By Viviane Faver Aurora, Colorado lawyers, police officers, and doctors involved in Elijah McClain’s death filed several motions with the US Colorado District Court last week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by McClain’s family in August. The lawsuit alleges that discriminatory […]
What country do you live in? Racism is alive & well in the United States of America. This is a letter I have been meaning to write over the course of the past year while I have been active in the call for social justice. […]
(Photo: Getty Images) *(Via Politico) – President-elect Joe Biden has selected Rep. Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. The offer to lead the roughly $50 billion housing agency comes after weeks in which Fudge launched […]
By Mark Anthony Neal Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas and Deb Willis Styled by Alex Harrington PATTI LABELLE’S superpower is a spellbinding scream — a refined shriek, really — that makes hairs stand at attention, bones shiver and spines twist. It was 1975 when I first heard it. I […]
(CNN)It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. […]
When Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí first put a lobster on a dress, he wanted to be provocative. It worked. His 1937 collaboration with boundary pushing fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli caused consternation. The silk organza A-line gown they created together, subsequently worn by Wallis Simpson in the […]
A national police training association is facing backlash after distributing a research-style paper to its members that referred to Black Lives Matter as a “terrorist group,” and depicted protesters as wanting to “overthrow the U.S. government,” according to the Associated Press. A member of the International Law Enforcement Educators […]
School suspensions are intended to deter violence and punish students who demonstrate problematic behavior. Yet, when I interviewed 30 Black high school students in southeast Michigan who had been suspended from school and 30 of their parents, I learned that many students were suspended because school […]
` *UNESCO, IICBA (International Institute for building capacity in Africa) and the Paris based Cartooning For Peace will host two virtual training sessions and raising awareness webinars in English and in French, on how to use cartoon art to visually send messages on the themed “Silencing The Guns” […]
Hip Hop. The film’s title was a play on the Southern adage for children to be “seen and not heard” in public spaces, one to which I felt women and gender non-conforming folks on the hip hop scene were also unofficially (and sometimes officially) […]
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