Former President Barack Obama issued a statement Tuesday congratulating Sen. Kamala Harris on earning the Democratic Party’s nomination for vice president. According to BET, Harris is positioned to be the first Black and South Asian woman to be vice president, should she and Biden win the […]
Written by Nina G. Jablonski, Pennsylvania State University and George Chaplin, Pennsylvania State University OPINION—Race-thinking has been discredited for decades. But it is still with us. Yet race is a historical contingency, not a state of nature. One of the most sinister things about race is that its sibling, […]
With the federal civil rights lawsuit, the McClain family said they were seeking accountability for the loss of a ‘beautiful soul’ DENVER (AP) — The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped him on the street […]
By Joséphine Li Nintendo, The Japanese video game company had a phenomenal lockdown-hit quarter—that’s April through June, and its sales are still skyrocketing—as their social simulation video game Animal Crossing continues to be a sales juggernaut that drives purchases of the Switch hardware. The […]
The violence experienced by Black trans people, particularly Black trans women and femmes, has been an issue for decades, but has yet to get the widespread attention it so desperately needs and deserves. There have been many killings of Black trans and gender non-binary/non-comforming […]
Singer and songwriter FKA twigs announced a joint GoFundMe venture to benefit sex workers during the coronavirus pandemic on social media on Tuesday. The Cheltenham, U.K. native shared a post on Instagram discussing her experience as a hostess at a gentlemen’s club, how sex workers have influenced her work […]
Pending a final vote in the Legislature, Gov. Murphy will have 45 days to sign S2519/A4235 from the July 30 vote By Evelyn J. Mendez TRENTON – Today, the process of passing the bill to create a public health emergency credit that releases people who are approaching the end […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the […]
OPINION—As an actor on Tyler Perry’s BET’s drama series The Oval, going back to work in the midst of COVD-19, and the current racial justice movement, is a daunting idea. However, I feel extremely excited. I know that for all the perils we face, Tyler […]
(Photo credits: www.artbusiness.com) by Viviane Faver One of the most extensive African American art galleries in the United States, the ZuCot Gallery in Atlanta, announced this week an exhibition by Chukes, one of the most dynamic artists in the country in […]
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