By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer In a long-overdue act of accepting responsibility, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chose to own up to massacring a Black neighborhood 35 years ago. Any Black American person who is old enough traumatically remembers the May 13, […]
Eighty-four percent of Indigenous women have experienced violence in their lifetime and Native Americans are four times more likely to go missing in the state of Montana, according to data from Blackfeet Community College (BCC), which recently launched the website MMIP Montana to track missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) in their state. As […]
The Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” starring Jennifer Hudson, has been pushed back to summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the second time the film has been delayed. “Respect” is now moving from Jan. 15, 2021 to Aug. 13, 2021. What we can learn […]
By Viviane Faver The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, stepped down days after the Washington Post documented “relentless racism” suffered by the Black cadets at the state-sponsored school. The retired four-star general wrote in a public resignation […]
Beyoncé is once again using her platform to speak out in solidarity for those in the fight against police brutality happening in Nigeria. On Tuesday ( Oct 20) Beyoncé took to Instagram to share her support of protestors and activists fighting on the frontlines of the #EndSARS movement and […]
While many questions linger about what a pandemic-era Oscars ceremony will look like, this is now certain: Chadwick Boseman will get major consideration for awards. The “Black Panther” star, who died in August at age 43 after a private battle with cancer, will be in the running in […]
The former working royals have launched the charitable website that inspired their son’s name Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a short break from enjoying their seven-month-old son Archie to launch their new website. The couple joined forces for their new site, Archewell.com, which launched on Tuesday for their Archewell […]
On Monday, Oct. 19, Oklahoma archeologists and forensic scientists began to excavate an area of a Tulsa cemetery that is thought to be the “Original 18” site, a section of Oaklawn Cemetery believed to be the burial place of 18 Black victims of the 1921 […]
By Joséphine Li As the Black Lives Matter movement swept across America a few months ago, corporate America promised to help advance racial justice and equality. But many questioned what specific initiatives business leaders would take in order to do so. On October 15, the […]
(CNN)Alabama State University (ASU) is the latest entity to remove the name of a controversial figure from its building. The university removed the name of former Alabama governor Bibb Graves from a residence hall on Wednesday. Graves was propelled into political power in the […]
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