Urban Grants 4 UsFeb 241 minBlack History Month's Series: FORMERLY SEGREGATED LOUISIANA SCHOOL TRANSFORMED INTO CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER.The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 may have paved the way for the desegregation of schools in...
Urban Grants 4 UsFeb 231 minBlack History Month's Series: ‘Genius: MLK/X’ Offers Portraits of the Icons as Vital Young Men.“We wanted to take them off the T-shirts and make them real,” said Gina Prince-Bythewood, who created the series with her husband Reggie...
Urban Grants 4 UsFeb 221 minBlack History Month's Series: A Graphic Novel Finds a Relatable Hero in a Modern African Woman.The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.
Urban Grants 4 UsFeb 211 minBlack History Month's Series: The story of Eliza and Miles.The enslaved children were sold and shipped from Virginia to Louisiana with their families in the 1830s, far from the world they knew and...