African americans
Ice cream and bourbon at America’s concentration camps
At the Belle Meade plantation in Nashville, Tenn., you can partake in a wine tasting of Gentleman’s Red or Lady’s Cuvée. You can play a round of cornhole. And at its Coop N’ Scoop ice cream shop, you have a choice of strawberry, chocolate or their newest flavor — Krazy Kookie Dough.
After 67 years, ‘The Black Cantor’ finally gets a gravestone
The in-person unveiling for the African-American cantor, Thomas LaRue Jones, will take place in Linden, NJ.
In this classic Jewish children’s book, a Yiddish-speaking dog learns to reject racism
As America continues its intensified reckoning with questions of racial justice, parents and educators are keenly aware of the need to speak to children about race in ways that feel authentic and relatable. The Jewish community can look to Yiddish literature for models of antiracist storytelling that took shape long before the storied alliances of the 1960’s civil rights movement. In one key episode, one of the most beloved characters in Yiddish children’s literature proves himself susceptible to unexamined bias and offers a model of how to overcome it.
What really happened on Juneteenth — and why it’s time for supremacists and their sympathizers to surrender
The oft-repeated tale of Union soldiers arriving in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free is pure fiction.
A remarkable photo exhibit captures ‘a joyful moment’ of Black-Jewish unity in Miami Beach
Andy Sweet’s photos capture a moment of Black-Jewish unity
A police crackdown in a Black neighborhood paved the way for a Jewish resurgence
A discriminatory gang injunction drove Blacks from my Latino and Jewish neighborhood
The chef who blends kosher and soul talks Juneteenth, food as a form of resistance
“There are very few ways we can know the people who fed into our gene pool. But when we eat the same food, there’s this sense of continuity.”
The Democratic Candidates Are Failing Black Voters
Giving “talking point” answers, rather than substantive ones, Democrats are failing to prove that they can help the black community.
When Our School Integrated, We Jewish Kids Were The Only White Ones Who Didn’t Boycott
While all of his white classmates stayed home when his school was desegregated, Howard Lovy was proud to be in attendance.
How Long Will Black People Have To Wait To Be Truly Liberated?
“154 years after the original Juneteenth, it’s melancholic at best. There’s less celebration, more consternation…more frowned reflection.”