Category: Articles

5-Year-Old Dresses Up as Iconic Black Women for Each Day of Black History Month

Check it out at The Grapevine.

Cristi Smith-Jones's daughter Lola as Josephine Baker.

Cristi Smith-Jones’s daughter Lola as Josephine Baker.

Daily Dead’s Monte Yazzie Is a Fan of Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’!

Read the review at Dailydead.com.

Oscars Tweets: Asian Twitter Dropped Some Serious Truth

LINK: Asians were definitely not well-represented at the Oscars

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Blind Filipino Man Creates Software to Help Others See

Read all about it at BBC.com.

Marx Melencio (left) was blinded as result of a random street shooting.

Marx Melencio (left) was blinded as result of a random street shooting.

Explore African-American Women’s Lives Via the Nat’l Women’s History Museum #BlackHistoryMonth

Read at NWHM.org.

Photo of an unknown sharecropper. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-017112-C.

Photo of an unknown sharecropper. Library of
Congress, LC-USF34-017112-C.

Check out Black Girl Nerds’s #BGNOscarWatchParty Guide!

Check it out at Black Girl Nerds.

Fancy drink recipes included…..

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How This Son of Migrant Farm Workers Became an Astronaut

Read about it at Money.CNN.com.

U.S. Astronaut Jose Hernandez

U.S. Astronaut Jose Hernandez

Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya on How Racism Feels Like Living in a Horror Film

Read about it at Vulture.com.

British actor Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris Washington in Get Out.

British actor Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris Washington in Get Out.

A Haitian Machete Martial Arts Master Shares His Secrets

Read all about it at Neatorama.

The real life Machete….

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Wants Compensation For Her Cells #BlackHistoryMonth

Click here to read at The Washington Post.

Henrietta Lacks circa 1945–1951

This 1940s photo made available by the family shows Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancerous cells from Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Source: Wikipedia