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Yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, announced that the Trump administration was admitting no more than 30,000 refugees in the fiscal year of 2019. The 2019 US fiscal year begins on October 1st.

The Black Muslim Psychology Conference (BMPC) will commence at the Chubb Hotel and Conference Center in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania this July 20-22. Hosted by the Muslim Wellness Foundation and embarking on its 4th year, the 2018 BMPC is titled “Love & Liberation: Lessons on Sex, Intimacy, Marriage & Family”.

After 20 years, France won its second World Cup championship this past Sunday, beating Croatia 4-2. While many celebrated the diverse makeup of the French team in the age of a xenophobic President Trump, many on social media were quick to point out the fact that France has racist and Islamophobic policies and social life […]

Ethiopia and Eritrea have declared peace after nearly 20 years of “no war, no peace” between the two countries, according to reports from the BBC. Previously, a peace treaty which was supposed to end hostilities between the nations after border conflicts from 1998-2000 was never actually implemented. As a result, the two countries have been […]

Sacramento police shot 22 year old Stephon Clark 20 times as he stood in his own backyard and they later claimed he had a crowbar in his hand. Sgt. Vance Chandler told the media that “twenty rounds were fired” and that “each officer fired ten rounds.” Neither officer knew precisely how many of those rounds […]

With much of the nation counting down the days until Donald Trump’s impeachment or the end of his presidential term (and hopefully avoidance of a second term), many members of the electorate are getting a better look at their 2020 presidential options. As the Hill recently reported, Sen. Kamala Harris is expected to be one […]

By Terrence Sage The following is a list of comics either ongoing or releasing this year. It is focused on either Black creative teams penning the adventures of superheroes, or comics that star Black superheroes in a prominent light!

Nearing the end of each year, I like to compile a list of upcoming films that look intriguing to me or that I have been anticipating for months, or even years. This year, I tailored my list to be extensive and hella Black, just for y’all. Each of these feature a predominantly Black cast, Black […]

PEN America has announced the 2018 crop of books that made its longlist, which is welcome news in the face of the Trump Administration publicly mulling cutting funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. Programs and spaces like PEN America are vital to the preservation of literary freedom and expression, even more so with […]

The iconic and legendary literary figure Zora Neale Hurston does not need to give us any more material to add to her legacy, but Harper Collins has announced that she actually had an unpublished work completed before her death. Barracoon tells the story of the last known person to survive the transatlantic slave trade, a […]

If you’re a book lover, a literature lover, or a writer of any sort who needs recommendations on what to read, you’re in luck because NPR has released a “best of” list of over three hundred books in several different genres. I have gone through the trouble of looking through the list for work by […]

Freedom work involving Black people in America, particularly when married to education as a liberation tool, necessitates studying historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With this understanding, filmmaker Stanley Nelson created a first-of-its-kind documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising. The documentary is touted on the official website as an exploration of “the pivotal role” historically […]