National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. was among several prominent African Americans who said they view the recent $25 million college admissions scam as “affirmative action for the rich” and yet another example of white privilege.
Clearly, the foundational and overarching concern and commitment of Kawaida is life—human and other life and all that is related to the respect, preservation, protection, development and flourishing of it. And likewise, it is concerned with and opposed to all that would threaten, diminish, abuse or destroy life. But to talk of human life and make it real is to talk of actual people. For history and current reality have shown that an oppressor can claim respect for life as a universal abstract, but hate, enslave, dispossess, terrorize and murder, singularly and in mass, actual living humans of various kinds and cultures.
October 3 deadline for Destination Crenshaw’s inaugural call-for-artists, seeks contributions from a wide range of art mediums
Afro-Latino Superstar Amara Le Negra Discusses Colorism, Career and Clapbacks
The outdoor pop-up will feature craft vendors, live music, food trucks, culture and community.
A careful variety of HCBU alumni from the 1940s through the ’70s peppered the storytelling with first hand accounts or their experiences of protest, death and celebration.
And it will and must be a future forged in struggle, and self-consciously committed to human freedom, racial and social justice, world peace and ultimately the well-being and flourishing of the world and all in it.
Hopefully, people will leave, talking about jazz in their communities.”
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas mentions how having the Lucas Museum promotes arts and culture
A rightful reading of history and the signs our times unavoidably evokes concerns and calls for a critical assessment of where we are and…