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After 20 years, France won its second World Cup championship this past Sunday, beating Croatia 4-2. While many celebrated the diverse makeup of the French team in the age of a xenophobic President Trump, many on social media were quick to point out the fact that France has racist and Islamophobic policies and social life […]

This month, artist and poet Timothy DuWhite will be debuting the world premiere of his play Neptune, a creative performance piece exploring the possibility of a world without white supremacy and queer-antagonism.

As much of the world and the African diaspora has been enraptured by the World Cup, especially during the incredible run from Nigeria, it is only fitting that Wakanda makes its grand entrance into the tournament. According to Movie Web, a Black Panther fan has designed uniforms for the fictional country of Wakanda, inspired both […]

According to reports from the Smithsonian and Chicago magazine, Google Arts & Culture is collaborating with digital archivists from the Chicago Defender and other Black newspapers such as the Dallas Post-Tribune, the Washington Informer and the Baltimore Afro-American to digitize their archives and maintain their legacy. This effort began in earnest when Angela Ford was searching […]

By Lewam Dejen As a Black woman, a diasporic transplant and a student in and of the West, I find myself in a sunken place within traditions of “collective history.” I am nowhere in the stories to which I devoted my everything. Many marginalized people know the struggle of holding tightly onto what decidedly unsees […]

When people contemplate the ways that anti-Blackness converges upon those of us who are of the Black African Diaspora – and who also identify as Black – they can make oppression seem insurmountable. The alternatives can seem both binary and grim: bury oneself in mountains of racist news, history and despair or bury one’s head […]

By michal “mj” jones She stares into the heart of the camera, a backdrop of ocean shore behind her and a swollen, pregnant brown belly below. Neck draped in seashells and her body in the watery spirits of Yemaya, she looks certain, calm, confident. As I gazed up at this photo of my partner during […]

During the weekend, Somali people, Muslim people, and people throughout the world with functional empathy, began a grieving process for those most impacted by an act of terrorism in a bustling East African area. On Saturday, a bomb attack was carried out—via an explosives-packed truck—in the capital city of Mogadishu. The attack caused an estimated […]

Sometimes, lightning does strike twice.  Simone Manuel’s done it again after winning gold at the world swimming championships in Budapest, Hungary.

HBO has reportedly given a green light to the creators of Game of Thrones to produce a series about a fictional world where the Confederacy won the Civil War and slavery is still legal south of the Mason-Dixie line. The reactions to this idea have been strong, yet polarizing. HBO's official announcement for new series CONFEDERATE […]

*This post contains spoilers of “The Girl With All The Gifts”, “The Birth of a Nation”, and “Get Out”* As someone who has studied and worked in film and television for most of my professional life, I have resigned myself to a set of facts: no film made for mass audiences is truly (or at […]

Ever since President George H.W. Bush has been in office, the Global Gag Rule has been repealed or reinstated almost immediately following the introduction of a new president. Democrats, such as Clinton and Obama, have always struck down the anti-abortion ruling while Trump has continued the tradition of his Republican counterparts by reestablishing it. While […]