1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (676+ words) Guardian journalism is independent. We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Spades and its predecessor bid whist are ‘Black family heirlooms’ played by Obama and Thurgood Marshall alike At family reunions and cookouts…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (377+ words) Leading assemblage artist was known for reclaiming Jim Crow-era memorabilia as images of Black liberation Artist Betye Saar, the pioneering figure of the Black arts movement, died on Sunday morning in her home town of Los Angeles. She was 99. Saar,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (824+ words) Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain He was one of the most important figures of his time, an author, orator and American statesman who was born enslaved. But some of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1012+ words) The Guardian ‘A counter-narrative of history’: Schomburg Center’s 100 years of celebrating Black culture A Puerto Rico-born New Yorker’s relentless collecting on the African diaspora is still the core of a Harlem institution Growing up in Puerto Rico in the late…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (821+ words) Stew Peas focuses on obeah, an enduring African magic practice in Jamaica banned by colonisers in the 1700s A new movie from award-winning Jamaican film-maker Sosiessia Nixon shines a spotlight on Jamaica’s enduring west African-based magic and spiritual healing tradition known…...

3+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (319+ words) A new South Carolina act will exempt some heirs’ property owners from increased property taxes “The Center for Heirs’ Property, the [Lowcountry Gullah] Foundation and Habitat for Humanity – we’re all walking in the same direction with heirs’ property,” Graves Sellars…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (874+ words) Once Upon a Time in Harlem, completed by relatives of William Greaves after his death, showcased at Cannes In 1969, the pioneering documentarian William Greaves wrote of his fury over the racially degrading stereotypes that white film producers threw up on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (605+ words) The effort preserves decades of student broadcasting as campuses pivot to podcasts and social media formats After Shaw University’s WSHA radio station went on air in 1968, several other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) followed the North Carolina school’s lead,…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (575+ words) Clark was an infant when her mother was arrested. Her debut novel asks what it’s like for children who have only ever known a parent in prison In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (412+ words) Report examines how the effects of slavery and Jim Crow at the county level continue to harm Black Georgia residents A Georgia taskforce has released a landmark report that details the lasting impact of slavery and its afterlives in Fulton…...