A Black family’s home was too close to a White school. So D.C. took it in 1931.
It was taken from the family by the federal government’s D.C. Commission in 1931. Because they were Black. “The Presence of ...
Willamette Week5d
Portland Author Writes Debut Children’s Book Celebrating Family Diversity
Emu dads raise babies all on their own, incubating eggs for eight weeks, but ruby-throated hummingbird moms take care of ...
The Hollywood Reporter19d
‘Purpose’ Review: In Broadway Directorial Debut, Phylicia Rashad Deftly Teases Out Caustic Portrait of Black Political Dynasty
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic birthday weekend in Chicago. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts ...
New York Daily News21d
BROADWAY REVIEW: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ blistering drama ‘Purpose’ eviscerates a powerful Black family
No one else would have had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, theocratic Black family and, in so doing, to chart the price that political parents invariably extract from ...