On Nina Simone's Birthday, Dr. Yaba Blay Comments on Colorism in Hollywood...
Today would have been the great Nina Simone's 80th birthday.
View ArticleStrange Fruit: Poodle Assassin Cosmetics' Brandie Ford ; Violence Against...
Brandie Ford, founder and CEO of Poodle Assassin Cosmetic company, grew up in the ball scene.
View ArticleStrange Fruit: Who Counts as a Terrorist? (Hint: White Guys Don't)
Terrorist.What image pops up in your mind when you hear that word? "When we think of the word 'terrorism,' most people get an image in their head of somebody who, of course, is a foreign national or...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: Meet Gert McMullen, Original Seamstress of the AIDS Memorial...
To speak to Gert McMullen about the origins of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is to go back to a scary, sad time in LGBTQ history: San Francisco in the early 1980s.
View ArticleStrange Fruit: 'Eenie Meanie' Examines Baby Boomer Racism & Louisville Busing...
"These buses came back from the West End with these little kids on them, and they were crying, there were windows knocked out. They had been beaten with baseball bats, they had been called every...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: Donald Sterling and Racism in the NBA
Donald Sterling's racism and punishment were all anyone was talking about last week - so we did too! And to supplement our, shall we say, spotty familiarity with athletic endeavors, we enlisted the...
View ArticleProfessor john a. powell to Deliver Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture Tuesday
Civil Rights educator john a. powell will be in Louisville on Tuesday to deliver the eighth annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture.
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