Menopause: A Gold Mine For Marketers, Fewer Payoffs For Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OH46SoyqA Over the years, many of us women have heard or used lots of euphemisms to describe menstruation: My Friend. The Curse. Aunt Flo. The Crimson Tide. (Yeah,...
View ArticleShawn Amos' Long Road To Old-School Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74vOtS6av8E Shawn Amos had a Los Angeles childhood that was equal parts grit and glamor. He went to private schools and lived in a nice house, but it wasn't exactly in...
View ArticleFrom Football To Opera: Singer Morris Robinson Takes Center Stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIRyEstJKd0 Morris Robinson has the kind of bass voice that reverberates so strongly, you feel it in your concert seat. Listening to it, you assume he's been singing all...
View ArticleA Year On, Did NFL Anti-Domestic Violence Efforts Work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy6gjkICKfk Among the countless ads airing during Super Bowl 50, there will be an anti-domestic violence spot from the group No More. It's the second consecutive year...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali And Malcolm X: A Broken Friendship, An Enduring Legacy
The night Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston, the reigning heavyweight champion, crowds had squeezed into the venue, expecting to watch Liston beat the stuffing out of the young braggart. The odds were...
View ArticleMrs. Obama Saves The Cardigan: 'The Obama Effect' In Fashion
Ah, the cardigan: your granny's cozy go-to used to be available year-round, but in limited quantities and colors. It was considered the sartorial equivalent of flossing: necessary, but not glamorous....
View ArticleTerry McMillan's Latest: Revisiting Past Loves, Rediscovering Yourself
Terry McMillan's characters have grown along with her. So it's not surprising that her latest book — I Almost Forgot About You — is about middle age. Her protagonist, Georgia Young, is an optometrist....
View Article'Darktown' Imagines What It Was Like For Atlanta's First Black Policemen
In 1948, Atlanta added eight black men to its police force. This was at a time when, as author Thomas Mullen explains, a 1947 Newsweek article "estimated that one-quarter of Atlanta policemen were, in...
View Article'I Had To Create My Own Lane': How Taraji P. Henson Found Her Place In Hollywood
Actress Taraji P. Henson has played a lot of characters in her 20-year career, but it took only one role to make her famous: Cookie Lyon, the matriarch of an ambitious, dysfunctional family on the hit...
View ArticleShows With Black Characters Find Loyal Non-Black Fans
Give up. You will never, ever catch up with every new TV show that's out there. There's a reason for that, says Melanie McFarland, television critic for Salon: "There were more than 450 new shows that...
View Article'It's Not Your Grandfather's LAPD' — And That's A Good Thing
Be honest: You're looking at this story thinking what else is there to add to reports on the 1992 riots that rocked LA , right? NPR has done anniversary retrospectives before, including a huge...
View ArticleRemembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100
In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Hers was a Pulitzer in poetry, specifically for a volume titled Annie Allen that chronicled the life of an...
View ArticleOctavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story
Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her....
View Article'From The Mundane To The Magnificent': Photos From The Chicano Rights Movement
Ask Luis Garza how the La Raza exhibition came to be at The Autry Museum of the American West , and he raises his palms, eyes heavenward: "Karma," he says. "Fate. Serendipity. The gods have chosen to...
View ArticleReport Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study, Finds More Poverty And Segregation
In 1967, over 100 cities, large and small, exploded in fire and violence , the result of decades of discrimination against black populations in places like Cleveland, Nashville, Boston and Newark. The...
View ArticleThe Education Of Bobby Kennedy — On Race
Back in May, 1963, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy invited a select group of black entertainers to meet with him at his father's apartment in New York City. Singer-actor Harry Belafonte was there....
View ArticleFor Some Japanese Americans, Border Separations Are Déjà Vu
Third grade teacher Tony Osumi says he, like a lot of Americans, watched the recent news from the Southern US border with growing dismay. The images and sounds of wailing children being pulled from...
View ArticleA Look Back At Trayvon Martin's Death, And The Movement It Inspired
Most of us remember the broad outlines of the story: 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was followed, shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., on the night of Feb. 26, 2012....
View Article'Crazy Rich Asians': Love, Loyalty And Lots Of Money
Crazy Rich Asians is a love story on multiple levels. On its surface, it's about the love between Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and Nick Young (Henry Golding), two very attractive thirty-something NYU...
View ArticleIn 1968, Arthur Ashe Made History At The U.S. Open
When Arthur Ashe won the men's singles final at the first U.S. Open in 1968, he made history as the first African-American man to win the Open. That record holds to this day. Photos show a pensive Ashe...
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