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by Antoinette Gregg  This essay contains minor spoilers for Black Lightning. I had no idea what to expect when I sat down to check out Black Lightning last Tuesday night. I’ve been watching other CW shows like Arrow and The Flash, and I wondering what this leading Black man would have in store for us. […]

Nearing the end of each year, I like to compile a list of upcoming films that look intriguing to me or that I have been anticipating for months, or even years. This year, I tailored my list to be extensive and hella Black, just for y’all. Each of these feature a predominantly Black cast, Black […]

by Tynesha McCullers  Growing up, church leaders generally encouraged us to not question God, and if we did, they insisted that we were to ask “why not me?” rather than “why me?” With this sentiment was the understanding that God created all beings and predetermined our destiny, for reasons that we may never know or […]

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission finally delivered its long-expected and devastating death knell to Obama-era Net Neutrality rules—policies supposedly put in place to ensure the internet remained on a level playing field with access equity. The repeal is likely to further impede the work of digital organizers for social justice and exacerbate economic disparities […]

Editor’s Note: This post contains discussions of sexual and domestic violence. It also contains spoilers of the Netflix film One of Us. I’ve been thinking a lot about growing up Black in the Hare Krsna community lately, owed primarily to the fact that I am currently working on a memoir. But I was most recently […]

By Benji Hart Recently, the Chicago Police Department released a video on its Facebook page entitled “You Are Not Alone!” intending to raise awareness about the high suicide rate among its officers—which the video cites as being nearly 60% higher than the national average. The video depicts a uniformed officer reaching slowly for their own […]

The St. Paul, Minnesota school where Philando Castile used to work at had an honorable practice of making sure that every student gets a lunch, whether or not they can afford to pay for it. Sometimes, Castile would even pay for student’s lunches with money out of his own pocket. To honor this legacy, a […]

In all the chaos that transpired in Charlottesville, there are stories still making their way to the general public. One of which revolves around a gunshot that was fired at a group of protestors by a white supremacist. 

By Law Ware It should have worked. In theory, a film about a city on edge that erupts into violence because of police brutality should inspire conversations and think pieces about how little things have changed in the 50 years since the incident being represented. We could be discussing how the film shows the historical […]

Claremont McKenna College has suspended five students in connection to a protest in April where they blocked the entrance to a speaking even on-campus. Three students were suspended for a full academic year while two were suspended for a semester, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Pedro Hernandez is fighting to be released from custody in enough time to claim his scholarship to attend college after being arrested for attempted murder. A judge offered him a deal where a guilty plea would result in five years of probation and a clean record after. However, Hernandez is insistent he’s innocent and wouldn’t […]

Kerry Crews, the police chief of Commerce, Texas, has resigned after the controversial arrest of a Black woman last month who claimed she was called a “black bitch.”