No Man’s Land gaat over het niemandsland waar ongedocumenteerde jongeren in Amsterdam zich bevinden. Wie geen papieren heeft, heeft bijna nergens recht op. Hierdoor belanden deze jongeren op straat, met alle gevolgen die daarbij komen kijken. De Regenboog Groep schijnt met deze documentaire licht op deze kwetsbare jongeren. Het laat zien hoe zij beter geholpen […]
Today on Echoes Through Time Channel: In 1862, the U.S. passed the Homestead Act, a groundbreaking law that offered free land to pioneers willing to settle the West. Echoes Through Time Channel. source Related Posts Why Not Everyone Supports Black History Month Black History Month originated in 1925 when the second week of February was […]
Today on Echoes Through Time Channel: In 1862, the U.S. passed the Homestead Act, a groundbreaking law that offered free land to pioneers willing to settle the West. Echoes Through Time Channel. source Related Posts Why Not Everyone Supports Black History Month Black History Month originated in 1925 when the second week of February was […]
Eva Longoria returns to television this week in her role on Land of Women on Apple TV+. Longoria plays Gala, a well-to-do New York housewife whose world is turned upside down when her husband vanishes after getting their family tangled in his financial wrongdoings. Learning that some gun-wielding hitmen are looking for her due to […]
It’s been a while since North Texas had a grand musical event geared toward Black and brown people, but that changed during Memorial weekend when the TwoGether Land music festival took over the region. On May 25 and 26, Jason “J” Carter, the founder of Atlanta’s recognized ONE Music Festival, Southeast’s largest annual urban progressive music […]
In a new television commercial set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920s, Cheadle plays a mysterious character committed to getting to the snacks. “We had a lot of fun with this concept,” he told Blavity. “It was collaborative, and I got to work with creative. It wasn’t something that was just jammed in. We […]
Opal Lee, the 97-year-old civil rights activist who was forced to leave her family’s Texas home 80 years ago when a racist mob damaged the property, has now received the same land as a gift. Lee is receiving the land from Habitat for Humanity, which builds affordable housing in communities across the U.S. The Texas […]
Ujamaa Farmer Collective, a nonprofit organization in West Sacramento, California, recently secured a $1.25 million grant from the state to help existing and aspiring Black farmers obtain the land needed to expand their businesses. Black farmers Nelson Hawkins, Nathaniel Brown and Keith Hudson launched the initiative in 2021. According to Black Business, “BIPOC farmers in the United States […]
Land ownership has been the holy grail of financial stability and generational wealth for Black families since post-slavery times. Prime Video’s Silver Dollar Road introduces the Reels family of North Carolina, whose family legacy was jeopardized due to unjust and unfair practices. The 65-acre stretch of marshland known as Silver Dollar Road was the family’s crown jewel […]
The fight to preserve the CPO in St. Helena represents an effort to halt a decades-long process by which much of the Gullah-Geechee land has been repurposed over decades. Most famously, Hilton Head — the South Carolina island where hundreds of Gullah-Geechee people had lived since the Civil War — was converted into a popular […]