On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was killed while jogging through a mostly white neighborhood in Brunswick, GA. Arbery who was a standout athlete and once dreamed of a career in the NFL, was by all acc...
(April 17) – Hollywood’s powerhouse writer and director Kenya Barris is at it again with #blackAF, debuting today on the streaming giant Netflix. The acclaimed showrunner who brought the juggernaut sitcom Black-ish to ...
Fresh from our, ‘What Now?” file, Okay Africa is reporting Africans in China are being forcefully evicted from their housing because they are blamed or what we would call scapegoated for spread of the Coronavirus also ...
April 9, 2002 (Sacramento) – The California Department of Public Health released race and ethnicity data related to COVID-19. The information, representing 37% of COVID-19 cases and 39% of deaths, shows the race and ethnicit...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard the most recent high-profile case of the killing of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, who was shot and killed by former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, whil...
In 1963, 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. ’63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest Northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around ...
In a photo gallery, Chantal Martineau of the Huffington Post shares different New Year’s Eve traditions that occur throughout the African Diaspora. Martineau highlights “Watch Night,” which began with pray...
Writing for MPR News, Riham Feshir discusses the great demand for Santas of color in the United States. The article highlights Santa Larry who can be found at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. In the article, Larry Jeffer...
As part of Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Academy award-winning actor Mahershala Ali sits down to chat with rising star John David Washington about his film Green Book and season 3 of HBO’s third season of T...
Writing for The Guardian, Jamiles Lartey discusses the documentary, “Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland,” which premieres tonight at 10 p.m. on HBO. Lartey chats with Shante Needham, Sandra Bland’s...
