Few words are more heart-wrenching to hear from your child than “I wish I didn’t look the way I do” or “I wish I wasn’t my race.” Those words can spring from a variety of painful experiences: A taunting on the playground for having “different” […]
Viviane Faver A Brooklyn-based group called Safe Walks NYC offers safe walking from subway stations in response to violence in the neighborhood. In an exclusive interview for the New York Beacon, founder Peter Kerre -also founder of Street Riders NYC and involved in the Black […]
By Viviane Faver Norwegian Socialist Party member Lars Haltbrekken announced his appointment on Monday: “Abrams’ work follows in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight for equality before the law and civil rights. American Woman Says She’s Being ‘Deported’ From Bali […]
London (CNN)The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the virus, rather than simply preventing symptomatic infections, UK researchers have suggested.The rate of positive PCR tests declined by about half after two doses, according to preliminary results by researchers at the University of Oxford that […]
Throughout the history of the United States, the collective economic potential of Black America has been under attack in many forms. Even after the legislative abolition of Black slavery (which realistically only occurred on paper), systemic measures were taken by America’s ruling establishment. These measures […]
By Jane E. Brody Melting ice caps, warmer oceans, intense storms, heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires — all these well-documented effects of climate change may seem too remote to many people to prompt them to adopt behaviors that can slow the warming of the planet. […]
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Winold Reiss (c. 1925) / National Portrait Gallery Langston Hughes (pictured) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was born on February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art […]
Prime Video’s Amplify Black Voices page will be updated starting Feb. 1 to feature a curated collection of titles to honor Black History Month across four weekly themes- Black Joy (week 1), Black Love (week 2), Black History Makers (week 3) and Black Girl Magic (week 4). […]
Some good will follow all the unrest and sadness that took place in 2020. Part of that unrest were the many protests against racist violence, which included the long-overdue downing of several Confederate statues and monuments across the country. Last year was also characterized by sadness for the many lives lost, […]
(CNN)The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian MP Petter Eide nominated the global movement “for their struggle against racism and racially motivated violence,” he wrote in his official nomination papers, which were obtained by CNN.“BLM’s call for […]
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