Kayla, 19, and Keonna Davis, 21, are making local history with their new business venture. The two sisters have become the youngest owners of a beauty-supply-store in California, according to the Root.
âOppression doesnât disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.â If those words were not strong enough, I do not know what words would be. Clint Smith III examined the role that the Founding Fathers played in oppressing black people in his new poem âHistory Reconsideredâ which he performed at All Def […]
The Black Panther Party, a revolutionary Black Nationalist and socialist party with a large and radical agenda based around activism of all sorts, is getting a documentary. PBS will air The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution tomorrow, February 16, at 9PM/8 CST. The documentary explores the Black Panther Party by focusing on âits significance […]
Queen Bey literally owned the past 48 hours of everyone’s lives. More importantly though, she used her station as arguably the world’s biggest pop star to address the issues facing Black Americans around the country.
With all of the conversation surrounding the lack of support that Hollywood has for black actors and actresses, especially during award season (see: #OscarsSoWhite), it seems that it may be worse in the United Kingdom.
The New York news station, NY1, is suing the New York Police Department for charging $36,000 to see police body camera footage. A reporter for the news station sent a Freedom of Information Law request to NYPDâs legal office for 190 hours of unedited videos. Four months later, the police department said that they would […]
Gender expectations are a thing of the past, especially when your name is Jaden Smith. His gender presentation has made the official entrance into fashion as he has been crowned as the new face of Louis Vuittonâs womenswear campaign.
The Dominican government has long-standing issues with activists and human rights organizations regarding their treatment of Haitian-descendant residents in the country. Now, they have engaged in a deliberate âethnic cleansingâ of Black Dominicans of Haitian descent by legalizing the mass deportations and the terror-like hunting of Haitian residents in the DR. While many have suggested […]
By Rachel Hill Q: Hi there! Tell the world a little bit about âThe Rosesâ! We are LaToya and Tiffany, a black lesbian couple that have been married for two years. We have an insatiable thirst for wanderlust and enjoy living the expatriate life. For the past three years, weâve called Shanghai, China home. […]
By Jay Dodd Among Azealia Banksâ unfortunately few poignant and meaningful clap-backs is the occasion she came for Clifford âTIâ Harris’s life for defending Igloo.In her 140-character shade, she called TI a coon. A humorously archaic “slur” is made relevant again as we see its residual mindset permeating many Black men in the music […]
By Dominique Hazzard I am a queer black woman. By this I mean that the words to describe my sexuality exist outside the margins, between the approved boundaries, beyond the limits of most imaginations. A queer thing is a thing that existing words cannot yet adequately describe, a thing that our language and our boxes […]
From the Chicago Reporter: Most people see a jail and think about crime, tragedy and heartbreak. Others see dollar signs. Thatâs because incarceration can be a big money maker. Consider the drab polyester and cotton scrubs worn by detainees and inmates at Cook County Jail, where about 100,000 people are booked annually. (At County, the […]
