‘The Underground Railroad’ Attempts To Upend Viewers’ Notions Of What It Meant To Be Enslaved
Making the series changed Barry Jenkins’ views on how his ancestors should be described and depicted. Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios William Nash,…
Making the series changed Barry Jenkins’ views on how his ancestors should be described and depicted. Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios William Nash,…
Opal Lee led a Change.org petition with over 1.6 million signatures – endorsed by Usher, Jennifer Lopez, Sean Combs and…
For decades, Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood has been home to a mosaic of ethnic groups. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Robert W. Snyder,…
Photo by Clarke Sanders on Unsplash Denise Padín Collazo, Yes! Magazine Originally written for the April edition of Yes! Magazine…
Stephan James and KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk. Photo credit: Annapurna Releasing. By Redbox Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna…
Indigenous Tohono Women led the Tucson 2019 Women’s March with a show of strength, resilience and power. This woman’s sign…
Photo by Richard Goff on Unsplash Frieda Wiley, YES Magazine (originally posted May 5, 2020) As the coronavirus exacerbates longstanding racial health disparities,…
Octavia Spencer, left, stars in this rags-to-riches tale, along with Blair Underwood. Amanda Matlovich/Netflix Tyrone McKinley Freeman, IUPUI The Netflix…
Crinolines, by design, made physical contact nearly impossible. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Case Western Reserve University As…
Photo by Claire Anderson on Unsplash Amanda Abrams, YES! Magazine (Originally posted in YES! Magazine's "The World We Want" edition Feb. 19, 2020)…