Keyword "Black US culture" - List of latest news (44 results)

18:44 Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its culture

21/04 Sinners is a horror film about the highs and lows of the Black experience | Andrew Lawrence

Ryan Coogler’s wildly ambitious period vampire movie is set around the great migration and uses supernatural and real-life horrors to smartly make its point

31/03 Halle Berry says Oscars not designed for black female actors ‘so we have to stop coveting them’

The only black female actor to have won the leading actress award was speaking on documentary Number One on the Call Sheet along with Taraji P Henson and Whoopi Goldberg

28/03 ‘We live in both worlds’: how teachers of Gullah Geechee herbal medicine are cultivating tradition

Classes on ‘hoodoo’ connect new generations eager to explore their roots with elders in the South Carolina community

22/03 The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’

06/03 ‘We’re going backwards’: the Black student unions being defunded on US campuses

Black student unions at US colleges are fighting to stay in operation as state laws targeting DEI initiatives threaten their existence

20/02 The little-known Gullah Geechee politician who pushed for the 14th amendment

As Trump tries to revoke birthright citizenship, a civic group looks to the Black lawmaker who helped establish it

20/02 Laverne Cox’s Clean Slate offers a nuanced, hilarious view of Black trans life

The show delivers a refreshing depiction of the relationship between a trans woman and her father

08/02 How an outsider captured the intimacy of Gullah Geechee life in 13 portraits

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s exhibit at the Whitney Museum depicts the rich culture of Daufuskie Island

07/02 ‘This is Black hair’: technological advances are making waves in animation

Afro-textured hair in animation has long been oversimplified, but new algorithms now capture its true form

26/01 Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned

Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey capped a decades-long campaign to restore the reputation of one of the most significant Black leaders of the 20th century

04/01 ‘It’s buzzing here’: Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay

The tech scene is booming in the US’s largest Black-majority city, with foreign investment and a recent population boost

01/01 ‘We can be weirdos too’: the Black mermaids creating their own fantasy worlds

Mermaiding has gained popularity in the US – and Black mermaids are using the activity to advocate for aquatic safety, raise environmental awareness and connect to African spirituality

25/12 Looking back on landmarks of US Black history from an era of erasure – in pictures

A new book offers US students a way to learn about Black history through images amid a campaign to roll back diversity and inclusion programs

23/12 ‘Let’s all go to Gullah Gullah Island!’: the groundbreaking TV show that affirmed Black kids

The Nick Jr series encouraged cultural preservation of the Gullah Geechee, descendants of formerly enslaved people in South Carolina

22/12 Why the Black American origins of mac and cheese are so hotly debated

In an era punctuated with persistent loss, our culinary rituals are a scrumptious bridge

22/12 The Six Triple Eight review – true story of heroic black women’s battalion fails to deliver

Kerry Washington is the saving grace in Tyler Perry’s plodding drama about the US army corps tasked with clearing piles of undelivered second world war mail

19/12 Why do Black women consistently vote Democrat?

No other demographic has maintained the level of voter loyalty for a party as Black women have – experts tell us why

14/12 How Nikki Giovanni’s Black American consciousness changed the world

One of the foremost poets of the Black arts movement died on Monday but continues to inspire her literary children

10/12 A life in quotes: Nikki Giovanni

The poet, who died at 81 on Monday, was a leading figure of the Black Arts movement, writing at the intersection of love, creativity, gender, race and more

10/12 Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet of the Black Arts Movement, dies aged 81

The award-winning US poet and author of works like Black Feeling, Black Talk and Those Who Ride the Night Winds has died after a third cancer diagnosis

28/11 Not just dessert: how sweet potato pie became a tool of Black American resistance

From the civil rights movement to the killing of Michael Brown, the deep orange dish has gained cultural power in the US – and comforted generations of Black families

26/11 Amy Sherald: ‘Sublimity in Black life can be seen in our ability to persist’

The portraitist, known for her paintings of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is bringing her first major museum survey to San Francisco and then New York City

