14 Search results for "water consumption"

Beyoncé, UNICEF and Gucci partnership brings $1 million support for clean water project in Burundi
Beyoncé and Parkwood Entertainment, her management company, are celebrating Women’s History Month and World Water Day through partnerships with a humanitarian organization and luxury brand to provide clean, safe water to people in the East African nation of Burundi. As Essence reported in an exclusive interview with Ivy McGregor, Parkwood’s director of philanthropy and corporate relations, […]
Will and Jaden Smith’s company Just Water donates fresh water to a still struggling Flint, MI
Artist-entrepreneur father and son pair Will and Jaden Smith’s want to use their resources and reach to help the people of Flint, Michigan. Papa and Son Smith, through their company Just Water, are providing Flint residents with water fit for human consumption. So far, Just Water has donated 9,200 bottles of water to a community […]
Worried about Bottles of Water, while People Wade through Floods: What about Nashville?
“Our visions begin with our desires.” –Audre Lorde For the last three weeks I’ve literally sat on pins and needles worried about my family/friends in Nashville. I’ve clicked channel after channel hoping for a news update about the widespread flooding in the city. Each time I went searching for news I was bombarded by corporate […]
Looking to the Blues as record of Black folks’ loss and longing
by Donnie Moreland This essay mentions domestic violence. August Wilson once noted, “The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in.” I believe this to be true, in so far as the Blues may no longer […]
Childhood trauma and pornographic visions of the Black phallus made me ashamed of masturbation
Editor’s Note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the month that we celebrate Mother’s Day. At BYP, we will be exploring these topics alongside the theme of Imagination and the Arts, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. This […]
Delectable Negroes: On precarity, death, and the Black queer male body
by Robert Randolph, Jr., Ph.D. This essay contains discussions of sexual violence, lynching, and the serial murder of queer Black men. Writer’s Note: The Deputy Editor invited me to write about this subject and I have carried these men, the named and unnamed in my head for weeks. I blew the deadline time and time […]
The Black church isn’t one-dimensional either: How Gullah-Geechee people subvert Christianity to retain Black history
By Ari Colston-Johnson To many, the Black Church calls to mind horror stories of cisheteropatriarchy and theologies shaped by colonialism, white supremacy, and respectability politics. But coming of age in the Gullah-Geechee African Methodist Episcopal (AME) tradition, the Black Church was a foundation for my radical politics, a space for community and Afrocentric syncretism, and […]
Report: ‘Imprisoned Justice’ Details Life Inside Immigrant Detention Centers
On May 4, Project South and the Penn State Law Center for Immigrant’s Rights Clinic released “Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigration Detention Centers,” a report based on interviews at the Stewart Detention Center and the Irwin County Detention Center.
There’s a deeper message behind that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad
What do you get when you mix a thin, pretty, young, celebrity model (from the Kardashian brood no less) with a corporatized imaginary protest? If you guessed trash, congratulations. That’s what Pepsi gave us. You also get a glimpse of the image many white people have in their minds of corporations, consumers, and social issues. And, it’s a […]
Four Ways Patriarchy Became The Norm In My Romantic Life
This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos. I recently watched a video where trans men explained the idea of male privilege. In the video, they talked about how, after transitioning, they experienced a sense of freedom when walking down the street and moving in public spaces. They noticed that people stopped cutting them off […]
Frat booted off campus after offensive MLK-themed party
Arizona State University has banned recognition of a fraternity on its campus after it threw an offensive MLK-themed party. Tau Kappa Epsilon’s presence was permanently revoked after their “MLK Black Party” left many on the campus offended.
Raise The Roof DC Style
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, we don’t need no water let that mother f*** burn. There are many things that John Boehner (R-OH) is good at doing: crying, blaming liberals, crying while blaming liberals. One thing he probably can’t do is the dance ‘raise the roof’. I’m not saying Republicans can’t […]