Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tenured. Longlisted. Loved. 1/2 of @HearToSlay on @hearluminary #LowerEd #ThickTheBook Repped:@tuesdayagency @goldinagency
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Examining Equity Through History: Mapping Racial Covenants, Infrastructure, and More...
We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.
The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
This company is opening their fifth business in Phoebus. This one is exclusive
Hampton residents know them for their Mango Mangeux bistro, The Hampton event venue, two Simply Panache Place boutique hotels, the Simply Panache Nail Bar & Pedi Spa on Mallory street, and now…
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A thing I like about RVA is being one hour from the first beach and 45 minutes from the mountains. Phoebus is an historically black beach town & the black-owned Simply Panache group is trying to make it a destination.
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Private colleges convinced company to scuttle release of list of projected college closures
A college advising company planned to release a list projecting when specific private colleges could run out of money and close, but pushback from the sector convinced the company to scuttle its plan.
Vibrant new mural at Northwest School of the Arts sheds light on history of West Charlotte
If you occasionally drive past the Northwest School of the Arts, you may have noticed a colorful new mural has taken over the front entrance facade.
Arizona sheriff attacks black 15-year-old quadruple amputee (video)
Photo Credit: Screenshot/ KOLD Recently released video footage shows a 15-year-old quadruple amputee being wrestled by a sheriff at a group home in Arizona. According to KOLD, the Pima County Attorney’s Office dropped disorderly conduct charges...
These Five Provisions Are Necessary in Any Legislation Aimed at Saving Mothers' Lives
No Black woman, regardless of her income, education, or any other factor public health practitioners traditionally think of as protective, is immune to this problem.
Verso
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
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Panel recommends Sam Stein book on more about use and form based planning: versobooks.com/books/2870-cap… #DATUM2019
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Mapping Inequality
Mapping Inequality allows visitors to explore over 150 redlining maps and about 5000 neighborhood surveys created the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. These materials offer an extraordinary window into twentieth-century racial and wealth inequalities.
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Monument Lab is a public art and history initiative based in Philadelphia.
Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy
Brooke Nelson, a graduate student studying online harassment, told Vulture the quote they took issue with had been taken out of context.
Jo Pinto-Coelho on Instagram: “At #DATUM2019 and I fully intend to live here at The Black Iris Gallery and Social Club forever. It’s officially #myhappyplace.”
1 Likes, 0 Comments - Jo Pinto-Coelho (@writesjoanna) on Instagram: “At #DATUM2019 and I fully intend to live here at The Black Iris Gallery and Social Club forever.…”
Function \\ F18: Purple Reign: What it Was Like to Work with Prince
This week, Anil continues his discussion of Prince's complicated relationship with technology, and talks with Prince's former manager Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, and his former web designer, Sam Jennings.
Did arena developers pay people to hold signs at a Richmond City Council meeting? No one’s denying it.
Activists are accusing the development team behind a major arena proposal of paying people who held signs supporting the controversial $1.5 billion plan at Richmond City Council meeting this week. And so far, no one’s denying the payments occurred....
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Did arena developers pay people to hold signs at a Richmond City Council meeting? No one’s denying it. - Virginia Mercury
That means they did it. And that dismissive “hon” to @ChelseaWiseRVA made me see red.
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