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We need to stop telling Black children to “sit down and shut up”
by Arnetta Randall Recently, I watched a live stream of a conversation between the Former First Lady, Michelle Obama and the First Lady of television, Shonda Rhimes. I found it simply amazing. One of the moments that resonated with me the most was when Michelle spoke about how her parents listened to her as a […]
FBI rolls out renewed COINTELPRO, warning of “Black Identity Extremists”
“Black Identity Extremist” is the new “The Black Panthers are the biggest threat to peace and security in America,” according to a FBI report attained by Foreign Policy warning that police attacks on Black people could result in violence against police officers. The report was released on August 3rd, only a week and a few […]
National Book Awards finalists show that black art matters
Early Wednesday morning the National Book Awards committees cut down their long lists of forty works to the final twenty book selections across Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Young People’s Literature categories. According to NPR, two legacy winners have already been announced: Annie Proulx, who is being honored with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American […]
It’s a matter of time: Resisting the enshrining of white supremacy in our collective memory
“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.”
Cop could lose job after telling woman ‘We only kill Black people’
A Georgia cop was recorded making a tasteless joke about how police officers “only kill Black people” while trying to talk a woman out of her car, according to CNN. This is the United States in 2017.
Texas A&M cancels Sept. 11 “White Lives Matter” rally
Institutions are taking the time to be more cautious about allowing organizations to hold events on their campus following this past weekend’s horrific scene in Charlottesville, Virginia. They’re specifically thinking twice about welcoming known white supremacists – finally. Texas A&M was being set up as the next battleground of racism and anti-racists during a scheduled […]
“Representation matters,” but not more than everything else
I went to film school chasing a dream of telling my story to a world that always seemed not to know what to do with queer Black bois like me. A dream of forcing the world to know. But it was just a dream. At film school, I quickly learned that while you may be […]
NRA TV host warns viewers that BLM will one day “kill and torture” white people
The NRA doesn’t care about Black people. *Kanye West voice* Well, they don’t care enough to speak up for legal gun owner Philando Castile while they do care enough to be terrified of us beyond all logic.
Why can’t we defend Blackness when a Black person does something wrong?
“Nothing exists in a vacuum” is a trite old aphorism used to explain how all actions have consequences. It is founded on a basic principle in physics that states that space without matter, by definition, contains nothing. The saying highlights the reality that any actions occurring outside of vacuums create ripple effects because matter connects […]
Black students given detention for wearing box braids
Black students are still getting in trouble for wearing Black hairstyles. The latest example of this negatively-received approach comes from Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe reports that parents have come out to pushback against the school’s attempt to punish students for wearing box braids.
Yes, Black liberals commodify Black Lives Matter too and it’s a major problem
By Blake Simons The present day Movement for Black Lives, which I argue was revived by the people of Oakland after the murder of Oscar Grant, and came into fruition because of the rebellion that working class Black folks started in Ferguson after the murder of Mike Brown, has been co-opted by Black capitalistic neo-liberals.
Oprah Winfrey brings power and emotion to ‘The Immortal Henrietta Lacks’
By Imani J. Jackson If nothing else, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a cautionary tale conveyed cinematically. The HBO film, which premiered Saturday, April 22nd, and is based on Rebecca Skloot’s bestselling book of the same name, presented an incrementally improving story about Lacks, an African American woman whose cells changed history. George […]