As major cities in the United States are in utter and complete chaos over the continued failure to protect or defend the lives of unarmed black folks killed by rogue police officers and vigilantes, a social media campaign emerged ...
Writing for Courier Newsroom, The Burton Wire’s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton discusses the misplaced anger surrounding the national uprisings against police brutality in response to the killing of George Fl...
OpEd written by Dr. Monica Ndounou It is hard not to notice how white theaters profit from staging Black death and trauma but say nothing in response to anti-Black violence like the lynching of George Floyd and multiple attacks ag...
Tutwiler, a new documentary short directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon (Heroin(e), Recovery Boys) and reported and produced by The Marshall Project’s Alysia Santo, offers an unforgettable window i...
Health and Human Services whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright will testify before a House committee on Thursday, May 14. During his testimony on scientific integrity, the career public servant and scientist will ask President Trump to n...
The Twitterverse is in mourning after reports legendary music executive Andre Harrell was found dead today in his Los Angeles apartment. The Bronx native was one half of the rap duo Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. In the early 198...
Hey Gen Xers! Here is something you can watch with the kids or grandkids while taking a trip down memory lane. The Fraggles make their return in Apple’s “Fraggle Rock: Rock On!,” a new, original collection of mini-episodes, produc...
You may recall two weeks ago, using the social media platform Twitter, a student asked former president Barack Obama to deliver a virtual 2020 Commencement address for all 2020 graduates due to cancellations because of the Coronav...
Ursula Roberts-Allen has been a nurse in the Washington, DC area for over 30 years. In this video posted to her Facebook page, Roberts-Allen lists some of the symptoms black people are exhibiting that differ from the symptoms bein...
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...
