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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 […]

This past Monday, 46-year old Albert Weathers, a Detroit pastor, was charged with the murder of 36-year old Kelly Stough, a Black trans woman. She was killed in Detroit’s Palmer Park neighborhood.

by Donnie Moreland This essay contains descriptions of sexual violence, including r/pe When I looked at her, I felt nauseous. Here she was, a college friend of mine, recounting a time when she had asked a group of Black male acquaintances the question, “How many of you have ever fucked a girl while she was […]

The Canadian House of Commons and Senate approved the legalization of marijuana in June. On Oct. 18, the law finally went into effect and not only did stores start selling recreational marijuana, those with past pot convictions were also pardoned.

In the years between Victor Halerpin’s White Zombie (1932) and Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017), Blackness in the horror genre has largely been a myriad of hidden slavery narratives featuring gendered anti-Black violence and racist dehumanization. Excepting the stories that include Black characters as tokens or magical negroes who ensure the survival of white characters—usually […]

While top universities are removing Confederate monuments, Harvard is going one step further by owning up to its past connections to slavery. Harvard Law School has unveiled a memorial honoring the slaves whose labor built the wealth the institution was founded on, according to Harvard Law Today.

One of the most active churches on Chicago’s South Side is caught up in controversy and protest after kicking out a long-time member following her wedding ceremony to her partner, a woman. “Her grandmother was a member, her mother was a member and she was a member for 30 years. All of this ended last […]

Many of the most well-respected institutions in the United States have a history deeply connected to slavery. Harvard University, which many consider to be the pinnacle of higher education, has taken a commendable step towards a better future by acknowledging its own connections to slavery. 

By: Kelvin L. Easiley, Jr. Where does one seek solace when faith fails? Where do the lost find shelter when the leaders that claim to love them preach “death and hell fire” for the simple act of existing? When the music that once soothed and brought peace only sounds like a cacophony of chaos and […]

Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald has seen the same video we all have of a police officer’s interaction with Jacqueline Craig after she called authorities because her neighbor allegedly choked her seven-year-old son for littering. He also watched the situation escalate on film as the officer forcibly arrested Craig and her two teenaged daughters after implying […]

Police have a long history of conflict with communities of color for a very, very long time. It’s not too much of a stretch to assume that this checkered past plays a role in today’s strained relationship between the two. Terrence Cunningham, president of the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police, took the opportunity to apologize. 

    A jet that crashed Sunday near Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama killed all nine people on board, including prominent pastor Myles Munroe.