Film director Spike Lee has erected a memorial outside his Fort Greene studio for Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father of six who died while being arrested by police in Staten Island. Garner died on July 18 after police placed him in a chokehold, an illegal move, for selling loose cigarettes.Â
The family of a man who was fatally shot by an undercover member of the NYPD has settled with the city for $2 million. Shem Walker, 49, was gunned down after he tried to eject a detective from loitering on the stoop of his elderly grandmother’s apartment building in Fort Greene. Walker was […]
In December, we reported that Taj Patterson, a black, gay New York fashion student, was attacked by five Hasidic men while walking home from a night out. The men have since been charged in connection to the incident.Â
A black New York fashion student says he was attacked by a group of men who shouted anti-gay slurs at him while walking home after a night of partying. 22-year-old Taj Patterson was headed home to Fort Greene around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 when more than a dozen Orthodox Jewish men assaulted him on […]
This story originally appeared in the New York Times. By: Andrea Elliot She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet. […]
Students at Paul Robeson High School in NYC plan on taking part in Occupy’s May Day activities by staging a massive walkout tomorrow at noon EST. They’re demanding the quality education they deserve. Will you stand with them?
Toni Griffin, a leading visionary in the field of architecture and design, recently won the Design Competition for Chouteau Greenway in St. Louis despite subverting the intended aims of the competition. Griffin’s proposal was inclusive of streets and pathways populated by historically marginalized people, connecting them and their neighborhoods to the landmark Gateway Arch which sits […]
By Sherronda Brown “When I want something, it’s fucking easy for me.” – Miley Cyrus, the self-ordained savior of our nation The words “Dumpster Fyre” hover above the head of Miley Cyrus on the cover of Billboard Magazine. Even though they refer to the debacle at Fyre Festival in which rich white kids were finessed […]
We recently had the pleasure of spending some time talking to Chicago MC, Jessica Disu aka FM Supreme, about her seat right at the intersection of hip-hop music and social activism. She also provided some gems about the significance of travel in self-improvement and the controversy surrounding her appearance on FOX News calling for the […]
The following piece is from EBONY. It was written by David Wall Rice and Shaun R. Harper By: David Wall Rice and Shaun R. Harper For a host of mostly ridiculous reasons—including the fabled post-racialism—questions are repeatedly posed about the relevance and status of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). And frankly, the question is kind […]
These are my top five albums of 2011, thus far. Pick these records up if you haven’t already, and let us in on some of your personal faves….
