’63 Boycott’: GPB Offers Free Online Screening of Civil Rights Doc
In 1963, 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. '63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the...
Ahmaud Arbery: Georgia Man Killed While Jogging
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was killed while jogging through a mostly white neighborhood in Brunswick,...
Kendrick Johnson Death: Independent Autopsy Yields Suspicious Results
CNN is reporting that suspicions surrounding the death of Georgia high school student Kendrick Johnson have not been put to rest....
OpEd: Silence of White Theaters on Anti-Black Violence is Deafening
OpEd written by Dr. Monica Ndounou
It is hard not to notice how white theaters profit from staging Black death and trauma...
A Kofi Awoonor Poem: ‘We Have Found a New Land’
We Have Found a New Land by Kofi Awoonor
The smart professionals in three piece
Sweating away their humanity in dribblets
And...
Kendrick Johnson’s Body Exhumed for Second Autopsy
WTXL-TV in Tallahassee is reporting that the body of Kendrick Johnson, the 17-year-old high school student whose body was found rolled...
Len Bias is Posthumously Going into the Hall of Fame
The internet is celebrating news that late basketball legend Len Bias will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Bias...
Kendrick Johnson's Body Exhumed for Second Autopsy
WTXL-TV in Tallahassee is reporting that the body of Kendrick Johnson, the 17-year-old high school student whose body was found rolled...
Ira Curry: Black Woman Wins Mega Millions Jackpot
Jason Hanna and Steve Almasy of CNN are reporting that a 56-year-old woman has won half of the second-largest Mega Millions...
Nsenga Burton, Ph.D. Appears on Dr. Phil to Discuss ‘Karen Phenomenon’
The Burton Wire's Nsenga Burton, Ph.D. appeared on the Dr. Phil Show to discuss the, "Karen Phenomenon." Karen is a term...