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In 2007, Kevin Morton Jr. was a 22-year-old college student who worked nights at a Detroit Arby’s. His plan was to work through school and go into pharmaceuticals. Then he was robbed one night while closing, shot in the abdomen and left with a 10 percent chance to live through the night. With the help of Dr. […]

When I DJ I catch the unholy ghost. An electric shock flows through my arms; and when the record hits my finger tips, the funkadelic movement shimmy towards my wrist. Blended music surrounds my ear drums as I begin birthing new born tracks with the umbilical cord still attached. A slight cut from the mixer […]

Somewhere in Chicago the most promising band has its members contorting their bodies a few more times before it pries open the mouths of audiences across the world. Whether the gesture be frantic fingertips of an emcee, a rattling head of a saxophone player, or a subtle hand-to-thigh clap of a singer, the soul of […]

SPOILERS AHEAD! Don’t @ me. Over the weekend, Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out scared audiences all over the nation with that age old American horror: anti-Black racism. The premise is simple enough: a white girl, Rose, brings home her Black boyfriend, Chris, to meet her parents in a wealthy, white suburb in upstate New York.

A pair of young boys in Ford Heights, IL are now being credited for saving the life of a 9-year-old girl that was in the middle of a kidnapping by a park district employee. Thanks to them, the girl was safely returned to her family after a presumably traumatizing experience. 

As reported in the AJC, seventeen-year-old Jaydon Lee Reid from Cobb County, Georgia was just given two life sentences and an additional fifteen years for the shooting of Terrence Banks and Sterling Hargrave when he was fourteen years old. While much work around juvenile justice and reducing prison sentences focuses on commuting the sentences or […]

Ava DuVernay and Lupita Nyong’o are two of the most talented people in today’s film industry, one a director, the other an actress. Fortunately for many of their fans, they’re both also black women and are great representations of what can be accomplished with opportunity. The two may now be coming together to work on […]

A 5-year-old girl is being hailed as a hero after making a phone call that saved the life of her 90-year-old caregiver. Mildred Morris has spent most of her life caring for young children, but it was a little girl who cared for her this time. 

Thanks to quick thinking and knowledge of his ABCs, kindergartner Nathaniel Dancy Jr. was able to save his father’s life.  Nathaniel Sr. suffered a stroke while driving down the highway with his son. He was able to pull the car over, but was thereafter incapacitated. Nathaniel Jr. sprung into action, calling his grandmother, who then initiated a three-way […]

by Miranda Goosby Grief isn’t always sad. Sometimes, grief is a portal. It cracks something open. It clears space. If we allow ourselves to surrender to the breaking, grief can become more than sorrow—it can reveal what’s been buried. It can offer honesty, possibility, and even joy. After the 2024 election, when yet another administration […]

By Johnae Strong  A film by Johnaé Strong Some works capture the beauty of Black life.Others hold its tension, its memory, its muscle.This one does all of that—and then breathes into it. Black Things Today, directed by Johnaé Strong, is a cinematic offering rooted in presence, ritual, and return. Told through the lives of three […]

by Donnie Moreland My grandfather—my mother’s father—participated in the first sit-ins in Greenville, South Carolina. My grandfather is a military veteran. He patrolled the tomb of the unknown soldier, was employed as a manufacturer with the Department of Defense and was a supervisor, in the Pentagon, when Flight 77 made contact with the building at […]