How African American Activists are Influencing Latinos
Black-Brown Unity to End Police Impunity rally at San Francisco’s City Hall, March 2016. Photo: Ray Balberan. By Aaron Fountain | Black Perspectives …
How I Learned to Love My Natural Hair in a Society That Likes Straight & Blond
by ROCHAUN MEADOWS-FERNANDEZ | BYRDIE “Any further questions?” the interviewer asked as we reached the end of the Q&A portion of the interview. “Not …
Undoing racism, segregation through school choice
BY DWIGHT MONTGOMERY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR | THE HILL A new report from the Center for American Progress perpetuates the misguided notion that today’s …
The Problem With HBO’s Confederate Is That the Legacy of Slavery Isn’t an Alt-History Fantasy, It’s Our Reality
Charles Pulliam-Moore | IO9 What do you feel when you see the Confederate American flag? For some, it’s a patriotic symbol of their southern American …
Georgetown enslaved her ancestors. Now she’s an incoming student.
By Wilborn P. Nobles III, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Elizabeth Thomas believes almost every black person in the U.S. has an idea that their ancestors were …
‘Black Panther,’ ‘Luke Cage,’ and the Rise of Black Superheroes on Screen
Daniel Holloway | Variety This story first appeared in the July 19, 2017 issue of Variety. When “Luke Cage” exec producer Cheo Hodari Coker declared at …
Groundbreaking project explores Black experience in the GTA
By NICHOLAS KEUNG | The Star Whenever he is asked about his racial identity, Carl James always says “Black” instead of Antiguan, especially in Canada, …
Black Motherhood and the Limits of Empathy
By Sasha Turner | Black Perspectives Although it has been months since the controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting, “Open Casket,” which depicted …
How the terror of lynchings in the past haunts us today and our future
By Jonathan Capehart | The Washington Post Two years ago, the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Ala., shook us out of our collective …
Race, Homosexuality, and the AIDS Epidemic
By Dan Royles | Black Perspectives In “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic,” her recent cover story for New York Times Magazine, Linda Villarosa documents …
SoHa? Harlem bristles at neighborhood nickname
Deepti Hajela and Michael Noble Jr., Associated Press | Source, SFGate NEW YORK (AP) — In Harlem, a furor has erupted over what was supposed to be a simple, …
Why are nooses appearing at schools, business and more? ‘Permission to be hateful’
BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG AND CAITLIN DICKERSON, The New York Times | Source, Miami Herald WASHINGTON - It was the beginning of a night shift last week at the …
While Black Boys Are Fast-Tracked to Prison, the Pipeline to the Classroom Remains Blocked for Black Male Teachers
By Gus T. Renegade | Atlanta Black Star A Black male teacher in the New York City public school system joined a recent Q&A with Black male studies …
Reports of the Death of Jim Crow Prove Greatly Exaggerated
By Bill Morris | The Daily Beast Who was—who is—Jim Crow? For the record, he is both much less and much more than a man. In 1828, an elderly black …
Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party
By Christopher F. Petrella | Black Perspectives Not long ago I had the opportunity to visit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black …
Dear white people: Frederick Douglass explains the Trump resistance in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Chauncey DeVega | SALON Every year on this day I read Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” This apex of …
Sofia Coppola’s Blatant Erasure of Black Women in The Beguiled Highlights How White Women Are Complicit in White Supremacy
Clarkisha Kent | The Root It’s been quite a busy couple of months for white women. After 53 percent of them handed Donald Trump the election at the …
#WalkingWhileBlack: Video Shows Fla. Cop Threatening to Jail Black Man for Crossing the Street, Not Having ID
Breanna Edwards | The Root A young black man in Jacksonville, Fla., was harassed by a local sheriff’s officer after he was allegedly caught in the horrific …