Actor Anthony Mackie sat down with the Grio to discuss his latest film, Black or White. The conversation went down a strange path when discussing Selma, the Oscars, and racial profiling.
Writing for Salon, Priscilla Ward says that she refuses to suppress her blackness any longer to make others comfortable.
A Hip-Hop firebrand speaks his truth on Martin Luther King and what it means to celebrate him and carry on his tradition. As always, enjoy!
This past weekend’s Saturday Night Live offered a funny, but insightful look on the impacts of gentrification in Brooklyn, NY.
The outrage surrounding MLK Day club parties is misplaced writes Tracy Clayton. Respectability politics won’t save us.
Stacey Patton’s incisive essay for Dame Magazine explains why America has betrayed Dr. King’s dream.
Vox has a good roundup of the Martin Luther King quotes that often go unheard.Â
This video shows the range of hairstyles worn by black women over the last century. We need to bring some of this styles back. H/T: Buzzfeed
If there’s one thing that people who haven’t been living under a rock know, it’s to never, ever come for the Beyoncé. It is a loosing battle. You will not win. But Mike Huckabee didn’t get this message. Huckabee is upset that Barack Obama allows his daughters to listen to Queen Bey.
By Dominique Hazzard I don’t really care about the Oscars. I’m not a movie buff, I think awards shows are boring, and I don’t give a huge amount of weight to the artistic judgements of a bunch of hand selected old white men with ballots. Being too invested in receiving affirmation from whiteness and white […]
A member of the National Guard was shocked when she went to a local range for target practice.
Boston, a city with a long history of racial violence and segregation got a wake up call yesterday. A group supported by, but unaffiliated with Black Lives Matter Boston, took to the highway to unite against racism.
