Category: Racial Justice

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/arturo-schomburg-cookbook

The story that Arturo Schomburg would often tell went something like this: When he was a child in late 19th-century Puerto Rico, his 5th-grade teacher told him that Black people had no history, no heroes, and no great moments. The remark filled him with fury. He’d been born to a Black mother and German father. The incident kindled a lifelong quest to prove the instructor wrong.

https://www.alicerandall.com/about#bio

Alice Randall is a New York Times best-selling novelist, award-winning songwriter, educator, and food activist.

https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/my-black-country-the-songs-of-alice-randall-out-april-12-on-oh-boy-records

Collaborative Album Celebrates the Black Female Experience in Country and Folk Music with Contributions from Rhiannon Giddens, Valerie June, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell, Sunny War, Adia Victoria and More

https://www.masslive.com/news/2012/10/sexual_minority_archives_uncov.html

A century before same-sex marriage, the Gay Pride March and RuPaul’s Drag Race reality TV show, Marion Turner walked the streets of Northampton—dressed as a woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Bullock

Morgan Bullock is an American Irish dancer, known for her Irish dance remix of rapper Megan Thee Stallion‘s song “Savage“, which went viral on TikTok and Instagram in May 2020.^[1]

Holyoke Community College hosts diverse events for Black History Month

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Holyoke Community College (HCC) is embracing the theme of “African Americans and the Arts” for Black History Month, with a lineup of events throughout February.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley

Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960)^[1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Black

Belinda Magnus OBE DL (born 23 October 1953), better known as Pauline Black (Listen^ⓘ), is an English singer, actress and author.

In a music career spanning over 40 years, Black came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the 2 Tone ska revival band the Selecter, which released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and the 1980s, including “On My Radio“, “Three Minute Hero“, “Missing Words” and “The Whisper”.