Two doctors shopped for a summer home 40 years ago. Now their children oversee more than 20 employees at the family’s vineyard and winery. By Dan Holly, Urban News Service A Division of Zenger News When Bassett and Marcela Brown went shopping for a summer home in 1980, the two doctors never dreamed the abandoned […]
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Christian Villagers With Shotguns Capture Islamic Radicals in Nigeria’s Badlands
A small village’s neighborhood watchmen captured raiders from gang wielding AK-47s and machetes, but not before two civilians paid a price for being Christian. By Lawrence Zongo , Urban News Service A Division of Zenger News MATSIRGA, NIGERIA—The five men with machetes were cornered in the dark amid a stand of bushes near the village […]
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Netflix Presents Madam C.J. Walker
By Ronda Racha Penrice Urban News Service A’Lelia Bundles now knows she was born to tell her great-great-grandmother’s remarkable story. Without her three-decade effort to document her family’s entrepreneurial journey and legacy, pioneering entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker might have ended up a mere footnote in history. But it took encouragement from African-American history icon and […]
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Nikki Giovanni’s Latest Poem: ‘Vote’
By Curtis Bunn Urban News Service, A Division of Zenger Nikki Giovanni is 74 years old now, a generation removed from the height of her poetic power. She remains fiery and talented and has a lot on her mind. The author of countless poems that center on love and civil rights, Giovanni wants a new […]
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‘Hair Love’
By Ronda Racha Penrice Urban News Service Matthew A. Cherry’s “Hair Love” Oscar win for Best Animated Short Film on Feb. 9 was a victory for natural hair. Cherry’s film features a young father who, in his wife’s absence, does their daughter’s hair for the very first time. The young dad wears his own hair […]