Month: April 2019

The northeast corner of 123rd Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem now bears the names of famed acting and civil rights couple Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

Source: Harlem street renamed in honor of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening.

Source: Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings | Open Culture

Note from BW of Brazil: The rise in the number of black Brazilian women having access to a college education has also expanded their study […]

Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Brazil has a race problem, black people don’t have access to positions of power” – Black Women Of Brazil

For generations, successful black business owners faced the threat of lynching. One such example: Memphis’ People’s Grocery in 1892.

Source: How lynching was used by whites to destroy competition from black business owners – Los Angeles Times

As an athlete, if you want to improve something—your 100-meter time, say, or your deadlift PR—you’ve got to apply a challenge, some sort of “stressor,” and then follow it with a period of rest and recovery. Too much stress without enough rest and you get injury, illness, and burnout.

Source: The Equation That Will Make You Better at Everything – Outside – Pocket

But personally, I see nothing fake about this.