The Tocobaga Indians were natives of the Tampa Bay area from around the years 900 to the 1500s. The Tocobaga people were known to build mounds within their villages. Mounds were large “piles of the earth” layered with shells or stones but also were known to be used as a burial site. In 1879, just before construction destroyed many traces…
The Mount Zion AME Zion Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. launched his civil rights career, will now be a museum. Mount Zion AME Zion Church in Montgomery, Alabama, was first approved for a $500,000 grant in 2018. Leaders originally planned to turn the space into a museum and open it to the public by 2020, the Associated Press (AP) reports. But the…
The Disney Channel Movie, Spin features its first movie with an Indian American main character. Spin follows the main character, Rhea, as she reaches for her dreams to become a DJ but deals with being torn between her family and social life. At her family-owned restaurant during her shift, she also plays her self-made mixes for the customers to enjoy.…
An Anne Frank Center is opening at the University of South Carolina, which will be the first museum in North America and the fourth in the world where visitors can walk through the famed story of the teenage Holocaust victim. “The Anne Frank Center at USC is unlike anything the university has ever done before,” interim university president Harris Pastides…
Propeller’s 2021 Impact Accelerator program features four Black food entrepreneurs navigating the consumer-packaged goods industry. The consumer-packaged-goods industry has grown considerably since the start of the pandemic, as eating habits shifted away from dine-in food service to meals prepared and eaten at home. The focus on consumer-packaged goods follows propeller’s recent food manufacturing partnership with Greater New Orleans, Inc., Edible…
Archaeologists surveying a Civil War cemetery in northern Virginia have chanced upon a surprising find: a buried pathway from the 1800s. As Mark Price reports for the Charlotte Observer, researchers from the Northeast Archeological Resources Program (NARP) uncovered the 19th-century road—as well as a brick-lined culvert—at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military Park. The team was using ground-penetrating radar and magnetometer surveys to identify a suitable location for…
A new plaque facing the White House bears witness to a shameful chapter in United States history: when enslaved people helped build one of the nation’s seats of government. Unveiled in a ceremony last week, the sign is one of three informational markers that now stand at the northern entrance of Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Conceived by the White House Historical…
For “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, the inspirations for art and philanthropy are inextricably linked. On Wednesday, Miranda is announcing a series of donations to organizations that serve immigrants, whose experiences are central to the new film version of his hit Broadway musical “In the Heights.” “For me,” Miranda told The Associated Press, “philanthropy and artistic inspiration kind of come from the same…
According to deadline.com, the story of Charles “Charlie” Wiggins, the most famous African American race car driver of the 1920s and 1930s, will be told in the feature film Eraced. Producing partners on the film will include racing brands Firestone and IndyCar. Eraced will chronicle the victories and struggles of the once-legendary-now-little-known Charlie “Speed King” Wiggins, who worked his way from shoeshine to mechanic to star racer…
A fund formed in response to the deadly racial violence four years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, said Thursday it will award $3 million in grants to more than three dozen groups and sites nationwide to help preserve landmarks linked to Black history. Recipients of money from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund include a consortium of civil rights sites and Black…
The company behind Ntwrk, an app that sells limited-edition merchandise during live-streamed videos often hosted by celebrities, has hired its first chief marketing officer and is planning its first major ad campaign. Ntwrk executives want to raise awareness of the app and its live-stream shopping experience, said Jason Brown, the newly named CMO at Ntwrk, which is operated by Commerce Media Holdings LLC. Founded…
Group Black Inc., a collective aimed at deepening the pipeline of Black-owned media companies, launched Tuesday with an ad-spending target of $75 million from a WPP PLC unit. The new collective and business accelerator seeks to attract ad spending from marketers that are trying to diversify where they advertise. Group Black aims to advise advertisers and agencies on possible media plans with…