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Essence Magazine was just acquired by Richelieu Dennis, the Liberian founder of Sundial Brands, in a deal that saw his independent firm Essence Ventures LLC wrest control of Essence from Time Inc, which is now owned by the Koch brothers. In the original deal for the purchase of Time Inc by the Koch owned Meredith […]

The promotions to hype up all things Black Panther and Wakanda are in full swing. This morning we were treated to a double dip of soundtrack hype. First, Kendrick Lamar confirmed that he is not only going to be featured on the soundtrack for Marvel’s Blacker than Black movie, but he is going to be […]

By Ronnie Boyd Over the holidays, I rushed to watch Netflix’s new original film, Bright, starring the always scrumptious (at least, to me) Will Smith. I went into the film wanting to like it, but knowing there was a high likelihood that I wouldn’t. Even with this awareness, I wasn’t prepared for just how much […]

After an incident during which the Israeli police shot her then 15-year-old cousin in the face, point blank, with a rubber bullet which ended up putting him in a medically induced coma, 16 year old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi now faces 12 charges, including interfering with a soldier’s duties, assaulting an Israeli officer, and a charge […]

Jay-Z’s star-studded, Ava Duvernay directed video for the song “Family Feud” from his Grammy-nominated album 4:44 isn’t even a week old and has already drawn criticism and controversy. The latest is from a Catholic rights organization called Catholic League, whose President Bill Donahue has found Jay-Z’s video to be “gratuitous” and “exploitative.”

Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers of Black Mirror S4, E6, “Black Museum” I do not trust myself when I enjoy a tale of Black people experiencing unbearably violent situations on screen. Perhaps I have read too much of Frank Wilderson’s Afro-pessimist film critique Red, White and Black, but I am never quite sure whether […]

Neo-soul icon Erykah Badu was pulled over on New Year’s Eve by the Dallas Police Department. As the officer approached her window, Badu asked the reason for the stop. That’s when it got weird. The officer didn’t name a traffic violation such as a broken taillight, suspicion of intoxication or anything else, she says. The […]

by Roni Dean-Burren, PhD  Church makes me sick. Christians make me sick. I really do mean that. They make me sick. Wait. Let me reword that. We make me sick. I regularly attend a church. I am a Christian, but there are plenty of days that I wish I didn’t identify as such. But I […]

By Ari Colston-Johnson To many, the Black Church calls to mind horror stories of cisheteropatriarchy and theologies shaped by colonialism, white supremacy, and respectability politics. But coming of age in the Gullah-Geechee African Methodist Episcopal (AME) tradition, the Black Church was a foundation for my radical politics, a space for community and Afrocentric syncretism, and […]

To say Venezuela is in a state of upheaval and revolution is putting it mildly. Just days after Christmas, Venezuelans are facing a 2,400% inflation rate and severely depressed purchasing power, according to consulting firm Econometrica, which places Venezuelan buying power at one fifth what it was when Hugo Chavez began the country’s Socialist revolution […]

By Kleaver Cruz Two years ago, I woke up wishing I could go back to sleep and wake up to a more just and Black-loving world. I wanted to relieve myself of the pain that surfaces after watching too many news accounts of law enforcement ending the lives of Black people in the U.S., or […]

The state of California legalized the sale and cultivation of marijuana for recreational use on Monday, but the United States government still classifies weed as a controlled substance alongside drugs such as heroine and LSD. There are eight border patrol checkpoints in California, and according to the assistant chief of the Border Patrol’s San Diego […]