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Born Enslaved, This Black Millionaire Attempted to Colonize Mexico and Aspired to Be the Emperor of Ethiopia
In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...
Scared and unheard – or privileged and profane? Sam Kerr’s character has been on trial
Every day, half an hour before 12 jurors were due at Kingston Crown Court for Sam Kerr’s trial for racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, a black van from Chelsea Football Club would pull ...
Musk touts DOGE transparency but downplays his own potential conflicts of interest
Both men touted their aggressive efforts to downsize and remake the federal government, saying American voters sent Trump to the White House to reform the workings of Washington. Trump has dismissed ...
Christian Science Monitor21h
How Carter Woodson became the ‘father of Black history’
Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and ...
A Young Painter Puts Black Nudes Among Old Masters
Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN17h
Experts Say They’ve Found a Portrait of a Mysterious Businessman Hidden Beneath a Titian Masterpiece
When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...
‘The people’s painter’ left mark in Black art internationally — but shined in NC hometown
Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...
Stars and Stripes16h
From sidekick to superhero
Brave New World,” the movie in which he’ll finally star not as the first Avenger’s sidekick but as Cap himself. It’s been a ...