The Life Of Poet Maya Angelou, From Poverty To Presidential Prizes
Poet, performer and political activist Maya Angelou has died after a long illness at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86.
View ArticleCondiment Detente: Sriracha Plant To Stay In California City
The Sriracha-slurping public no longer has to worry about hoarding bottles and bottles of the spicy stuff: There will be hot sauce tomorrow and for the foreseeable future. Sriracha will continue to be...
View ArticleThe Late Walter Dean Myers Wrote In The Language Of Teens
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View ArticleCrime Writer Creates A Hero For Her Beloved, Much-Maligned South LA
Rachel Howzell Hall is easing her big, laurel green Mercedes sedan through the streets of Los Angeles. A slim woman with big eyes, Hall says this Benz is her dream car, the thing she'd planned to buy...
View ArticleAye, Sassenach — Gabaldon's Appeal Is Timeless
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View ArticleObama's Reaction To Ferguson Raises Questions About President's Role
Ferguson, Mo., has seen nearly two weeks of protests after an unarmed 18-year-old African-American man was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. This week, a black leader stepped in...
View Article'A Chosen Exile': Black People Passing In White America
Several years ago, Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs was talking with a favorite aunt, who was also the family storyteller. Hobbs learned that she had a distant cousin whom she'd never met nor heard...
View ArticleComer Cottrell, Creator Of The People's Jheri Curl, Dies At 82
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View ArticleThe Look Of Power: How Women Have Dressed For Success
Remember power suits? At the same time women were entering the corporate workplace in large numbers, the power suit began to pop up. It was usually a long jacket with the kind of big, padded shoulders...
View ArticleA Black Cosmetic Company Sells, Or Sells Out?
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View Article'The Banh Mi Handbook': A Guide To A Viet-French Sandwich
Some kids know they want to be doctors or pilots or professional sports players— Andrea Nguyen knew by the time she was 10 she wanted to be a sandwich maker. She says she's been making sandwiches and...
View ArticleBlack Fraternities And Sororities Split On Protest Policy
Thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. Saturday for the 'Justice for All' rally. The demonstration was to protest the police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, as well...
View ArticleThe Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America
The voices in the Whiteness Project vary by gender, age and income, but they all candidly express what it is like to be white in an increasingly diverse country."I don't feel that personally I've...
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View ArticleFor Hollywood, 'Selma' Is A New Kind Of Civil Rights Story
The movie Selma opened to high praise on Christmas Day — Varietysays director Ava DuVernay delivers "a razor-sharp portrait of the civil rights movement." The film focuses on a 1965 voting rights march...
View ArticleStruggling Writer's Debut Novel Gets Coveted Oprah Winfrey Nod
Oprah's Book Club has turned unknown authors into superstars. Her latest selection is the novel Ruby. The book is set in an all-black hamlet called Liberty Township, in East Texas, and is part of a...
View ArticleIn Hollywood, MLK Delivered A Lesser-Known Speech That Resonates Today
Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize and coming back from Selma, Ala., where residents were protesting discrimination and repeated police brutality, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
View ArticleA 'Black Tax' At Charlotte's Ritz-Carlton?
A Charlotte news station reported on Monday that the Ritz-Carlton, one of prosperous uptown Charlotte's swankiest hotels, added what looks suspiciously like a black tax to the lobby bar tabs of patrons...
View ArticleClaude Sitton, 'Dean Of The Race Beat,' Dies At 89
It may be that Claude Fox Sitton so outraged the white Southern segregationists he reported on throughout the civil rights movement because, by all appearances, he could have been standing beside them...
View ArticleA Child Of Slavery Who Taught A Generation
Some great teachers change the life of a student, maybe several. Anna Julia Cooper changed America.Cooper was one of the first black women in the country to earn a Ph.D. Before that, she headed the...
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