Sublime

Mama-spoiled black man, will you mature with me? Culture-bearing black woman, whose culture are you bearing?

Atlanta is over 50 percent Black, it is luminous with Black celebrity and iconography, but the unbearable Whiteness of its being—and by that I mean a very old social order grown up from plantation economies into global corporations—still leaves most Black Atlantans vulnerable. No matter how it might look, Atlanta still comes out white as snow.

Dr Moody’s work with the League of Coloured Peoples was quite possibly Britain’s first anti-racism campaign in the twentieth century, and it would have far-reaching implications for Britain’s race relations in the future.

Avenue du Maine, l'ambition ou plutôt le rêve de Jean Mermoz fut de modeler des visages et des torses dans la terre obéissante. Mais pour faire de la sculpture, il fallait avoir une vie matérielle assurée. Du moins Jean Mermoz pensait ainsi. Cette crainte de l'avenir était la preuve même de la fausse vocation. Quand il eut pénétré la véritable, Mer

Anderson was instead invited to sing at the Lincoln Memorial to a vast Easter Sunday afternoon audience on the Mall. She opened with “My Country ’Tis of Thee” and closed with “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.” Harold Ickes, the secretary of the interior, wrote that he had “never heard such a voice” and that “the whole setting was unique, majesti

Despite his passage of the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills, “there has been a lingering reservation in the minds of many Negro leaders whether Mr. Johnson, a Texan with close friendships among Southern legislators, whole-heartedly subscribed to the far-reaching Kennedy program,” the New York Times said. His meetings with the five leaders, the Time

This was not the case with the American Negro slave. He is unique among the black men of the world in that his past was taken from him, almost literally, at one blow. One wonders what on earth the first slave found to say to the first dark child he bore. I am told that there are Haitians able to trace their ancestry back to African kings, but any A

He saw Laurence’s eroding dead skull beneath the earth with soil clustered around it, yet still, in the midst of all this, he was supposed to choose between chicken-avocado and ham and Pret pickle.