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Toni Griffin, a leading visionary in the field of architecture and design, recently won the Design Competition for Chouteau Greenway in St. Louis despite subverting the intended aims of the competition. Griffin’s proposal was inclusive of streets and pathways populated by historically marginalized people, connecting them and their neighborhoods to the landmark Gateway Arch which sits […]

In 2014, Gregory Hill, a 30 year old Black man, was shot three times and killed by police in his Florida garage after complaints of loud music. To add insult to injury, last week, a federal jury awarded his family a $4 verdict in their civil case.

The video game Watchdogs 2 opens with you having to hack into a server and wipe your criminal record clean so the police can’t use a predictive algorithm that predicts future crimes based on past actions. The algorithm leans heavily on using facial recognition databases to keep tabs on citizens. Of note, the protagonist is Black, […]

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.

With her debut film Little Woods, which stars Tessa Thompson and Lillie James as two estranged sisters, filmmaker Nia DaCosta made a splash at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film explores themes of sisterhood, poverty, family obligation, poverty, and reproductive rights. Taking place in rural North Dakota, Little Woods is set against the opioid epidemic […]

by Jamila Mitchell The emancipation of freed slaves and subsequent constitutional amendments of the 20th century meant that white people could no longer marginalize Black folks through the physical bondage of chattel slavery. Faced with new restrictions, they quickly resigned to maintaining their rule through a new age of psychological warfare on the formerly enslaved, […]

By Teju Adisa-Farrar Draylen Mason was a 17-year-old living with his family in Austin, Texas when he was killed by a bomb on March 12th. Many of the articles written about his death list all of his accolades and note how incredibly talented he was. The picture generally shared is one where he is playing […]

One Jacksonville, Florida middle school teacher became his own national teachable moment after feeding students a hot mess hatred soup. David Swinyar of Kernan Middle School reportedly used the “n”-word in class, made ableist remarks (called students dumb), advised them not to date African Americans “because they are not worth it,” and acted in physically aggressive ways […]

America’s oldest and largest literary arts organization is set to host their 30th annual awards ceremony on Monday, June 4th in New York City. The Lambda Literary Awards, or “Lammy’s”, selected finalists from nearly 1,000 submissions and over 300 publishers, ranging from major mainstream presses to independent presses to self-published works. The Visionary and Trustee […]

The first step to some semblance of retribution in the police’s execution of Korryn Gaines was achieved on Friday, as a six-person, all female jury found Cpl. Royce Ruby and the Baltimore Police Department guilty of violating the slain Baltimore mother’s civil rights under both federal and state clauses. Gaines’ son Kodi, who was shot […]

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 […]

By Lewam Dejen As a Black woman, a diasporic transplant and a student in and of the West, I find myself in a sunken place within traditions of “collective history.” I am nowhere in the stories to which I devoted my everything. Many marginalized people know the struggle of holding tightly onto what decidedly unsees […]