Youth draw out neighborhood beauty on Binghampton sidewalks

Rain didn’t ruin the event, but it was in the forecast for Thursday afternoon. Jazmin Miller, Carpenter Art Garden executive director, made it clear beforehand that a little precipitation shouldn’t hurt the children’s fun. “So if it rains later, that’s not an unfortunate piece,” Miller said. “That’s the whole point. It’s there. And it’s gone. But the ... kids walk away with that memory of what they did, of what they created together.” With a high temperature of 97 degrees on Thursday, coolers of cold water were handed out.

Black Journalists And Academics Stand Behind Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones After UNC Snub of Tenured Position

Among her many accolades is her start of the 1619 Project, an ongoing journalism project with New York Times Magazine designed to address the state of the Black community post-slavery. The project’s name comes from the year often referred to as the beginning of U.S. slavery. Hannah-Jones’ 1619 Project received pushback from Conservatives who disagreed with her political coverage, affecting her hiring decision at UNC, NC Policy Watch reports. Due to UNC’s Board of Governors being mostly Republican, it made for a complicated situation.

Greenwood, A Black-Owned Banking System, Partners With Mastercard For New Debit Card Products

When Michael Render, also known as Killer Mike, co-founded Greenwood with former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young and businessman Ryan Glover last year, they did it with the African-American community in mind. The Black-owned online banking system developed “by us, for us” is now partnering with Mastercard to create a Greenwood debit card after only being in business for six months.

The Memphis Lynching That Angered Ida B. Wells Into Activism

“I don’t understand why they would send these…why they would share this?” she posed. I grew angry in my seat rows away, because I wanted to say something. I didn’t. “Don’t you know that they did much worse? Doesn’t she know that they castrated men, burned people alive, and brought dates and kids to lynchings like it was a movie show?” I thought to myself, annoyed. These things shouldn’t serve as a shock to anyone in this century. A lot of American history likes to honor presidents, the Constitution, and other events that make white Americans feel proud to say that they are from America. But we’d all be remiss to forget ugly side of American history: the thousands of innocent black lives lost to the terrorism that were lynch mobs. Perhaps no one understood this more than Ida B. Wells, the journalist who called out lynching at a time where she literally had to sacrifice her life and livelihood to do so.