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Video shows rapper Fabolous, just arrested on domestic violence charges, threatening girlfriend and her father
John David Jackson, better known as Brooklyn-bred rapper Fabolous, will likely be asked for fewer encores after footage of him threatening his longtime girlfriend and her father went live on TMZ during the weekend. In the video, Fabolous, 40, lurched toward his partner Emily Bustamente and her father with what seems like a metal object. […]
FBI is in the process of prosecuting its first ‘Black Identity Extremist’
According to reports from Foreign Policy, the arrest of Christopher Daniels, known in Dallas as Rakem Balogun, on December 12, 2017 has resulted in the FBI’s first known prosecution of any individual suspected as being a Black Identity Extremist. The FBI Counterterrorism unit came up with this designation targeting radical Black activists last year, and […]
Black Youth Oppose the Expansion of Shoot First Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Contact Charlene Carruthers blkyp100@gmail.com 773-208-2264 Florida Contact Edward James edward.james807@gmail.com Black Youth Oppose the Expansion of Shoot First Law Yesterday, the Florida House of Representatives passed amendment HB-89, a disastrous piece of legislation that expands the scope of the state’s “Shoot First,” also known as “Stand Your Ground,” law. The warning […]
We are no good to the dead, and yet we believe the grieving owe us their tears
In my family, we have a tradition of cooking and sitting with the grieving, especially when they have no words. Especially when the tears have been ripped out and the well to produce more has disappeared. We honor the lives of the folks who’ve been lost, beaten, and violently shredded from this world by sitting […]
“It doesn’t have to make sense to other people”: An interview with African Diaspora Childfree Sociologist, Dr. Kimya N. Dennis
I wasn’t prepared for the responses to my most recent essay on living intentionally as a childfree Black woman and taking ownership of my womb. I never presumed I was alone in my sentiments on this subject, of course, but I also didn’t expect my words to resonate so deeply with so many people. Writing […]
It’s a matter of time: Resisting the enshrining of white supremacy in our collective memory
“Who is that guy, mommy?” My four-year-old was pointing at the Abraham Lincoln monument in Washington D.C. in 2013. Just the day before, a jury of six women, only one who identified as a “woman of color,” had found George Zimmerman “not guilty” in the murder of Trayvon Martin. “That’s Abraham Lincoln. He was president.”
If Black innocence never exists to the state, how can passivism and perfect victimhood save us?
[Banner photo: A headline from The Daily Kos seeming to play up the fact that Jordan Edwards was unarmed and an “honor roll student”] By Zoé Samudzi On May 20, Richard Collins III, a young Black soon-to-be graduate of Bowie State University, was murdered by Sean Urbanski, a member of a white supremacist Facebook group called Alt-Reich […]
Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Shot Being Sent To Chicago
The gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland Police for holding a toy gun has become a landmark of sorts. It’s turned into a place for collective mourning and a reminder of the same justice system that allowed the officers to walk away free. The physical reminder of Rice’s death, and, to be quite […]
The Black and White Housing Gap: It Might Be More than the Money
Last week, the New York Times reported findings that African American families with higher incomes tend to live in areas with more low income African Americans due to segregation, as well as systemic racism in housing and home mortgage lending. The report also brings attention to racism in white neighborhoods, which black families may wish […]
Black Power: A Q&A With Charlene Carruthers
The office of Black Youth Project 100 is a few blocks from President Barack Obama’s private residence in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The organization’s national director, Charlene Carruthers, like Obama in his younger activist days, is a Chicago community organizer. The similarities may stop there. Indeed, Carruthers has been loudly calling for the resignation of […]
Tell the City of Pittsburgh to Let Leon Ford Live
Leon Ford at Community Awareness Day (Photo by Haute Muslim) httpv://youtu.be/_x-8MGdRBgA On November 11, 2012, Leon Ford was pulled over by the Pittsburgh police. He promptly gave them his drivers license and registration, which confirmed who he was and his ownership of the vehicle he was driving. The police officers then decided, despite Leon giving them […]
Report: black college student has same chances of employment as white high school graduate
According to a report released by Young Invincibles, African-American students who have attended college have the same probability of getting a job as a white high school graduate. Researchers took a look at data mainly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census.