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Anthony Hamilton, left; Musiq SoulchildPhoto: Jon Kopaloff/Bennett Raglin for BET (Getty Images) Much like Anthony Hamilton, sometimes “I cry.” But on days like today, I’m shouting with joy from the mountaintops over this latest Verzuz announcement. On Monday, the official Verzuz platform released a new flyer promoting the next upcoming …
Read More »High-End Department Store Saks Slammed For Selling $600 Gold Afro Picks As Art Pieces
Apparently, afro picks have become a new rare form of art and Saks is making sure it’s first in line to market them. However, social media called out the high-end department store for infringing on Black culture by selling the gold picks as pieces of art. (Images: Saks) “Sooo let …
Read More »Dems Walk Out on Florida Surgeon General With "Strange" Covid Views
Florida Surgeon Gen. Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, left, speaks at a news conference with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Photo: Wilfredo Lee (AP) Democrats in Florida’s state senate said, “Aiight, Imma head out,” on Thursday rather than listen …
Read More »‘Zero Responsibility’
I.The End It took four presidencies for America to finish abandoning Afghanistan. George W. Bush’s attention wandered off soon after American Special Forces rode horseback through the northern mountains and the first schoolgirls gathered in freezing classrooms. Barack Obama, after studying the problem for months, poured in troops and pulled …
Read More »Historian/ Educator Launches $2K Scholarship Contest About Predominantly Black Town in Iowa
Most people haven’t heard of Buxton, Iowa — a thriving, integrated coal mining town of 5,000 residents established in 1900, where Blacks and whites were treated equally, and Black Americans were doctors, lawyers, teachers, business owners, and leaders in the community. Rachelle Chase, the author of two books about Buxton …
Read More »Lauren Smith-Fields Wasn't the Only Bridgeport Black Woman to Mysteriously Die Last Month
Shantell Fields, Lauren Smith-Fields’ mother, stands with family members during a protest rally in front of the Morton Government Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 23, 2022. Smith-Fields was found dead in her Bridgeport apartment in December and her family and friends marched in her memory on Sunday, which would have …
Read More »What I Learned When My Parents Got Arrested
I was eating tandoori chicken at Shalimar Restaurant in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco on a school night when I received a call from my aunt, Yasmeen, who said my parents had been arrested. Earlier in the morning, a dozen armed FBI agents had raided our home in Fremont, …
Read More »Two AME Zion Pastors Face Up To 20 Years In Prison For Pimping The Pulpit And The Federal Government
Two pastors face 20 years in prison after defrauding the federal government of $14 million in loans. Sheila Quintana, 67, and Staccato Powell, 62, were arrested and indicted on wire fraud and conspiracy charges after securing the loans under false pretenses. The mendacious pastors, who were leaders of the African …
Read More »The End of Affirmative Action Will Impact Black and Latino Students At High Levels
Photo: Vitalii Vodolazskyi (Shutterstock) Affirmative action has been under attack since its inception in the 1960s. On Monday, January 24, 2022, the Supreme Court stated that it would hear two cases opposing race-conscious admissions at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. However, experts say that Black and Latino …
Read More »Night Sky
Carl Dennis doesn’t tend to focus his writing on death, love, and the Big Questions. His poetry serves as a reminder—perhaps especially to people who see the form as melodramatic—that not every line of verse needs to take itself so seriously. Instead, his sweet spot is in the small things—“the …
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