It looks like Flint, Michigan is getting help from nearby celebrities. Big Sean is an active participant in helping the Flint, Michigan water crisis, as he launched #HealFlintKids on Thursday, January 21, 2016 along with donating $10,000.
After four days of deliberation, an all White jury found serial rapist and former Oklahoma City Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty ofĀ multiple charges including rape, forcible oral sodomy, and sexual battery on Thursday. This was an outcome many were hoping for as the gruesome details of Holtzclaw’s predatory actions came to light.
On February 1, 1968, two Black Memphis sanitation workers were crushed to death when the compactor on their truck was accidentally triggered. It was the last in a series of events that would eventually lead the cityās majority Black sanitation workforce to go on strike, demanding safer work conditions, better wages, and union recognition. What […]
This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos. When I was seventeen, I was groomed and preyed upon by a high school basketball coach. He told me to stop wearing panties if I wanted to get a āreal man.ā He invited me to drink, smoke weed, and hang out with his twenty-something year-old friends. […]
By Victoria Massie I’m trying to do a better job of not writing when I’m heated. Much of this rooted in a deep sense of self-care. For this reason I ask that people redirect their energies toward something more productive. Rachel Dolezal is not novel. Every aspect of how she hit the stage, of how […]
By Jay Dodd Earlier this week, Arrogant Internet White Man #456 or Chuck C. Johnson used Twitter to fundraise a ātaking outā of community organizer and movement curator Deray McKesson. The threat spread quick and many mobilized to hold Twitter accountable for allowing such threats. While Black Twitter was critical in the quick response, McKessonās […]
By Jay Dodd We shouldnāt be laughing at Drake right now. Like for real. Say what you want about the memes, and lists, and tweets reacting to Madonnaās latest shock attempt, but itās not funny yet. Madonna canāt perform that type of ādominationā in such a public forum without critique. His face said it all. […]
Kerry Washington accepted the Vanguard Award at this weekend’s GLAAD Media Awards and her speech brought down the house. “We can’t say that we believe in each other’s fundamental humanity and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each others’ existence and the truth of each other’s hearts. We must be allies. And […]
By Arielle Newton On a track with Juicy J called āFor Everybody,ā Wiz Khalifa, the estranged husband of businesswoman Amber Rose,Ā rappedĀ about how heĀ āfell in love with a stripperāĀ butĀ āfell out of love quicker.āĀ He opines that hoes donātĀ āpay attention to love anyway,āĀ because theyāreĀ āonly concerned with what the haters sayāĀ and need Instagram and reality TV to decipher their […]
ByĀ Charlene A. Carruthers Today marks the 21st anniversary of theĀ Ibrahimi Mosque massacreĀ by American-born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein in Hebron. Since then, the level of Israeli occupation and domination throughout one of the worldās oldest cities continues to rise. I cannot tell you the entire story of what is happening in Palestine right now, but I […]
Ā From The Root: Nine months ago a now-former Mississippi judge is alleged to have smacked a mentally disabled man before yelling, “Run, n–ger, run.” In response to that incident, a grand jury has “served an indictment for simple assault on a vulnerable adult,” theĀ Jackson Clarion-LedgerĀ reports. There was no word on why the process to […]
The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Brittney Cooper. By: Brittney Cooper On Friday, I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU. Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window, I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on […]
