Voters in North Carolina, this week brought new levels of prominence to minorities in law enforcement by electing black sheriffs in all seven counties in the state. Five of those counties – Cumberland, Guilford, Buncombe, Forsyth and Durham – made history as they elected black sheriffs for […]
The police always deny that they have a racial double standard, but an experiment at a Tennessee mall tells a different story. A social media post from four white women on Saturday exposed the Memphis Police and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office for racially […]
In August of 2019, it will mark the auspicious 400-year anniversary of when an English ship brought a small group of enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia. While this technically wasn’t the first time that black slaves were bought to the Americas, it is generally considered […]
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard College’s daily newspaper, recently reported that Kristine E. Guillaume, Class of 2020, was elected to lead the 146th Guard as the paper’s President. Guillaume is the first black woman to serve as President of The Crimson in its 145-year history. Migrant caravan: Hundreds reach […]
Hundreds of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to seek asylum in the US have reached the Mexican border city of Tijuana. The group of 400, who include LGBTQ migrants, broke away from the larger caravan of 5,000 people in Mexico City. Nijla Mu’min’s […]
Nijla Mu’min grew up in a predominantly Black Muslim community in the Bay Area. As a writer-director, she examines the challenges that many young people struggle with as they become exposed to the outside world. In her first feature film, she introduces Summer Jennings, a carefree Black […]
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