Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett penned an open letter claiming that he was racially profiled and stopped by Las Vegas police after the Floyd Mayweather-vs.-Conor McGregor fight Aug. 26. According to…
The New York City Department of Education announced Wednesday that it will be providing free lunch to all public school students in the city during the 2017-2018 school year, which is a good thing, because no child in this country should be hungry, no matter his or her circumstance.
The Rev. Robert W. Lee IV, a direct descendant of the Civil War general whose name has become synonymous with the Confederacy, appeared on television and spoke out against racism and the riots in Charlottesville, Va., that happened during protests about the removal of a statue of his famous ancestor. Now Lee says…
Like hundreds of thousands of other people around the world, Tananarive Due saw Get Out earlier this year. Blown away by the hit horror movie, the author and educator decided to design a semester-long special course about how horror and anti-black racism have intertwined in the cinema.
Amazon’s second straight tech sale, half off a popular sound bar, and Gobblet lead off Wednesday’s best deals from around the web.
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Jessica Alexandre has spent the last few days walking through her home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., deciding what she’ll pack into her Hyundai Elantra and what will be left behind before she and her family caravan north to her mother’s house in Atlanta on Thursday morning. Old family heirlooms, her father’s military…
Because I’m a weird and curmudgeonly fuck who doesn’t go to clubs and while driving listens only to Waze and Spotify playlists mostly consisting of Kanye and the Inception soundtrack, before last weekend, I’d heard about Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” more times than I had actually heard it. By a pretty significant margin,…
I know, I know. You’re big. You’re strong. You ain’t no punk. I know you would never run from something named “Irma.” After all, what kind of name is Irma? Irmas bake pies. Irmas serve on the Usher Board. Irmas have furniture with lace doilies in their living rooms. But Hurricane Irma is not a regular Irma. Hurricane…
Legislators in Charlottesville, Va., voted Tuesday night to remove a statue of yet another Confederate general, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett penned an open letter claiming that he was racially profiled and stopped by Las Vegas police after the Floyd Mayweather-vs.-Conor McGregor fight Aug. 26. According to Bennett’s Twitter post, he was leaving the T-Mobile Arena when he and others in the crowd heard what they…
I despise trolls. Internet trolls do not bother me. In fact, I find them piteous. I feel sorry for people whose lives are so devoid of meaning or filled with privilege that their only respite is to attempt to upset others on social media. They are hilariously sad.
As noted writer and transgender advocate Raquel Willis once declared, trans women are women. And so it follows that black trans women should be able to attend one of the world’s premier HBCUs created just for black women.
There was a time in the not-so-distant past that black men who told on slaves who tried to escape slavery earned themselves some extra comforts from their master. Maybe they got an extra pig foot at dinner. Maybe they got an actual bed to sleep in that night, or maybe they got an extra-long rub on the top of their…
If Jason Whitlock were a character on Game of Thrones or The Wire or even Insecure, we’d presumably have a better understanding of the mélange of context creating the sad person he is today. We’d be able to point to a conversation from season 1, or perhaps a relationship gone awry from season 2, or a terrible incident…
In the latest win for white supremacy, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas can move forward in its bid to implement a “draconian” voter-identification law, at least temporarily.
The fall season is near, and I have to be honest: I don’t care about trees changing colors (I live in Los Angeles, where it’s green ... everywhere), and pumpkin spice makes me as excited as a vegan lion. But what I am enthusiastic about is what autumn entertainment will bring. Whether it’s the return of an oldie or…
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A Charlotte, N.C., mayoral candidate is coming under fire for listing the obvious fact that she’s white as one of her qualifications for the job.
Facing a decade and a half in prison couldn’t stop her. Losing a loved one to suicide didn’t destroy her. Battling loss and pain while raising three children was not enough to make her quit.
Hot off the heels of yesterday’s storage and networking Gold Box, Amazon’s running a new one-day sale today on things that could broadly be considered PC accessories.
