Lorna Campbell2 days agoFirst Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation diesverified_publisherNPR - Cheryl W. ThompsonNancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots, died Jan. 8 in Amityville, N.Y. She was 104. Leftenant-Colon died peacefully at Massapequa Center Rehabilitation …
Lorna Campbell2 days agoDjimon Hounsou on battling ‘systemic racism,’ and reconnecting Black people to their African rootsverified_publisherCNNCNN — Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he could not ignore. “I certainly felt a tremendous void, and that void is due to the lack of knowledge of who we …
Lorna Campbell2 days agoBeyond Brown: How the Failure of Desegregation in the North Reveals America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lineslithub.com - Michelle AdamsOn December 4, 2006, I attended an oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., as a newly admitted member of the Supreme Court Bar. …
Lorna Campbell5 days agoMotown Records, Founded on This Day in 1959, Broke Racial Barriers in Pop Music With Its Beloved HitsSmithsonian Magazine - Teresa NowakowskiOn January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever …
Lorna Campbell5 days ago‘Black sheep of the family’? Inside Mbuso Mandela’s past and present troublesThe Citizen - Cornelia Le RouxThe Mandela name trended for all the wrong reasons this week when Mbuso Mandela was arrested in a raid at his late grandfather and iconic statesman …
Lorna Campbell5 days agoRemembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave tradeverified_publisherAl Jazeera - George Charles DarleyJanuary 13 marks 85 years since the death of Matilda, whose name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all’ among the Tarkar people of Western Africa. On a cold December morning in 1931, a short, elderly Black woman set out on a 24km (15-mile) walk from her homestead in Alabama, United …
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