Since 1985, Lavender Light has invited people of all backgrounds to a space that transcends divisions, building community and inspiring others through performan
‘Intersectionality’ scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw thinks it’s time for everyone to talk back
In a new memoir, the legal expert shares how her experiences as a Black woman gave rise to frameworks the far-right has tried to weaponize.
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The organization Black Men Read is working to close literacy gaps by reading weekly to students and sending them home with books.
The program emphasizes access and representation as key tools to boost reading levels among Black children. https://t.co/cSCRwMDFN6
HBW's 42 Books/42 Years exhibit features one novel per year since its founding. The 30th Black novel, "Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo" by Ntozake Shange (1982), follows three sisters who pursue art and fall into and out of love as they search for meaning and freedom.
The fourth annual Newark LGBTQ Film Festival, which spotlights the work of queer BIPOC filmmakers and honors the legacy of Sakia Gunn, will return on April 30 with a four-day schedule of screenings and discussions.
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“The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates