The Georgia Museum of Art has received a hefty gift on behalf of a wealthy Black couple.
Art lovers Brenda and Larry Thompson, who have amassed one of the country’s largest private collections of African-American art, are donating more than 100 works to the institution. The donation includes paintings, prints, and sculptures of well-known and obscure [...]
Byron Thomas has decided not to hang a Confederate flag in his dorm room window at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
The 2011 North Augusta High School graduate displayed the flag after Labor Day and took it down just before Thanksgiving, after he was asked to by campus officials because they received complaints. University officials [...]
Cynthia Bailey, arguably the most glamorous of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” shivered in a sleeveless red shift, microphone in hand.
It was oddly cold, but the intrepid model carried on. She had a job to do: interviewing the talent that swaggered down the red carpet for the Soul Train Awards.
All along the police barriers that [...]
Renee Lewis Glover
- Yes, every American should be gladdened by the unveiling of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. The vision statement for the memorial proudly proclaims ”America’s potential for freedom, opportunity, and justice.”
But in the years since the March on Washington, we must look hard at those aspirations. Do we see freedom when [...]
Strapped to a gurney in Georgia’s death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail. Just a few feet away behind a glass window, MacPhail’s son and brother watched in silence.
Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed [...]
