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Rondae Hollis-Jefferson just gave back to the woman who gave him everything. The Brooklyn Nets rookie celebrated his mother’s birthday on Friday by pulling out his checkbook for the biggest gift imaginable: A new house. In an entry for The New York Post, Hollis-Jefferson recounted Friday night’s life-changing surprise party for his mother, Rylanda Hollis. She said it was her ...

Sienna Brown moved to Murcia, Spain, last year with one goal in mind: Cultivate a community for black people to connect with each other. Brown with help from her colleague, Danni Roseman, created Las Morenas de España — a website which fosters a community of people within the African diaspora who have interest in learning about life abroad. The 23-year-old Brooklyn native, ...

Actor Harold Perrineau has more than a few choice words for critics of his daughter’s role in “Jem and the Holograms.” The “Lost” actor recently wrote an open letter for The Wrap responding to critics who claim the casting of his 21-year-old biracial daughter, Aurora Perrineau as the film’s black character, Shana, amounts to “whitewashing.” Released on Oct. 23, the ...

It’s a concept as simple as it is harrowing: put poverty-stricken U.S. towns where everyone can see them. Through a series of black-and-white images, captured in sharp detail what numbers and statistics cannot, the embodied realness of a place, as it appears to those who live there. Photographer Matt Black does just this in his ongoing series “The Geography of ...

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama on Tuesday will address an audience full of police chiefs here, and a White House official said he plans to praise law enforcement officers for their sacrifices and make the case for criminal justice reform and “commonsense” gun control as a way to keep officers safe. The crowd at the International Association of Chiefs of ...

I can remember growing up, I always had this feeling of being caught between two cultures: my Ghanaian culture and my American culture. At home, I was raised and completely immersed in Ghanaian culture; however it was an American world with all its peculiarities that greeted and surrounded me as soon as I left the confines of my house. It ...

During his powerful eulogy for Clementa Pinckney, the former South Carolina State Senator and beloved Reverend of Emmanuel A.M.E. Church who was tragically murdered in a vicious mass shooting, President Obama spoke passionately to Pinckney’s embodiment of spiritual principles. “We are here today to remember a man of God who lived by faith — A man who believed in things ...

The black dad that you don’t think exists falls asleep with his son on his chest after rocking him for what felt like forever. His wife transfers the baby from his arms to the crib and coaxes him to bed where he only sleeps for three or four hours. He spent most of his wife’s pregnancy talking about legacy and ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The number of U.S. police officers charged in fatal shootings has hit the highest level in a decade in 2015, new research shows, driven by greater scrutiny over use of deadly force. Public outrage over the deaths of black men at the hands of police in New York, Missouri and elsewhere have spurred prosecutions. Police ...

Walk into the Birmingham Museum of Art this winter and you’ll find yourself immersed in a strange and ecstatic experience, somewhere between an aesthetic encounter, a religious ritual and a history lesson. Hanging from the museum’s blue walls are Haitian Vodou flags, hypnotic tapestries made from satin and sequins and sacred symbols. “They are dazzling, they just shimmer,” Dr. Emily Hanna, Senior Curator ...