‘Start Turning Down Roles That Are Meant for a Dark Skin Actor’: Netflix Gets Called Out for Colorism after Zazie Beetz is Casted as Stagecoach Mary

Netflix recently unveiled its trailer for its upcoming western film “The Harder They Fall.” The movie is based on real historical outlaws and cowboys and features an all-Black cast, but one star’s inclusion has sparked outrage from fans eager to see the project. FX’s “Atlanta” actress Zazie […]

It’s hard to believe this unspoiled beach is Coney Island in the 1870s

Before the Cyclone, before Nathan’s, before the boardwalk, sideshows, amusement parks, bathhouses, mass numbers of beachgoers wading into the surf, Coney Island was an actual island where settlers in the English colony at Gravesend let their animals graze, according to Brooklyn magazine. Coney’s transformation into the world’s most famous […]

Janelle Monáe releases new, star-studded version of ‘Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout)’

The song now features appearances from Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Chlöe x Halle and more In partnership with the African American Policy Forum, Janelle Monáe has released a new song “Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout),” with some star-studded features. Back in 2015, while marching in Black Lives Matter […]

Mother of Black Child Seen Held by Officer In Post Claiming the Child Was Saved from ‘Lawlessness’ Will Receive $2M from Philadelphia: ‘We’re Sorry’

A Black woman who was separated from her toddler son during a violent arrest last year will receive $2 million from the city of Philadelphia. During the October 2020 arrest, Rickia Young was bloodied then taken to jail, and separated from her son as the city dealt […]