Cacsmy Brutus known as Mama Cax was a Haitian American model and disability rights activist. With her prosthetic right leg, Cax was an unconventional figure in modern fashion modeling. Continue reading Profile: Mama Cax (1989-2019)
The sequence of events that occurred next remains unclear. It is known only that the Igbo marched ashore, singing, led by their high chief. Then at his direction, they walked into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek, committing mass suicide. Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote the first account of the incident. Continue reading Revisit: IGBO LANDING MASS SUICIDE (1803)
Pamela Smith Hudson is an African-American woman and Los Angeles-based mixed media artist whose artistic practice includes encaustic painting, ceramics and experimental printmaking Continue reading Profile: Pamela Smith Hudson (1963-)
David Jude Jolicoeur , also known under the stage name Trugoy the Dove and more recently Dave, was an American rapper, producer, and one third of the hip hop trio De La Soul. Continue reading Profile: David Jude Jolicoeur (1968-2023)
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