Since the 1980s our prison population has more than quadrupled. Crime, of course, has not quadrupled. It’s been at historic lows. We now lock up 2.2 million people, more than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number are people of color with […]
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has “shamelessly” turned a profit from photos of two 19th-century slaves while ignoring requests to turn the photos over to the slaves’ descendants, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Shaquille O’Neal will DJ at Lollapalooza Tamara Lanier, of […]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam released a statement on Friday apologizing for an uncovered racist photo from his 1984 East Virginia Medical School yearbook that depicts him and another man in blackface and in Ku Klux Klan garb. An accompanying quote under the photo […]
The Sundance Film Festival is full of fascinating stories and thought-provoking projects, but It’s Not About Jimmy Keene stood out as something truly special. Aside from the fact that the project is poignant, passionate, and truly stirring, the story behind this work of art makes it even […]
Republicans remained silent while Trump defended white supremacist violence in Charlottesville and labeled Haiti and nations in Africa “shithole countries,” in his long racist history that he brought to the White House. Love, the 42-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants, said she was offended by Trump’s racist rhetoric. Yet, […]
Looking for a lifestyle channel geared for Black female millennial? If so, TV One’s got you. This coming January, the network is launching CLEO TV, a new aspirational lifestyle and entertainment cable channel targeting Millennial and Gen X women of color. Derived from the name Cleopatra, CLEO […]
