Photo credit: Philadelphia Citizen By Yasin Muhammad A smile and a friendly face go a long way. Mental Health in the black community is real and it is deadly. I just talked to a friend from Chicago who was immersed in gang life and he […]
By Viviane Faver The new coronavirus is spreading into African rural areas, where the public health system creaks: ICU units are full and turning patients away. After governments eased lockdowns, the continent registered 10,000-12,000 cases daily. After measures were softened, Kenya recorded nearly 90,000 infections […]
By Joséphine Li Amazon’s live streaming service, Twitch is home to millionaire content creators. The leading technology company had a big year in 2020 — Viewership in October reached 1.6 billion hours, twice that of the same month last year. Last week, Twitch issued […]
Stuart Davis was a New York artist of the 20th century best known for his playful Modernist paintings filled with bright colors and geometric shapes. But early in his career, he was influenced by the Ashcan School—and he stuck with the social realist style with this 1912 […]
‘I can’t wait for everyone to hear the incredibly interesting conversations I have had with my guests.’ Laverne Cox and Shonda Rhimes are joining forces on a weekly podcast series set to launch next year. The actor will host The Laverne Cox Show (w/t), that will feature “intimate” conversations […]
A 14-year-old painter has made it onto the latest cover of Time magazine thanks to LeBron James. Tyler Gordon’s painting of the NBA champion was featured on the magazine’s cover this week after the Los Angeles Lakers star was named, “Athlete Of The Year.” Gordon, who has […]
Malvin R. Goode was a pioneer in broadcast journalism, becoming the first African-American news correspondent for a major television network in 1962. Goode arrived at the pinnacle of his career later in life, but his accomplishment serves as a testament to the work ethic he developed […]
A popular Denver bookstore that has fallen on hard financial times due to the coronavirus pandemic has announced that it is selling the business, and will become the country’s largest Black-owned independent bookstore in the acquisition. The Tattered Cover owners Len Vlahos and Kristen […]
The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its official magazine, 110 years ago, in 1910. For almost two and a half decades, sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois served […]
The Minneapolis City Council has decided to devote a small portion of the city’s police budget to alternative methods of policing including violence prevention specialists and mental health crisis teams, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Washington Post. In a budget that was approved on […]
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