American scholar Henry Louis Gates makes his first trip to Bahía, on Brasil's northeastern Atlantic coast, for the start of Carnaval and celebrations of Candomblé, a Brasilian religious tradition that has retained many rites from the Ifa-based religions of Nigeria's Yoruba and Fon peoples.
The Root's Hollis Robbins shows love for poet Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1979-1985), who died on Saturday, February 13, 2010, in Baltimore.
The art world has been keeping busy. From film to photography to innovative projects about sustainability, the [art] block is hot.
I have been so engrossed with the project I am currently working on, that I have not had time to follow current events. Shame on me.
Women's Media Center president Carol Jenkins will be on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric tonight, Thursday, 4 June 2009, to discuss Disney's first African American princess, Tiana, and the underrepresentation of girls of color in popular media.
"I grew up without my father and for much of my life imagined what that relationship was like; to have a father. Now the father of a daughter and son, I am committed to being a dedicated figure in the lives of my children in the hopes that I have done my part to heal the damages many black men and women have experienced due to significant lack of black male fathers and father figures."
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