24/11 The Purists review – a neighbourly chat about race, sexuality and the politics of hip-hop

It’s the actors who carry Dan McCabe’s play about New Yorkers in the music business, which combines gentle comedy and social satire with a rap battle

16/11 Disneyland debuts its first ride to celebrate a Black princess: ‘It’s about time’

Disney ‘rethemed’ Splash Mountain, the log-flume ride inspired by a racist 1946 film, into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure

15/11 As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic review – every image contains some kind of magic

The Wedge Collection, one of the world’s most prominent private assemblages of Black portrait photography – or indeed of any photography – lands in London

07/11 The Piano Lesson review – Washington family get stuck into August Wilson’s powerful play

This beautifully acted film version of Wilson’s play set in 1930s Pittsburgh is powerful enough without the gothic trimmings it gets here

06/11 I’m Charlie Walker review – stereotype-busting sort-of true story of a trucker and an oil spill

An entrepreneur’s struggles with obstructive business and endemic racism are refreshingly free of preconceptions

26/10 ‘A double-edged sword’: The Gullah Geechee people in a complex struggle over land

Residents of St Helena are divided over a proposed golf course, illustrating a wider tug of war over the island’s future

22/10 Georgia dock collapse: witness says gangway buckled from ‘too much weight’

Daisy Hicks, 84, observed victims waiting for ferry using walkers and wheelchairs before plummeting into water

20/10 ‘The ocean doesn’t care what color I am’: Black US surfers reclaim the waters

As a new documentary illuminates surfing’s African roots, Black people revive their sacred connection to the sport

11/09 Frankie Beverly, lead singer of ‘timeless’ soul and funk band Maze, dies aged 77

Group best known for hit song Before I Let Go, covered in 2019 by Beyoncé on album Homecoming

25/08 ‘Dirt bike culture is Black culture’: the organization fighting to legalize the sport

In its mission to uplift Black communities, Baltimore’s B-360 is pushing for policy changes and public dirt bike spaces

13/08 ‘It speaks of heritage’: South Carolina sweetgrass festival preserves Gullah Geechee culture

Centuries-old tradition of sweetgrass basket weaving began with enslaved people and has passed through generations

03/08 The last Gullah sermon? End of an era looms for endangered language

In South Carolina, Pastor Edward Alston is retiring, and Bible readings in Gullah – a unique dialect formed by enslaved people – face an uncertain fate

01/08 Harris campaign has enlivened voters, say Black organizers: ‘The energy is palpable’

Grassroots groups say mobilizing voters is easier after Biden left the race and Harris’s candidacy now gains steam

27/06 A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

Paulana Lamonier started Black People Will Swim in 2019 and has since provided free and low-cost lessons to over 2,500 Black and brown people

28/05 Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – church pews, chains and a carnival queen

From a sticky Caribbean thunderstorm to the cocaine-fuelled violence of the New York street corner, the artist takes us through the highs and lows of his journey to the present moment

21/04 Racist dog whistle: the right wing has weaponized ‘DEI’

The decades-old term is about egalitarianism – but conservatives have turned it into a three-letter profanity

20/04 ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard

02/04 ‘A part of who we are’: how a Black queer magician is carrying on a long tradition

Nicole Cardoza is one of the US’s only Black female magicians with her own touring show, highlighting the Black illusionists who came before her

31/03 Her first visit to wine country was ‘anything but pleasant’. So this Black former techie became a winemaker

Fern Stroud got inspired on a later wine tour in South Africa, so after a pandemic layoff, she started her business, sip by sip

29/03 Louis Gossett Jr: king of Hollywood’s strong, silent types, from Roots to The Color Purple

The Oscar winner was a trailblazer who was happy to share the spotlight – and part of a disappearing class of Black acting nobility

29/03 ‘She’s done it again’: fans celebrate release of Beyoncé’s album Cowboy Carter

Celebrities from Anita Baker to Hailey Bieber – and even a politician – posted on social media, and Uber and Lyft offered deals