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By Marion Andrew Humphrey, Jr. The term ‘self care’ has played an integral role in my work in progressive organizing spaces.  I’ve trained multiple times on the practice of it.   Self care can be described as the process where activists remove themselves from their work to heal and to restore their fighting power.  Recently, however, […]

Ten-year-old Esther Okade is currently studying mathematics at Open University in the United Kingdom. From Telegraph: She’s a big fan of Disney’s Frozen, and loves playing with her dolls. But Esther Okade is also a university undergraduate after starting a degree at the age of ten. Esther, one of the UK’s youngest university students, is […]

Kanye West was caught with his foot in his mouth and down his intestines during an interview on The Breakfast Club. On Amber Rose’s recent comments about Kim Kardashian: “[Rose] is just soaking in the moment. Nobody feels compelled to do nothing. If Kim had dated me when I first wanted to be with her, […]

An Academy member ranted over criticism that the Oscars snubbed Selma. Their reasoning sounds, well, racist. First, let me say that I’m tired of all of this talk about “snubs” — I thought for every one of [the snubs] there was a justifiable reason. What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma […]

From The Root: Last week Drake pulled a Beyoncé and released new music without any promotion. Although the album didn’t chart as well as Beyoncé’s, If Youre Reading This Its Too Late (yes, he did not use apostrophes) was still a hit among Drake’s die-hard fans. Including Richy Huck, who decided to permanently show how much of […]

Al Sharpton doesn’t think that young people have a movement. He said as much in a recent Washington Post profile. This: “The issue with my generation is we’re more about the Occupy organizing model,” she told Sharpton now. “You know, everyone can be a leader, that kind of thing.” “I hear them saying that,” Sharpton […]

“African-Americans are, in a very real sense, the descendants of alien abductees…Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of 20th century technoculture — and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future — might, for want of a better term, be called Afrofuturism.” […]

By Rana Zoe Mungin The key, ultimately, is to blend. Granma speaks Spanish, but she’s dark enough that no one asks, just assumes, really, that she’s the same: black, Afro American, whatever you’re willing to say. Her people are from PR, but she was born on St. Croix, the only kid with a different daddy, […]

“I didn’t even know what I was doing was considered organizing until someone told me,” Johnetta “Netta” Elzie, a key Ferguson organizer, told the Atlantic.

Writing for Salon, Priscilla Ward says that she refuses to suppress her blackness any longer to make others comfortable.

The outrage surrounding MLK Day club parties is misplaced writes Tracy Clayton. Respectability politics won’t save us.

Kendrick Lamar’s recent comments about respectability politics in the Black community sparked twitter outrage and a war of words amongst several of his Hip Hop contemporaries. I weigh in on the situation. Enjoy!