She was crazy. Until very recently, that was all most of us knew about Louise Little, mother of Malcolm Little, aka Malcolm X and later, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written with Alex Haley, we learned that she suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to a mental institution after her…
Jeen-yus: A Kanye Trilogy is a documentary that follows two decades in the life of the artist formerly known as Kanye West, Yeezy, and now legally known as Ye, American music producer, rapper and fashion designer. There is not much I need to say about him. Ye speaks for himself under his many names, professions…
The stained cotton sack dates back to the mid-1800s. From 2016 to 2021, it was displayed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, on loan from Middleton Place, a historical landmark in South Carolina. According to the description embroidered on the sack by a Ruth Middleton in 1921: “My great grandmother Rose…