Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (AP Images) * Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are taking a step toward ensuring diversity at their production company. The actors will adopt inclusion riders for projects made through their Pearl Street Films, according to head of strategic outreach at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent. “We had to own our story to move beyond it,” […]
Verda Byrd was adopted by a black family, and grew up thinking she was a light-skinned black woman until 2014, when she found out her biological parents were both white, WLTX 19 reports. Byrd who published a book, Seventy Years of Blackness , in December […]
A never-before-seen 2006 interview with O.J. Simpson that was aired on Fox sent social media into a frenzy due to Simpson’s hypothetical account of his involvement in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Source: Frenzy over hypothetical O.J. […]
Black men sometimes find themselves in the position of having to push back against rules that require them to shave, whether it’s facial hair or their locks. One of the latest cases involves a former University of Pennsylvania police officer who filed a racial discrimination […]
A public park space in Baltimore that once honored two Confederate Army generals has been renamed for civil rights icon Harriet Tubman. Hundreds of people, including city officials and Tubman family members, gathered in Wyman Park Dell for the ceremony on Saturday, held on the […]
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