#Blackout Tuesday: The Problem With this Symbolic Protest
As major cities in the United States are in utter and complete chaos over the continued failure to protect or defend...
George Floyd Uprisings: Property Is Not More Important Than Black Lives
Writing for Courier Newsroom, The Burton Wire's founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton discusses the misplaced anger surrounding the national uprisings...
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...
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,...
#blackAF: Kenya Barris’ Debut Netflix Show Streams Today
(April 17) - Hollywood's powerhouse writer and director Kenya Barris is at it again with #blackAF, debuting today on the streaming...
COVID-19: Africans in China Being Blamed & Evicted
Fresh from our, 'What Now?" file, Okay Africa is reporting Africans in China are being forcefully evicted from their housing because...
Covid-19: Racial Disparities Exist Amongst Af-Ams & Latinos
April 9, 2002 (Sacramento) - The California Department of Public Health released race and ethnicity data related to COVID-19.
The information, representing...
Atatiana Jefferson: So What She Owns a Gun? It’s Her Right
Unless you've been living under a rock, you have heard the most recent high-profile case of the killing of Atatiana Jefferson,...
’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...
African Diaspora: New Year’s Eve Traditions
In a photo gallery, Chantal Martineau of the Huffington Post shares different New Year's Eve traditions that occur throughout the African...