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White dancer cries racism at African festival
A woman says she was kicked off the dance floor of a St. Louis Arts Festival because she is white. Susan Stone said she was dancing at the event in Forest Park, when a staff member asked her to stop, then made a racist remark.
16 Black actresses protest anti-Blackness in the industry at Cannes Film Festival
On May 16, 2018, 16 Black French actresses and performers staged a red carpet protest to challenge anti-Black racism in the French film industry during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals.
Sandra Bland documentary to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
A documentary film entitled Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland will be premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25th, and later this year will air on HBO. The film, which HBO describes as part legal thriller, part parable concerning race in America follows the confusing and ambiguous last days […]
Smithsonian African-American Museum Opens September 24.
What a month it has already been, and it’s only the fourth day in. According to the Associated Press, the Smithsonian Institution announced on Monday that the National Museum of African American History and Culture finally has an open date: September 24, 2016.
Young, East African and Queer
None on Record, a multimedia project that records interviews with members of African LGTBQ communities and the Diaspora, created a video series to commemorate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. From OkayPlayer: None on Record is a digital media organization that works to document stories from LGBT communities on the Continent and throughout the Diaspora. […]
Film festival aims to show there’s more to Englewood than violence
This year, Film Director Mark Harris will put on the third annual Englewood International Film Festival. The southwest Chicago neighborhood has had its share of negative press, with most media outlets only covering gang activity and crime.
Black Leaders: Florida Boycott Will Harm African American Community in Florida
With Black people making 16.6 percent of the population of Florida, members of our own community will likely be impacted negatively by a boycott of Florida.
Print Never Left: Black Writers on Archiving and Self-Published Print Media
by Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield Social media is currently flooded with messages from people encouraging others online to “get into print media” or “go analog,” while simultaneously bemoaning the loss of politically aware print media that centered marginalized voices—RIP Bitch Media—and a dearth of media that represent our experiences. However, for Black artists, writers and […]
Solidarity in translation: Anti-Blackness from the U.S to France
by Fania Noel The assassination of George Floyd by the police and the uprisings that followed reverberate across the Atlantic Ocean, finding resonance and solidarity in France. Four days after the murder of George Floyd, a medical expert was called in to evaluate the case of Adama Traoré, a Black man who died while in […]
Faced with commercialization, the Black Punk community turns to its past for a guide to keep resisting
By Monika Estrella Negra The majority of the Black punks I have talked to were drawn to (or got lost in) the Punk scene in order to escape the rigidity and heteronormative idealism of traditional Black political organizing. This is not to infer that all Black punks identify with far leftist views, nor does it […]
Inland, a short story
by Vernon Jordan, III She sat in the back of the joint, eyeing him. From over the shoulder of his bass, he noticed her fingers around the rim of a glass, miming the bass notes. He was the player, but so was she. Rooted, was their first glance, she minded him the way trees mind […]
We deserve to see more Black vampires on the screen
by Andrew Keahey The image on the screen is alway the same: a young woman, unsuspecting of any danger, twirls her hair and chats with a stranger. He’s always tall, he’s well-dressed and clearly of “good breeding”, and he’s always white. Pale white. The young woman’s thoughts ring clear, “Is this charming man a little […]