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Jan 21, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Elena Goodinson |Julius Motal |Briana Ellis-Gibbs
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
World leaders and luminaries were in Washington DC to pay respects to the former US president. After the state funeral, Carter’s remains will return to Plains, Georgia Continue reading…Source link
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
From left to right, first row: Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff; second row: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W Bush, Laura Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Melania Trump, at the Washington national cathedral in Washington DC, on 9 January 2025. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The casket bearing the remains of Jimmy Carter, inside Washington National Cathedral.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Amid an aggressive campaign to roll back diversity and inclusion programs, which could bring a more forceful implementation of the banning of African American history in some public schools, a new book seeks to do the opposite. Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World, released last month, offers American students an alternative way of learning about Black history through images.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Dietmar Busse’s first major US exhibition showcases the German artist’s time in New York City throughout the 1990s, traveling mostly on bike from Harlem to Brighton Beach. He captured names such as Steve McQueen and Gary Indiana on Polaroid, now on display at Amant in Brooklyn until 16 February 2025
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Nikki Giovanni, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 7 June 1943, was a critically acclaimed poet, educator and activist whose work was pivotal to the Black Arts movement and the Black Power movement. Giovanni attended her grandfather’s alma mater, Fisk University, graduating with honors in history and becoming a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Later, she returned to academia as a university professor at Virginia Tech.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Chris Stein |Léonie Chao-Fong |Sam Levin |David SMith |David Smith |Sam Levine | +17 more
Supporters react while watching returns come in during an election night watch party for Trump, left, and Harris supporters watch results. Composite: Chip Somodevilla/Getty/Charly Triballeau/AFPSupporters react while watching returns come in during an election night watch party for Trump, left, and Harris supporters watch results.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Enormous crowds clad in blue took over the city to celebrate after their team beat the New York Yankees this week Briana Ellis-Gibbs Main image: Fans crowd downtown LA before the World Series championship parade. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP Fri 1 Nov 2024 17.33 EDT Jose Lara, a Dodgers fan with a blue beard, makes an ‘LA’ sign with his fingers.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
A protest for Freddie Gray in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, 2015 ‘I want to show those intimate moments that everyone misses and things that I see every single day’ – Devin Allen Photograph: Courtesy of Devin Allen When Two Worlds Cross, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2013 ‘It’s one thing to speak to my friends but I wanted to speak to a little bit of everybody and having the camera was like a key that allowed me entry into the minds of people to find out what’s going on’ – Jamal Shabazz Photograph:...
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Briana Ellis-Gibbs
As Howard University celebrates 100 years of alumni coming home to honor their beloved alma mater and each other, Kamala Harris, a Howard alum, is possibly on the verge of becoming the first Black woman president. The historically Black university’s homecoming marks a century of Black achievement, a familiar celebration for some of the most influential people in the nation. Below are decades of photographs that illustrate the prideful and jubilant atmosphere of homecoming through the years.
