All works of art pictured in this article are available for viewing in the exhibition. On Sunday, April 10 of this year, Washington’s National Gallery of Art opened the touring Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition to the viewing public. The six-part showing, which originally opened in 2018 as Histórias Afro-Atlânticas at Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São […]
I am so excited about sharing this story! Why, might you ask? I’m excited because this is a story that shines the light on success at its best! It’s a story about a little Black girl full of intelligence and spunk who I watched grow into an incredible, beautiful, and awesome woman. Her name is
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” said Justice Samuel Alito in a leaked initial draft of the opinion of the supreme court on the overturning of Roe vs Wade. The overturning of the long held landmark case would mean that abortion rights–a person’s
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Megan Thee Stallion Shares Details of 2020 Shooting and Her Mental Health Battles in Latest Interview On July 12, 2020, news of Megan Thee Stallion’s reported shooting following an alleged altercation with Canadian rapper Daystar Peterson, popularly known as Tory Lanez, filled earlier morning news and replayed across many social media platforms. While news of this
Artist Shares Their Queer Identity Journey on The Red Table Talk Electrifying multi-hyphenate singer, songwriter and actress Janelle Monáe has come out as nonbinary. On the internet’s newest obsession “The Red Table Talk,” an online talk show hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Andrienne Norris, Monáe opened up about her gender identity being
I arrived at about 4:05 p.m., already a few minutes late, at the corner of Maryland Avenue SW, peeking around each corner to find a sufficient parking spot. Frustrated, I drove around in circles, rather squares, to find a parking space that didn’t have one of those famous confusing parking signs that allow for 2-hour
Ariana Debose is showing the world just what a young Black Queer woman is capable of with her historic Oscar nomination and win. The second woman to win an Oscar for the same role, Debose took home the award for best supporting actress for her role as Anita in Stephen Spielberg’s “West Side Story” Sunday,
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In the United States, where more than forty million Black people are represented by the measly eleven percent of Congress and three percent of the Senate that’s Black, representation matters. At a glance, it might seem acceptable for just eleven percent of Congress to represent just thirteen percent of Americans. A closer look leads one
His criticism of diversity trainings is uniform to his criticism of critical race theory and the Black Lives Matter movement, both of which he also finds divisive and destructive. In his view, several of the most prominent efforts that claim to address and combat social injustice actually only seek to spread divisive, ahistorical, anti-American, and
At the intersection of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, this post will discuss and celebrate the representation of women leadership in Learning and Development, setting an example of how leadership can and should reflect diverse population. March is dedicated to highlighting and reflecting on the often-overlooked contributions and milestones of women to United
