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A man dressed as Abraham Lincoln read the Gettysburg Address aloud. The Sons of Union Veterans gave a black-powder rifle salute. Hundreds of visitors attended the Memorial Day event at Eugene’s ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. There has always been something deliberate and quietly ...
Nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Black American tailoring and the legacy of the Black dandy. Inspired by scholar Monica L. Miller’s groundbreaking book Slaves to Fashion: Black ...
The 2025 Met Gala dress code is "Tailored for You," a nod to the museum's "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" Costume Institute exhibit, which will be on public view from May 10 to Oct. 26.
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, BLACK ENTERPRISE has pulled together a list of Black films that spotlight maternal resilience and beauty. These aren’t just movies, they’re windows ...
May 25 marks five years since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a White police officer in Minneapolis. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was found guilty on charges of murder and ...
The Met Gala returned for 2025 in New York City, with a spotlight on Black style and tailoring. Here's what to know about this year's theme explained. Much of the buzz around fashion's biggest ...
In a Black American context, we’ve seen with the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and Jim Crow, it was a vehicle for political stance because of the confinement of Black people ...
But there’s a reason why Black folks, Catholic or not, should care about this: The new pope is Black.
While this process is held in secrecy, the rest of the world is informed on the group's daily decisions by white or black-colored smoke funneled from the top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke ...
Tradition holds that black smoke indicates the cardinals have not yet agreed on a new leader, while white smoke signals that a new Pope has been elected. But what kind of smoke is it exactly?
The writing was on the wall for Bud Black: 7-33. So, after weeks of speculation, the Rockies fired their manager on Sunday amid the ballclub’s historically bad start to the season. The Rockies ...