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50 Companies Founded by Black Entrepreneurs By Peter Richman, Stacker News On 2/26/21 at 8:00 PM EST The entrepreneurial spirit is a cornerstone of American culture, but history books too often leave out the extensive contributions of minorities and women. In honor of Black History Month, Stacker is shining a light on 50 Black entrepreneurs who made a lasting influence on the business world—and, often in the process, civil rights—from the Revolutionary War to today. The abrupt end to slavery in 1865 following the conclusion of the Civil War freed about 4 million people but left them wi...

Dreams Held Fast: A Timeline of Black History in the Triangle Designed by Jon Fuller From the nation’s first public university, built by enslaved people, to the demonstrators this summer who finally rid the Capitol grounds of its monuments to white supremacy, the history of the Triangle and its major towns and cities—Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh—is inextricably intertwined with the history of its Black residents. Black history is American history, and Black History Week, established as a precursor to Black History Month by the author and historian Carter G. Woodson, was an ...

Two new books, Lauren Oyler's "Fake Accounts" and Patricia Lockwood's "No One Is Talking About This," try make sense of our lives with social media.

By Bob Dickerson If there has ever been anyone that I consider myself privileged to have met, anyone who greatly inspired me by his unique entrepreneurial vision in his passionate belief in economic self-sufficiency that would be A.G. Gaston. He was well organized, had great instincts, understood people and obviously made good business decisions. He was the kind of person who spurred others to action and led by example. He exhibited excellent characteristics like self-discipline, hard work and determination. He was certainly a Black Titan. How many of us can really say that they met, got to k...

6. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) A classic of Soviet-era film and one of the greatest war movies ever made, The Cranes Are Flying is the distinguished masterpiece of director Mikhail Kalatozov. The plot is a parallel narrative that traces the anguishes of war at home and on the front when the German invasion into the Soviet sphere rip lovers Veronika and Boris apart. The filmmaking is overwhelmingly dense in its use of cinematographic, editing and narrative techniques, making it impossible to summarize but a wonder to watch. There is a generous use of Dutch angles, an oblique close up shot, ...