State of Delaware: Cultural Affairs division celebrates Black history. “During the month of February 2021, the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs will be offering three virtual programs streamed live on the Web. Two of these programs will be presented in commemoration of National African American History Month, an annual observance celebrating the invaluable […]
ABC7: Local online website designed to help Black-owned business expands nationwide. “Spicy Green Book started out showing businesses in Orange County, but now the website is a national online guide featuring 185 Black-owned businesses in 23 states including Ontario, Canada. And now, there’s an app to go along with it.”
Bay State Banner: Parks Service compiling online database of 54th Regiment soldiers, officers. “The effort has collected the names and details of over 1,500 men who served with the volunteer 54th Massachusetts Regiment between 1863 and 1865, when the Civil War ended. Data listed include the men’s age, enlistment and mustered-out dates, place of enlistment, […]
NPR: Black Doctors Use Social Media To Share Accurate Information About COVID-19 Vaccine. “About a quarter of the American public is hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine. That number goes up to a third of Black Americans, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll last month. The hesitancy is rooted in real mistreatment and fanned […]
Black Enterprise: Ebony Magazine Purchased By Former NBA Player Ulysses ‘Junior’ Bridgeman For $14 Million . “The famed EBONY magazine may be on the verge of resurrection. According to The Chicago Tribune, it may have a new owner in former NBA basketball player Ulysses ‘Junior’ Bridgeman. Bridgeman’s company, Bridgeman Sports and Media, has emerged as […]
CNN: Analysis: More Black people need to be part of Covid-19 vaccine trials. Here’s why I participated. “Dr. Kenneth Kim, the medical director and chief executive officer of Ark Clinical Research, says his office will administer shots to about 200 people in the trial and then follow up with them to learn how their bodies’ […]
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Coronavirus takes toll on Black, Latino child care providers. “Policy experts say the U.S. spends a small fraction of federal funds on child care compared to other industrialized nations, an underfunding exacerbated by COVID-19. Soon nearly half of the child care centers in the U.S. may be lost, according to the […]
The Root: CDC’s New Numbers Show Black Americans and Other People of Color Dying at Higher Rates From COVID-19 Than It Previously Reported. “After initially saying that Black Americans are dying at about two times the rate of their white counterparts from COVID-19, the CDC has updated its publicly reported figures to show that the […]
Nice, some of these I didn’t know about. Axios: Recreating racism in VR to fight real racism. “New virtual and ‘augmented’ reality technology is allowing users to experience 1960s civil rights marches, the agony of segregation for Black Americans, or life in a Japanese American internment camp.”
New York Times: The New Influencer Capital of America. “It’s no secret Atlanta is one of the nation’s great culture capitals, home to many power brokers in music, fashion and the arts — a city that, since the 1980s, has produced some of the biggest names in rap, R&B and hip-hop, and over the last […]
Pew: Social media continue to be important political outlets for Black Americans. “Across Pew Research Center surveys, Black social media users have been particularly likely to say that these sites are personally important to them for getting involved with issues they care about or finding like-minded people. They are also likely to express positive views […]
Mississippi State University: MSU Libraries documents African American legislators in Mississippi with historical, online ‘Against All Odds’ exhibit. “Titled ‘Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi,’ the exhibit documents the lives of over 150 African American men who worked in the state legislature leading up to 1894. The site features more than 800 […]
The State Journal: Locals contribute to new website chronicling African Americans in the horse industry. “Three local folks are involved in a new website designed to increase awareness, education and access to African American history. The website, Chronicle of African Americans in the Horse Industry, is a collaborative effort between individuals, organizations, communities and the […]
University of Virginia: Booker T. Washington Has A New Charlottesville Connection: A Digital Edition Of His Papers. “Booker T. Washington, who emerged from slavery to become one of the leading African American intellectuals around the turn of the 20th century, had ties to Charlottesville that eventually led to a city park being named after him. […]
Washington Post: A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade, a free, public clearinghouse that launched Tuesday with seven smaller, searchable databases, will for the first time allow anyone from academic historians to amateur family genealogists to search for individual enslaved […]