She is long dead, but the presence of Sally Hemings looms larger than life at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the plantation where she was enslaved for most of her life and where a $35 million restoration of the grounds made way for the “Life of Sally Hemings” exhibit—a modest room tucked away in a wing of…
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Netflix is one of the most diverse platforms in entertainment, with hundreds of original titles featuring people of every race, gender, sexuality, and size—both onscreen and off. The streaming giant showcased its diversity last year during a BET Awards TV spot titled “It’s About Time” and a campaign called #FirstTimeISawMe, where black and Latinx talent…
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Democrat Valerie Ervin has traveled a long road to become a candidate for governor of Maryland. If she had complied with one man’s wishes years ago, she might not have set foot on the path at all. “When I ran for the [Montgomery County] Council the first time, a very well-known African-American man, political leader,…
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Before Black Panther celebrated the all-female freedom fighters of Wakanda, real-life black women formed their own type of special-forces unit in Alabama. When a whopping 98 percent of African American women voters united behind Doug Jones, they were able to elect him as the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate in more…
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Georgia Democrats handed Stacey Abrams a landmark win in Tuesday’s primary, propelling her to a shot at becoming America’s first black woman governor. The contest between Abrams and Stacey Evans was bound to make history no matter who won: no woman has ever been the Democratic nominee for Georgia’s top job. Right now, women run…
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After 20 episodes of agonizing half-reveals, we finally learned the real identity of the Black Hood on tonight’s Riverdale. The person behind the mask is either surprising or “duh,” depending on who you talk to. (In my mind, it’s a mix of both.) Here’s what happened: The Black Hood’s knee-deep in committing his most heinous…
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