How Billy Crystal's Uncle and Billie Holiday Made Black Music History with a Protest Song About Lynching (Exclusive)

"A White Jewish producer, and the greatest Black jazz singer of all-time, and an all-Black band, working together to produce ...

Celebrate Black History Month in Milwaukee through these art events

From a ceramics workshop to a Frederick Douglass musical, here are ways to celebrate Black History Month in Milwaukee through ...

‘Which Side Are You On?’: American protest songs have emboldened social movements for generations, from coal country to Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long ...
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23 Films That Will Teach You About Black History

“Hidden Figures” is the powerful true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and ...
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The history of tomatoes & why eating them was considered dangerous

In this video, I dig into the wild and surprising history of tomatoes — from being feared as poisonous in Europe to becoming ...

Bruce Springsteen’s Song About Minneapolis Follows a Long Tradition of Protest Songs—Here Are the 10 Most Powerful

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...
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Awaiting ‘False Prophets’!

In times of transition, when everything is in flux as uncertainty and apprehension prevail, bewildering the mind and rendering it incapable of processing the strange and uncanny hotchpotches popping ...
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The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part

The documentary, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces years of alliance and rupture — but its false binary perpetuates ...

NHS deficiency warning with key signs of 'noticeable heartbeats' and 'paler than usual skin'

Restless leg syndrome, food tasting strange and a sore tongue are also potential signs of the deficiency ...

In ‘Black and Jewish America,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores a rich, complicated relationship

America: An Interwoven History,“ the latest piece of the Henry Louis Gates Jr. documentary empire, doesn’t merely honor this ...
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New PBS docuseries examines the ‘interwoven history’ of Black and Jewish Americans

(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.

'Black and Jewish America' compiles an illuminating history of intersection

PBS' four-part documentary on the Black and Jewish experience in America, presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines how the two groups intersect with one another and the rest of the world.