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Pride and Passion: The African-American Experience, A Traveling Exhibit Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball barrier-breaker Jackie Robinson, will be the featured MVP on Sunday at Opening Day festivities for "Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience," a traveling exhibit that will be on display at the Highland Park Public Library on Oct. 1st in Chicago. "Pride and Passion" was installed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1997 and updated in 2006, reported the Chicago Tribune. ...

The curious obsession with the #BrownTwitterBird Does blackness translate online? ...

Study: African American Couples More Likely To Share Core Religious Beliefs African American couples are more likely than other groups to share core religious beliefs and pray together in the home -- factors that have been linked to greater happiness in marriages and relationships, according to a study released Tuesday. Researchers reported a significant link overall between relationship satisfaction and religious factors for whites, Hispanics and African Americans. The study appears in the August issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. True to the ...

Philadelphia Hat-maker Honored at Smithsonian Mae Reeves, now 97 and living in a retirement home in Darby, has for more than 50 years, until 1997 when she retired at 85, ran her own store. Her first store was on South Street and later on North 60th Street. She was one of the first women in the 1940s who had enough drive and the bank loans to start their own business. Especially not Black women. Or even women who designed and made millinery in Philadelphia. Her daughter, Donna Limerick had nominated her because she always believed ...

Talib Kweli and the demise of the conscious rapper Conscious rap is disappearing. Taking its place? Emo rap of Drake and Kid Cudi. ...

Home awaits Lauryn Hill Is the musical genius really coming back? ...

'My Nigga': Musings on the Celtics and Black authenticity Hip Hop no longer needs a cultural censor. ...

White police officer with cornrows: No, it's not OK Thomas Strain, a white police officer in the predominantly Black 35th district in Philadelphia, was ordered off the streets and made to take a desk job. Which clearly is an insult. He'd been on the force for five years, with a clean record, so naturally, people wondered why. Well, according to sources in the department who wanted to remain nameless, it was because he had cornrows. ...

If Oprah can love Jay-Z, so should you People say Oprah's ratings are dropping but pulling guests like Whitney Houston and Jay- Z means she's capturing another demographic and essentially reinventing herself. It's yet to be seen if she'll continue on this pop culture kick. ...

Ava Fredericks: Just call me an American If you are white, you are considered American. But I am not. I always have the subtitle of African American, am always thought of as being dark first. Will I live to see the day I'll be thought of simply as an American? ...