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Queer Black Woman Park Cannon Elected to Georgia House
Park Cannon, a health advocate from Atlanta, just won a runoff election that will make her the third openly queer member of Georgia’s House of Representatives.
Black Separatists do not belong on SPLC’s list of hate groups
by Kamali Senior Last December, a man and his son were arrested for unlawful possession of firearms in Dallas, Texas. The FBI raided their home, the son and the father were separated, and two assault rifles were seized by the authorities, along with a book titled Negroes with Guns. This is the result of being […]
From the Million Woman March to #Metoo: How movements created by and for Black women are appropriated
by Jacquelyn Iyamah In October of 1997, an estimated 750,000 Black women congregated on Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia for the Million Woman March. Spearheaded by Phile Chionsesu and Asia Coney, the march provided a forum for the issues that mainstream women’s rights movements often dismiss—the issues affecting Black women. Concerns about the abuses against […]
Black Nerd Problems Editor: “Why We Won’t Be Reviewing ‘The Birth Of A Nation’ Upon It’s Release
This piece was originally written by William Evans, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of BlackNerdProblems.com. ***Trigger Warning For Sexual Assault***There was a point a few years ago where I wanted to be done with period films and TV shows. Either they had so few Black people in them it was as if we were to believe they […]
Feature: We still lie about slavery, Here’s the truth about how the American economy and power were built on forced migration and torture
The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Edward E. Baptist. By: Edward E. Baptist Excerpted from “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” 1937 A beautiful late April day, seventy-two years after slavery ended in the United States. Claude Anderson parks his car on the side of Holbrook […]
4 Dead, 29 Wounded In Another Bloody Chicago Weekend
Four people are dead, including a 13 year-old boy, and 29 others are wounded after yet another incredibly bloody weekend in the Windy City. What will it take to stem the tide of violence in Chicago?
New training is only a band-aid for police brutality
New training is only a band-aid for police brutality Monique W. Morris, The Grio | July 27, 2011 The tensions between law enforcement and community are high in cities across the country where there have been a number of police involved shootings this year. The relationship has been strained for decades, where incidents of police […]
Today in Post-Race History: Dear John
Dear John Mayer, Dude, wtf? I was in New Mexico off grid for a few days; I get back home to the Chi, and every straight black girl with a blog now hates you. I had a message in my Facebook inbox with a link to your Playboy interview, so I figured it out. Note […]