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Corey Booker, speaking as a panelist on the National Action Network Convention organized by Rev. Al Sharpton last weekend, pointed the finger at low Black voter turnout to explain why Republicans won victories across the nation during the 2016 election cycle. Booker compared his observations during the 2008 cycle to what he saw in the […]

The ancestors must smile at Black girls like 11-year-old Naomi Wadler and 13-year-old Marley Dias. Both used their creativity and access points in challenging society to ask, “What about the Black girls?”  Many activists, commentators and policymakers lauded Wadler as the most compelling speaker at the recent gun control demonstration March for Our Lives for critiquing […]

While Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled by Congress on issues related to Facebook sharing data with Cambridge Analytica, and the infiltration of the social media giant by Russian trolls, reports began to surface that one of the biggest Black Lives Matter profiles on the platform is actually a fake. According to The Root, a CNN […]

Cambridge Analytical, a data analysis firm with a conservative bent, has been suspended from Facebook after allegations that Facebook allowed the firm access to its users personal information for their own political aims. Cambridge Analytical is responsible for quite a few conservative upsets over the past few years, the feather in its cap being possibly its […]

While mainstream news rooms do not comprehensively address the scope of today’s storytelling  and storytellers, these publications remain important and owe readerships a duty of quality representation. The American Society of News Editors reported last fall that  journalists of color composed about 17 percent of domestic news rooms. In online media, about one quarter of […]

The incredible Jesmyn Ward has reached a two-book deal with an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books and Scribner. Ward’s next adult-focused novel, which is still untitled, will remain squarely focused on the South like her previous work. It follows an enslaved woman who is sent from the […]

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o is writing a children’s book about a 5-year-old Kenyan girl’s journey to accepting and loving her dark-skinned complexion. Sulwe, the titular protagonist in Nyong’o’s story, is the darkest person in her family and is obsessed with lightening her skin before going on a fantastical journey that leads her to appreciate her […]

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, which recently reached the eighth anniversary of its original publication date in 2010, was banned from New Jersey state prisons by its Department of Corrections even though by their own admission the book was being used in prison curriculum. In a letter to the Department of Corrections, the American […]

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission finally delivered its long-expected and devastating death knell to Obama-era Net Neutrality rules—policies supposedly put in place to ensure the internet remained on a level playing field with access equity. The repeal is likely to further impede the work of digital organizers for social justice and exacerbate economic disparities […]

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 […]

Jesmyn Ward’s sprawling, definitively Southern novel Sing, Unburied, Sing has rightfully been rewarded by the National Book Foundation with the National Book Award in the genre of fiction. The novel sees Ward return to the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, which was also the setting of Ward’s 2011 National Book Award winning Salvage the Bones. […]