The Green Space has posted a video of a discussion about being black in the United States and France that is timely in light of the recent attacks in Paris. On October 27, The Greene Space hosted a special screening of “Les ...
Alexander Alter of the New York Times reports Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “Between the World and Me,” a “visceral, blunt exploration of his experience of being a black man in America, whic...
Writing for The Root, The Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. discusses what it feels like to be a black girl assaulted in a classroom by an authority figure. Check out an excerpt below: ̶...
Craig Melvin and Erik Ortiz of NBC News are reporting that Deputy Ben Fields has been fired after video of him assaulting a high school student went viral. The reporters write: “The school resource officer who was caught on ...
CNN is reporting that a social media movement is calling for fans to boycott Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens, due in theaters December 18. While most fans lauded the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, a small fact...
Producer, songwriter, musician and bandleader James Mtume built his entire career from constant and intentional transformation. Usually alongside his collaborative partner Reggie Lucas, his Grammy-winning penmanship and knob-turni...
The debut of live streaming app Meerkat at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March sparked the beginning of the interactive live streaming age. Now, Periscope, Blab and Facebook have followed with their formats. With mobile-friendly ap...
Steve Almasy of CNN is reporting that reports prepared for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor by two experts say the police shooting death of Tamir Rice, an unarmed 12-year-old boy playing with a pellet gun, was “reasonable.R...
CNN is reporting that late Wednesday evening, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch posted a tweet that appeared to question whether President Obama is a “real black” president. Murdoch, 84, tweeted support for presidential cand...
Christina Colman of NewsOne is reporting that the Jefferson County, Alabama chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal a two murals that they deem to be racist and offensive. The two large murals found in the building’s...
