💛 “The Jim Crow Era Was Never ‘Happy Times’ for Black People”
By @clayrivers
Despite what you may have heard in the news lately, the period of Jim Crow was never nor can it ever be viewed as a period of benefit for Black families.
💛 “The Jim Crow Era Was Never ‘Happy Times’ for Black People”
By @clayrivers
Despite what you may have heard in the news lately, the period of Jim Crow was never nor can it ever be viewed as a period of benefit for Black families.
"I'm a human being that survived. I helped other people survive."
— Stormé DeLarverie
A key instigator of the Stonewall Inn Uprising, Stormé DeLarverie was a mixed race Black lesbian, drag king, entertainer, nightclub bouncer, and community protector.
"A new website from a Pitt–Greensburg history professor presents a trove of original voices from the beginning of Pittsburgh’s experience of the Great Migration — the early 20th century movement of Black Americans from the rural South to industrial Northern cities, which doubled Pittsburgh’s Black population from 1915 to 1930."
"Black Barbie: A Documentary" produced by Shonda Rhimes, will be released on Netflix on June 19. TODAY shares this clip, featuring Kitty Black Perkins, the designer of Black Barbie, and Beulah Mae Mitchell, who worked on the production line at Mattel, remembering conversations with Barbie creator Ruth Handler. “(Handler) would say, ‘Do you have any suggestions?’” Mitchell recalled. “I was able to say, ‘We want a Black Barbie.’”
A VIRTUOSO RIFF ON AN AMERICAN classic: the inimitable Percival Everett retells the story of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, transforming it from a familiar picaresque to a more complex adventure and a meditation on code-switching. A MINUS
Heads up for Maya Angelou night on #BBC4 starting at 9pm BST this evening.
Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspirational figures through an exploration of the BBC archives.
Major publishers sent me hundreds of baseball books when I was the book critic for Glamour and later for Ohio's largest newspaper. I praise five that made it into my Hall of Fame at one of my favorite @medium publications, Beyond the Scoreboard.
Among them: Jim Bouton's inside-baseball classic, "Ball Four," and Kadir Nelson's "We Are the Ship," an award-winning celebration of the old Negro leagues: