Bloomingdale's Lays Out Welcome Mat To Chinese Shoppers
A number of luxury retailers are rolling out tactics this year to mark the beginning of the Lunar New Year. For Bloomingdale's in New York City, though, reaching out to Asian shoppers during the...
View Article1963 Emancipation Proclamation Party Lacked A Key Guest
Fifty years ago, the White House was the site of an unusual party.It was a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation's centennial, held on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and many of the guests were...
View ArticleGangsta Rap Swap Meet Proprieter Wan Joon Kim Has Died
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View Article'American Winter' Families Struggle To Survive Fall From Middle Class
It's a visual no parent wants to picture: a child describing what it's like to live in a house with no power for lights, heat or cooking. For many middle-class American parents, it's hard to imagine...
View ArticleDumbfoundead: A Rising Star In A Genre In Transition
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View ArticleHistory Makes Hiring Household Help A Complex Choice
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View ArticleBarrier-Breaking Surfer's Legacy A Reminder Of Work To Do
The Saturday morning fog was burning off above the part of Santa Monica's beach known as the Inkwell. It's the stretch of sand to which black Southern Californians were relegated by de facto...
View ArticleMoynihan Black Poverty Report Revisited Fifty Years Later
On Wednesday, the Urban Institute released a new report that revisits a famous study conducted almost 50 years ago by the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The original study, "The Negro Family: The...
View ArticleActor James Gandolfini Dies Suddenly While On Vacation
The 51-year-old actor died on Wednesday in Rome. Reports attribute his death to a heart attack. Gandolfini had been a character actor for years before he was given a chance to read for Tony Soprano in...
View ArticleWith Fla. Verdict, Is Protective Clothing Still Required?
"I'm ashamed at how long it took me to realize why so many people in my family have been consumed with looking church-ready when they step out the door regardless of time or day."That Facebook quote...
View ArticleNational Reaction To The Zimmerman Verdict: 'What Next?'
The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin is reverberating far beyond Florida. On Sunday, President Obama acknowledged the strong passions the verdict has incited. He...
View ArticleBlack Americans Welcome Obama's Entry To Race Discussion
As soon as he made his remarks on race Friday, President Obama was part of an intense conversation around the nation.In dozens of cities across the country on Saturday, protesters held coordinated...
View ArticleUnivision Clips 'Tweety's' Wings
If you drive anywhere in greater Los Angeles, you know that you spend a significant amount of time staring at the bumper of the car ahead of you. And you may have noticed that a lot of those bumpers...
View ArticleKey Witness Against Emmett Till's Killers Led A Quiet Life
Willie Louis may be one of the most celebrated but least-known figures in a pivotal point in American history: He testified against the men accused of kidnapping and murdering 14-year-old Emmett Till....
View ArticleAmusement Parks And Jim Crow: MLK's Son Remembers
In this three-part series, Karen Grigsby Bates talks with children of Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to see how they've coped with the burden and privilege of their...
View ArticleKilled For Taking Part In 'Everybody's Fight'
For the past few months, NPR has been commemorating the monumental summer of 1963 by looking at watershed moments in the civil rights movement. In this three-part series, Karen Grigsby Bates talks with...
View ArticleMedgar Evers' Son Honors Civil Rights Icon In His Own Way
James Van Dyke Evers was only 3 when his father, Medgar, was assassinated in the driveway of the family's home in Jackson, Miss., in June 1963.A sniper shot Medgar Evers in the back as he returned from...
View ArticleWhile Unsung in '63, Women Weren't Just 'Background Singers'
On that sweltering August day in 1963, almost a quarter-million people thronged the National Mall, from the Washington Monument to the columned marble box that is the Lincoln Memorial.
View ArticleHarlem On Their Minds: Life In America's Black Capital
The poet Langston Hughes liked to wryly describe the Harlem Renaissance — the years from just after World War I until the Depression when black literature and art flourished, fed by an awakening racial...
View ArticleAt Fashion Week, Color Pops And Models Call For Diversity
Color continued to be a big deal on the New York runways during Fashion Week this week, but almost all the color was represented by the clothes being showcased in the new collections and not the models...
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