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Kenan Weaver and Darren Williams are set to premiere their new cartoon, Little Red, which follows a pre-Nation of Islam Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) and John Sanford (Redd Foxx) backed by Emmy-winning Titmouse Productions. The title is a nod to the pair’s names during that period of their lives as Little went by Detroit Red […]

Last fall, experts from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health mentored American medical experts in hopes of solving infant mortality issues in the United States. Kaiser Health News reported how the Cuban health care practitioners partnered with American practitioners to study reproductive and general health issues in Chicago’s Englewood community. While the island nation’s infant […]

Human trafficking remains a global mechanism for the dehumanization of and insidious profiting off of vulnerable people. Human trafficking endures when people are kidnapped, sold, subjected to sexual violence and forced into physical labor. It endures in cosmopolitan cities, in small towns, and in western and eastern worlds. It endures in modern day human markets […]

Motivated by Burning Man-in Chief Donald Trump’s looming DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) repeal, the thirty-five-year-old TV and film actor Bambadjan Bamba has revealed his immigration status as an undocumented person who has been working in America using the aid of a work permit he obtained through DACA (which is subject to renewal every […]

Director Dee Rees has long been considered an exceptional directorial talent and now it appears that she has created a film which will give her the Oscar buzz she deserves. Mudbound, which is based on Hillary Jordan’s 2008 debut novel of the same name, is a World War II era story of two Mississippi families—one […]

Anthony Rapp, an ex-Broadway actor best known for his appearance in the production of “Rent” came forward in an interview with Buzzfeed News and alleged that Kevin Spacey “tried to get with him sexually” after a party at Spacey’s apartment in 1986 and Rapp was 14-years-old. Rapp says that Spacey picked him up “like a […]

Black Panther doesn’t hit the theaters until February 18th, 2018, but that isn’t stopping us from being excited and reviving #BlackPanthersolit every other day on Twitter. An important piece of Wakanda is the culture and the costumes that truly are the lifeblood of the country, just as T’Challa is the face. Enter Ruth E. Carter […]

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 […]

After a frenetic Tuesday that saw Washington, D.C.’s Howard University receive not one, but two reports of an active shooter, D.C. police gave an all-clear at around 2:05 pm. Alonzo Joy, the university’s interim police chief, reassured D.C residents and Howard students at a press conference: “We have found no evidence, no witnesses, nothing that […]

Where I grew up, Black was the end of discussion. People clung to what law professor Juan Perea deemed the “black/white binary paradigm of race,” a bare-bones conception that acknowledged only whiteness or Blackness but did not allow for meaningful engagement with ethnicity. In college, I learned about different kinds of Black people. I met […]

Residents of Florida are boarding up their homes, evacuating and heading North as they brace for the impact of Hurricane Irma. Meanwhile, islands in the Caribbean has already fallen victim to serious damage from the category 5 storm with wings reaching 180 mph. 

Police officers in Cleveland, OH are upset about some Cleveland Browns players’ decision to protest the National Anthem at a recent preseason game. To respond, they’ve decided to not appear at the stadium with the U.S. flag as a form of counter protest before the team’s first game on Sept. 10.