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Read More »School Drops Halloween Event Over Equity And Race Concerns
There won’t be a Halloween parade this year for a Seattle public school because of its effects on marginalized students of color who don’t celebrate the holiday, The Seattle Times reports. School district officials stated that the pandemic did not play a role in their decision, and they received no …
Read More »Charlamagne Tha God Reveals How Tyler Perry Helped Him Realize He Was Abused As A Child
Charlamagne Tha God is all about spreading that “healing energy.” So the radio personality and talk show host didn’t shy away from crediting Tyler Perry with being the one who helped him identify aspects of his childhood trauma. During an appearance on The Daily Beast Live on Monday, Charlamagne (born …
Read More »A Few Other Books Aside From Beloved That Politicians Might Want to Consider Banning for Political Gain If We Believe the Children Are Our Future
Photo: arisara (Shutterstock) Politics are weird AF. For instance, the Virginia governor’s race—one I happen to be witnessing (via force) from a front-row seat in Washington, D.C.—has reached extinction-level event levels of mudslinging. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee whose ads make me hate him as a person, and Terry McAuliffe, …
Read More »How Facebook Fails 90 Percent of Its Users
In the fall of 2019, Facebook launched a massive effort to combat the use of its platforms for human trafficking. Working around the clock, its employees searched Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram for keywords and hashtags that promoted domestic servitude in the Middle East and elsewhere. Over the course of …
Read More »One Person Shot Dead At Grambling State Univ.
One person is dead and several others have been injured after a shooting at Grambling State University in Louisiana. According to CNN, the shooting happened in the early morning hours of Oct. 17 at a dining facility where homecoming breakfast was being prepared. One of the injured was a student. …
Read More »At 50, This Author’s Debut Novel About Outrunning White Supremacy Is Being Adapted Into a Netflix Film
Book writer Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is showing the world it’s never too late to publish your dream novel. The author’s first book, “My Monticello,” is on its way to becoming a Netflix film. Johnson, 50, always had an interest in creating literature, but fell off throughout the years, according to …
Read More »Black Newspaper Carrier Files Lawsuit After Confrontation With Washington Sheriff
In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, then-Pierce County Sheriff’s Dept. spokesman Det. Ed Troyer answers questions during a news conference in Tacoma, Wash. Photo: Ted S. Ryan (AP) Sedrick Altheimer is coming for the justice he seeks after a swarm of Tacoma, Wa., police officers descended on him in …
Read More »‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
Before I tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the White House—and how it elicited a very specific reaction, some 2,400 miles away, in Menlo Park, California—you need to remember the mayhem of that day, the exuberance of the mob as it gave …
Read More »Tim Scott’s Massive Campaign Funds May Suggest He’s Running
Will Sen. Tim Scott run for president in 2024? The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican has raised an impressive amount of campaign cash for his Senate reelection bid. It has many people wondering if the South Carolina lawmaker has his eyes on the White House. Fox News reports that Scott …
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