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Edda Fields-Black, Pulitzer Prize winner and CMU professor, brings personal perspective to history of Harriet Tubman
But it feels really good,” she said in an interview Tuesday. Fields-Black is a professor in the Department of History and director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon ...
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Zendaya Stays on Theme at the Met Gala After Parties
Tailoring Black Style.” After taking the main red carpet in a zoot suit-inspired look from Louis Vuitton, the actor stepped out to an after-party at Casa Cipriani in a piece of fashion history ...
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RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − but there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers
He went on to cast autism as an “individual tragedy” that “destroys families,” while stating that many autistic people will “never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, ...
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Black Dandyism in the Spotlight: 7 Pieces of Fashion History
museums and private collections to find pieces that located Black dandyism at turning points in history. In a recent interview in the basement of the Met, ahead of the exhibition’s opening on ...
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A Brief History Of Black Women In Comedy
Comedy has always been a tool for Black women—an instrument to tell uncomfortable truths, uplift cultural narratives, and connect generations through laughter. But behind every punchline is a ...
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Shorefront symposium sheds light on Evanston’s Black history and activism
Leading the Black History Symposium. First row (from left): Yujay Masah, Northwestern University Black studies librarian; Blanca Vasquez Hurley, Black Metropolis Research Consortium fellow; Rhiana ...
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A Black, all-female WWII unit got a congressional medal 80 years after making history
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — nicknamed the Six Triple Eight — was a predominantly Black, all-female unit that was deployed to Europe towards the end of the war to tackle a ...
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RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers
As an autistic English professor who studies literature and neurodiversity, I was especially unnerved by Kennedy’s contention that many autistic people will never write poetry. It couldn’t be ...
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RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers
In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...
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Proposed amendment would establish three Florida Black history museums instead of just one in St. Johns County
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A newly filed amendment in the Florida Legislature could reshape the state’s approach to honoring Black history. Filed by Rep. Bruce Antone of Orange County ...
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RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers
The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project catalogs 133 collections of poetry authored by autistic individuals, which represents only a fraction of the work created by autistic poets throughout ...