Donda’s House, a non-profit founded in 2011 by rapper turned Trump acolyte Kanye West, Rhymefest, and Donnie Smith to honor West’s late mother Donda is reportedly changing its name following Kanye West’s recent Trump supporting Twitter rants and a feud with his wife Kim Kardashian-West. The organization had been repeatedly asked to respond to West’s TMZ […]
The National Football League has just approved a policy that requires players on the field to stand for the national anthem. Players who do not wish to stand must stay in the locker room until the anthem is finished. Their respective teams will be fined if players do not abide by the new policy. NFL […]
By Briana Lawrence Ah. There they are. Your fave. The person who puts a smile on your face whenever they take a breath. If they’re at a convention, you best believe you’re gettin’ that autograph. Hell, you might even spring for a professional photo — or, at the very least, a selfie. You use their […]
There is Joy and then there is joy. It may seem like Joy only liked you as a child, but it’s not really her fault that she visits less and less now that you are older. She can survive better that way. This world is out to kill her, to stamp her out. And the […]
Google is one of the most utilized brands in a technological age. Its search algorithms, availability, and ease of maps makes Google a must know staple of today. However, as Facebook and other big data companies are coming under public scrutiny for misuse of users’ personal data, Google may soon follow suit with increased scrutiny […]
From labor strikes in West Virginia to 6-day walkouts in Arizona, teachers across America are staging protests to demand higher salaries and new classroom material. In Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, thousands of teachers have been protesting the government’s plan to close down 300 schools as they are recovering from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in […]
Last week Tina Knowles-Lawson, the almighty matriarch who has given us all the gifts of BeyoncĂ© and Solange Knowles revealed on Maria Shriver’s show during her Architects of Change segment that she placed her daughters in counseling early in life. Knowles-Lawson said that the inspiration came from her own childhood and thoughts that her own […]
On April 30th, 2018, a white woman reported a residential burglary to the police after she saw Donisha Prendergast, the filmmaker granddaughter of musician Bob Marley, and her artist friends Kelly Fyffe-Marshall and Komi-Oluwa Olafimihan check out of their Airbnb rental and load their suitcases into their vehicle an artist. All three artists are Black.
I just knew that things would change for me the day I closed on my book deal. In my mind, this moment was going to be bigger than anything I had done in my 32 years of life, and I wanted to be aware and very present. I wanted to rejoice like all the viral […]
Junot DĂaz, the award-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has been accused of sexual harassment and misogyny in the literary world by fellow woman authors Zinzi Clemmons, Monica Byrne, Carmen Maria Machado, and others.
George Zimmerman, the 34 year old man acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, was summoned for criminal charges of stalking in the state of Florida, a press release by Seminole County Sheriff’s Office on May 7th stated. Zimmerman is accused of both threatening and harassing Dennis Warren, a private investigator hired by a production company to […]
Editor’s Note: This essay contains discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault, and mentions of r/pe Eldridge Cleaver was a predator—a night stalker. He practiced on “black girls in the ghetto” where he knew the crimes would not be investigated before he eventually ventured across the tracks to methodically rape white women. “Rape was an insurrectionary […]
