In Brownsville, Texas, an old Walmart sits along the Mexican border. Today, it has been transformed into a safe haven, a lively city, and a home called “Casa Padre” for over 1,400 immigrant children.
On June 4th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted one of the biggest workplace raids under the Trump administration. They arrested 114 people suspected of entering the county illegally at Corso’s Flower and Garden Center in Ohio.
By Stanley Fritz Last year during Mother’s day weekend, the National Bail out Collective, a coalition of black organizers working, including participants from The Movement for Black Lives and multiple affiliated groups joined forces on an initiative whose main goal was to liberate hundreds of mothers and caregivers who had fallen victim to the criminal justice […]
A Harvard University research team led by scientists at the school’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted randomized surveys of households in Puerto Rico about their experiences during and after Hurricane Maria. From those surveys, researches concluded that somewhere around 4,645 “excess deaths” are related to the hurricane.
Recently, Washingtonian Magazine ran a photo campaign titled “I’m Not a Tourist” intended to showcase the many native residents of Washington D.C. However, no Black natives were featured, despite the fact Washington D.C.’s city population is 47.7% Black.
Donda’s House, a non-profit founded in 2011 by rapper turned Trump acolyte Kanye West, Rhymefest, and Donnie Smith to honor West’s late mother Donda is reportedly changing its name following Kanye West’s recent Trump supporting Twitter rants and a feud with his wife Kim Kardashian-West. The organization had been repeatedly asked to respond to West’s TMZ […]
The National Football League has just approved a policy that requires players on the field to stand for the national anthem. Players who do not wish to stand must stay in the locker room until the anthem is finished. Their respective teams will be fined if players do not abide by the new policy. NFL […]
By Briana Lawrence Ah. There they are. Your fave. The person who puts a smile on your face whenever they take a breath. If they’re at a convention, you best believe you’re gettin’ that autograph. Hell, you might even spring for a professional photo — or, at the very least, a selfie. You use their […]
There is Joy and then there is joy. It may seem like Joy only liked you as a child, but it’s not really her fault that she visits less and less now that you are older. She can survive better that way. This world is out to kill her, to stamp her out. And the […]
On May 16, 2018, 16 Black French actresses and performers staged a red carpet protest to challenge anti-Black racism in the French film industry during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals.
Nearly 90 years after it was first written, Zora Neale Hurston’s series of interviews with one of the last Africans brought to America from the Atlantic slave trade has arrived in bookstores across the country. Barracoon is introduced rather fittingly by Alice Walker, the woman whom we can thank for a revitalized interest and scholarship […]
Spike Lee made a triumphant return to Cannes after his infamous snubbing for the Palme d’Or in 1989 for his now classic film Do The Right Thing. The filmmaker receiving a thunderous round of applause after screening his newest film BlacKkKlansman, which reportedly lasted for around eight minutes. BlacKkKlansman is a retelling of a true story set in […]
