Title: Black Arsenal Author: Clive Chijioke Nwonka , Matthew Harle Pages: 320 In Black Arsenal, a remarkable cultural study, the intricate relationship between Arsenal Football Club and Black British identity is meticulously unravelled, offering readers a compelling lens through which to view the intersection of sport, race, and societal evolution. This is not
Runs by Cheri Beasley, Val Demings and Stacey Abrams both underscored long-standing challenges to Black women who run — and showed their potential. Originally published by The 19th We’re making sense of the midterms. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for election context and analysis. A record number of Black women, most of them Democrats, ran
by Bianca Fortis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Leola Scott recently decided to become a more active citizen. The 55-year-old resident of Dyersburg, Tennessee, was driven to action after her son was stabbed to death and nobody was
US military justice as handed down in wartime Britain was found to be racially biased against black American servicemen. Tim Luckhurst, Durham University Eighty years ago this summer, 150,000 American servicemen were in the UK to support the allied campaign against Nazi occupied Europe. The British government hoped their presence would strengthen the
As with most events held in , the March on Washington Film Festival has two major historical moments to contend with — the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement. But while hosting a film festival amid an unprecedented health emergency is definitely challenging, event founder Robert
NASA recently announced that it would be renaming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the trailblazing first Black female engineer at the space agency made famous by the film Hidden Figures. Current NASA staff say that she remains an inspiration in both the day-to-day operations and the broader overarching goals