’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...
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....
Jet Magazine Goes Digital-Only
Patrice Peck of BET.com is reporting that print publication Jet will exit the print business and go digital-only after 63 years...
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...
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...
South Africa: Mandela’s Family Denies Barring ANC Visitors
The Mail & Guardian (South Africa) is denying reports that former South African president Nelson Mandela's family has barred the African...
EXCLUSIVE: A Cappella Legends Take 6 Want People to ‘Respect Music More’
Take 6 is single-handedly one of American music’s most famous and celebrated vocal ensembles. The extremely talented, 10-time Grammy award-winning sextet’s...
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’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...
‘A Haunted House 2’: Marlon Wayans Talks Creating Roles for Characters of Color
Funnyman Marlon Wayans is the lead actor, co-writer and co-producer of A Haunted House 2, the sequel to his paranormal spoof...