Getting You Ready for “Black Panther”

By L.A. Williams Contributing Scribe For over a decade, Marvel Comics has been on a juggernaut roll with the quality and successes of their movies and TV shows. Now, their newest flick has some of today’s most recognizable and acclaimed Black actors, including Chadwick Boseman, […]

FLICK-CHAT Frances McDormand Delivers in Dark Comedy

By Kam Williams Senior Movie Critic Twenty years ago, Frances McDormand won an Academy Award for “Fargo,” a delightful whodunit set in a tiny Minnesota town inhabited by a cornucopia of colorful local yokels. In that Coen Brothers’ black comedy, she played a dedicated police […]

New Yorkers Protest Misogyny Spewed By Trump!

Men and Women standing side-by-side in silence on 6th Ave in Manhattan. Brick patterned worker suits making a human wall to give some attention to the misogyny spewed by Trump over the last year. Each brick has some of the quotes, “Nasty Woman,” “Degenerate,” “Grab […]

Imam Alfred Mohammed Elected Councilman in Linden, New Jersey

By Yusef Salaam ContributingScribe        Imam Alfred Mohammed was recently sworn in as a Councilman in Linden, New Jersey, a town of 40,499 denizens, 10,888 African Americans. A representative of the Fourth Ward, he was one of the two freshly elected members. The Imam-the city’s […]

Black History Month/OUR ROOTS- From Zero to Achievers

Black History Month/OUR ROOTS- From Zero to Achievers *As the world’s greatest athletes compete in South Korea, and whatever the outcome, OUR ROOTS in the second week of Black History month, features these Nigerian girls who made history by being Africa’s first bobsled team to […]