked to live. Forced immigration and centuries of cult...

The woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone says she shouldn't be judged by one mistake. Should we believe her?

Jasmine Sanders on the Black Romantic Aaron Hicks, Daniel in the Lion’s Den, 2000, lacquer and acrylic on canvas, 30 × 36". I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDMOTHER in the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago’s South Side, but frequently stayed at the home of my aunt Rosemary Jarrett, my grandmother’s oldest daughter. When my adoption was finalized, my birth certificate and other documents indelibly amended, my aunt became, legally, my sister, a novel relation that would be indispensable, steadying.  My aunt had back then a marvelously fil...