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According to a Gallup poll released last week, a majority of Republicans are in favor of the legalization of marijuana for the first time on record. According to the poll, 51% of Republicans polled think that marijuana should be legal. This is likely due to the increasing public popularity of legalizing marijuana and many successes […]

Content creators struggle with striking a balance between honest, nuanced portrayals and maintaining consumers’ attention while telling human stories. However, members of a Westside of Chicago neighborhood complained to local media when filming for the upcoming Showtime drama series The Chi included a set with a fictitious corner store, which contained actual food and household […]

In the years between Victor Halerpin’s White Zombie (1932) and Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017), Blackness in the horror genre has largely been a myriad of hidden slavery narratives featuring gendered anti-Black violence and racist dehumanization. Excepting the stories that include Black characters as tokens or magical negroes who ensure the survival of white characters—usually […]

“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.”

By Law Ware Last weekend, the governor of the state of Virginia declared a state of emergency after chaos ensued when white supremacists marched through Charlottesville in an effort to “Unite the Right,” causing the deaths of three people and injuries to 34 more. Immediately, black folks took to social media to voice their discontent; counter-protesters […]

The views on same-sex marriage and support of the LGBTQ community may change drastically depending on where you go. Many countries are moving towards a progressive future where people are allowed to openly love who they want. But many others are standing firm in their beliefs rooted in homophobia, like Haiti. NewNowNext reports that Haitian […]

When you break a glass ceiling – which is exactly what Michelle Obama did – there’s a good chance that you may feel a cut or two. The ones that hurt the deepest depend on the person. For the first black First Lady, it was the comments that were based on racial hatred.

Breaking News: Hip-hop doesn’t like women. Rick Ross appeared on The Breakfast Club to dish his thoughts on all the happenings in hip-hop culture. Eventually, the interview took a turn inwards and focused on Rozay and his own MMG label.

Media is constantly evolving and industry titans are all trying different ways to keep up. Some are investing more in video and laying off their staffs by the dozen. Others are abandoning print versions of publications. And a few, like Time Inc., are focusing on their “core” products and selling off the rest. In an […]

Being arrested for walking while Black, commonly referred to as “WWB”, was thought to be a myth, if not a rarity. However, new video footage suggests that it happens far more often than suspected. 

This article has been cross-posted with permission. Saturday Night Live is what happens when white people enjoy something that’s anti-Black, systematically bigoted, and generally exclusionary to non-whites. SNL producers thought that throwing in a few Black people who we hoped had home-training would fix it. Because that’s not how white supremacy works. It took me a while to […]

By Tariq Luthun This week, the story of Ziad Ahmed–a Muslim-American teen who was accepted into Stanford after writing #BlackLivesMatter in his application–went viral. Since the story dropped, many have come out in praise of the young man for his seemingly bold decision to write the politicized phrase on such an important application not just […]