Newark artist Bisa Butler is using her “portrait quilts” to tell a new story
READ MOREQueen Elizabeth II and the royal family back the Black Lives Matter movement, one of her senior representatives said in a television interview to be broadcast Friday.
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READ MOREThe remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor.
READ MOREThe 35-year-old is now the most decorated female track and field athlete in Olympic history
READ MORESurvivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, 107-year-old Mother Fletcher, to visit Africa on a documented journey
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READ MORERaven Saunders, of United States, reacts during the woman's shot put final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
During the medals ceremony, Saunders stepped off the podium, lifted her arms above her head and formed an “X' with her wrists. Asked what that meant, she explained: ”It's the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet."
READ MOREPresident Obama will have a minority equity stake in the new venture, which over time he intends to use to fund Obama Foundation youth and leadership programs across Africa.
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