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08/20/2022

Launched in August 2011, Black Philanthropy Month was a global, public awareness initiative to raise the visibility of Black giving both past and present.

03/11/2022

On this day in 1913, Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, one of the most inspiring people I’ve ever known and a beloved protagonist in The Warmth of Other Suns, was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
As a sharecropper’s wife, she stood up to the overseer to defend her family, an act that could have cost her her life. When a relative was nearly beaten to death over a false accusation, she and her family escaped to Milwaukee and Chicago during the Great Migration.

Getting to know her was one of the joys of my life and a defining aspect of my devotion to telling the stories of everyday people whose lives rarely make the headlines. I talked with more than 1,200 people to find the three protagonists in Warmth. I felt an immediate connection from the moment I met Ida Mae — Mother Gladney as I called her — drawn as I was to her generous and indomitable spirit.

One of the first things she told me: “I used to hate picking cotton. I hated the field. I couldn’t pick a hundred pounds to save my life.” She was signaling that just because people are consigned to the subordinate caste and the drudgery of their lot, does not mean they’re suited for it.
Later, we traveled to Mississippi, and, as I drove along acres of cotton, she told me to stop so we could pick some. I hesitated, given that it was someone else’s cotton. “Oh, they won’t care what little bit we pick,” she assured me, and jumped out of the car.
She leaned over the low cotton and showed me how she had plucked the bolls decades before. She hated picking cotton when forced to do it. Now that she didn’t have to, she relished the moment.
She sadly did not live to see The Warmth of Other Suns debut in 2010. But after it came out, a Black priest interviewing me for public television was convinced the three protagonists had chosen me, not the other way around.
“She didn’t go into the cotton to pick it for herself,” he said. “She already knew how to pick cotton. She did it so you could see it. She knew you would need to know so that you could write the book. She did it for you.”

In honor of Ida Mae Gladney and all of the survivors of Jim Crow….

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A new study — "Who’s At The PrimeTime Table" — reveals that Black women — especially older Black women — are sorely unde...
12/23/2021

A new study — "Who’s At The PrimeTime Table" — reveals that Black women — especially older Black women — are sorely underrepresented as hosts, contributors and experts during the coveted primetime hours at the three major cable news networks.

12/21/2021

in 1865, the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, was officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution—246 years after captive Africans landed at Jamestown, Virginia, and were enslaved. The 13th Amendment stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime whereof the part shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

The 13th Amendment completed what free and enslaved African Americans, abolitionists, and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 set in motion. Freedom meant different things to different people, but one thread ran throughout—autonomy.

After slavery, African Americans acted on visions of freedom in their everyday lives. Certain expressions rose to the surface. People claimed their families. Mother, uncle, cousin brother—all were brought in as kin and held close. People claimed their dignity. Using clothing, photography, manners, or speech, they displayed who they really were. People claimed the land they had brought into production. Finally, they claimed the freedom to move whenever and wherever they wanted.

Learn more in our Searchable Museum: https://s.si.edu/3F2Mvbc

11/03/2021

Exelon announced today it has created a $36 million fund to support minority-owned businesses in the communities it serves.

10/25/2021

The poet, educator, and activist was selected for the $250,000 cash award “in recognition of her ongoing achievements in inspiring change through the power of the word."

10/23/2021

Aiming to build generational wealth for Black Americans, the NAACP has acquired a part ownership stake in the technology firm Hello Alice.

10/20/2021

Dometi Pongo puts focus on victims of anti-LGBTQ violence

10/13/2021

The Civil Rights icon, who moved to Chicago in 1919 as one of the earliest participants in the Great Migration, died Wednesday at his Drexel Boulevard home.

09/22/2021

The new executive editor of the ‘L.A. Times’ rode a stellar career to helm California’s paper of record. Hopes are high that he can ensure its future looks brighter than its tortured past.

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