African American Culture

Being Black Is the New Awesome

Rebecca Carroll | Posted 10.04.2011

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Rebecca Carroll

Although the economic situation is pretty bleak for black Americans -- the economically vulnerable suffer the most when the economy tanks -- we are ushering in a time when black individual voices are paramount.

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Black Folk Don't Like To Be Told They're Not Black

Issa Rae | Posted 10.04.2011

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Issa Rae

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how "down" I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me, as a Black woman? Unacceptable.

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Kimchi Chronicles Celebrate Seoul Food

Erica Watson | Posted 09.20.2011

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Erica Watson

To some, this rags to riches story reads like a fairy tale, but for Marja Vongerichten is it real life.

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part II

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wayne Trujillo

After gentrification the problems populating inner-city neighborhoods like Five Points aren't solved. They just relocate.

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