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‘Queen of Katwe’ Trailer and ‘Black Panther’ Casting Puts Lupita Nyong’o In the Spotlight
By: Angelica Bastien After winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the 2013 film 12 Years A Slave Lupita Nyong’o’s film career didn’t catapult in the ways fans expected. But it looks like she’s coming back into the spotlight with the release of the Queen of Katwe trailer and news of her potential […]
100 Percent Of Urban Prep Seniors Are Headed To College For 7th Consecutive Year
For the past seven years, Urban Prep Charter Academy has managed to send 100% of its students to four-year colleges. Given that the school’s student body is predominately young black men on Chicago’s South Side, it’s a refreshing story that rarely gets old.
Organizers Stopped Traffic On Lake Shore Drive During NFL ‘Draft Town’
The NFL Draft had only taken place in New York City for 50 years before relocating to Chicago in 2015. After the events huge success, the city got a chance to repeat it this year and welcomed heaps of tourists and media. With this level of attention, a group of Chicago organizers took the opportunity […]
In 2016, UVA Medical Students Think Blacks Feel Less Pain Than Whites
Welcome to America where Blacks are consistently marginalized and stereotyped, and color matters more than ever. People are more likely to arrest you if you are Black, and even Raven-Symone won’t hire you if your name sounds too Black. In a new study, white doctors think that Black people are invincible to the pains that […]
Two Sisters Become Youngest California Beauty-Supply Owners
Kayla, 19, and Keonna Davis, 21, are making local history with their new business venture. The two sisters have become the youngest owners of a beauty-supply-store in California, according to the Root.
Texas Police Officer Recorded Pepper-Spraying A Handcuffed Man
An Austin, Texas police officer was recorded on video confronting a man that was already in police custody. The video, which was recorded by Peaceful Streets Project, appears to show the officer using pepper spray on a man who was handcuffed in the back of a police van.
Janelle Monae Finishes Out Leading Trio In ‘Hidden Figures’
“Hidden Figures,” a film about the three black female NASA employees that helped send the first American into orbit in 1972, has just cast its final member of the leading trio – Janelle Monae.
Black Power: A Q&A With Charlene Carruthers
The office of Black Youth Project 100 is a few blocks from President Barack Obama’s private residence in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The organization’s national director, Charlene Carruthers, like Obama in his younger activist days, is a Chicago community organizer. The similarities may stop there. Indeed, Carruthers has been loudly calling for the resignation of […]
Jamie Foxx shows humility after rescuing man from burning car
Jamie Foxx is many things: an Academy-Award winning actor, TV star, and singer. But his heroism at a car crash near his home in Los Angeles proved none of his accolades bar him from risking his life to save another’s. ABC News reported that 32-year-old Brett Kyle was driving in Foxx’s neighborhood while under the […]
ICYMI: Lupita Nyong’o lights up red carpet in dress coded by girls
Lupita Nyong’o continues to establish herself as a style icon at the frontier of fashion here on earth and, more recently, galaxies far, far away.
Jeremiah Nebula Has Come to Life To Tell You That Black Boys Love Pink
By L.G. Parker “Seeing the book in the hands of the children,” Large Fears author Myles Johnson shared with me, “was one of the most surreal moments of my life. More than that, it felt complete.”
What if We Loved Black Women Like We Love Black Male Rapists?
This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos. When I was seventeen, I was groomed and preyed upon by a high school basketball coach. He told me to stop wearing panties if I wanted to get a ‘real man.’ He invited me to drink, smoke weed, and hang out with his twenty-something year-old friends. […]