The daily routine of watching Bernie Sanders fans hell-bent on bullying people of color on social media and hopelessly loyal Hillary supporters claiming her campaign an intersectional victory has left me feeling even less apt to cast my vote for either candidate in November. As a young Black, queer woman of middle-class means and working-class […]
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s music has never really drawn me in. Initially, I admit it was because the public was so strongly against it I didn’t feel the need. Even when I decided to think for myself and checked outĀ The HeistĀ on my own, there wasn’t much to make me want to revisit it; but that’s […]
Nate Parker’sĀ The Birth of A Nation, a film telling the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion, recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. TheĀ attention was so sudden that there was a bidding war the very next morning that ended when Fox Searchlight, the same studio that releasedĀ 12 Years a Slave, bid […]
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.
Awards shows are as much about recognizing artists for their craft as they are artists recognizing those who got them there. Unfortunately, Sylvester Stallone, forgot about the former.
The three sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, along with āabout 150ā militiamen, have seized control of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters to protest the forthcoming imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, on the basis that the federal government has no authority in local crimes.
One of the Hollywoodās hottest up-and-coming directors has been given the lead on Marvelās much anticipated Black Panther film.
After a year of investigation, a grand jury, on Monday, chose not to indict Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the Cleveland patrolmen involved in the shooting and death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.
2015 was a year of anger and frustration on the political front. It was a year when more innocent Black lives were lost due to police violence. It was also a year where a blatant disrespect for blackness was manifested through the repeated instances of cultural appropriation in the media i.e. Rachel Dolezal and Kylie […]
This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos. In December 2013, news broke that a young, well-to-do 16-year-old White male named Ethan Couch had been sentenced to probation after mowing down four people in a drunken stupor, killing them all and injuring two others. The claim: he suffered from something called āaffluenzaā ā […]
News just broke that a jury could not reach a decision in the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, 26, who was charged in relation to the killing of Freddie Gray, 25, in April. This is the first of six cases related to Gray’s gruesome death in the back of police van.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2015 Contact: Camesha Jones 240-533-2876 chicago.chapter@byp100.org Ā official statement from the byp100 on the firing of cpd police superintendent garry mccarthy BYP100 calls for resignation of Mayor Emanuel and States Attorney Alvarez, defunding of policing and investment in Black futures
