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Journalist. Poet. Truth seeker.
Charlotte, North Carolina, is a city of appearances according to visual artist and Durag Fest co-founder Dammit Wesley -- and this Juneteenth, he intends to call the city’s bluff. “From outside the city, Charlotte looks like a very white place. It looks like a place for soccer moms. It seems like a city where you would like to raise your kids and stuff, but then...
From the gut-wrenching gospel sounds birthed in the Bible Belt, to the "bubblegum soul" sounds of the Jackson 5, the history of Black musical families is a varied quilt, sewn from the fabrics of southern Black culture, imagination and soul.Here are some of the most notable:
Sporting twisted locs and a crisp white tee, gun violence prevention activist Alex King doesn’t tell the same story as the school shooting survivors-turned activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Still, he told Blavity, the gun violence that pelts his West Chicago neighborhood cuts just as deep. The 20-year-old organizer and speaker works with the Chicago...
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