Black America Breaking News for the African American Community
Image: Blackground Records LLC As of Friday, August 20, almost 25 years after the album’s original release, Aaliyah’s One in a Million is available across streaming platforms and for download. The website aaliyahiscoming.com popped up for the first time in early August, and fans began to speculate whether or not …
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Moises Saman / Magnum Of all the empty, pointless statements that are periodically repeated by Western politicians, none is more empty and pointless than this one: “There can be no military solution to this conflict.” That was what Ban Ki-moon, then the UN secretary-general, said back in 2013: “There is …
Read More »Rewriting Black Narratives with the Film Series 8:46
Turning pain into progress, 8:46 Films is a scripted short film series that embraces Black storytelling and reimagines the future eight minutes and 46 seconds at a time. Source link
Read More »New York Attorney General Letitia James Wins Lawsuit Against Former Ice Cream Shop Owner Who Falsely Filed Race-Based Police Report
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that the city has won a lawsuit she filed against David Elmendorf, the former owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze, in Schenectady, New York. Elmendorf was sued for discrimination, harassment, making violent threats, and filing false, race-based police reports against peaceful protesters. BLACK ENTERPRISE …
Read More »WTF: How AI Technology Can Send You to Prison, Even If There Are No Eyewitnesses
ShotSpotter equipment overlooks the intersection of South Stony Island Avenue and East 63rd Street in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Photo: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast (AP) The last thing the justice system needed was another way to put innocent Black people in jail. ShotSpotter, an AI-powered surveillance system that’s …
Read More »Fake Forgiveness Is Toxic for Relationships
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. In Robert M. Pirsig’s 1974 book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the author describes a device he calls “the old South Indian Monkey Trap.” It consists of a hollowed-out coconut …
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Read More »Deputy Who Body Slammed Black Florida Teen Won’t Be Charged, State Attorney Says
Earlier this year in January, BLACK ENTERPRISE reported that the sheriff’s department in Osceola County, FL, was looking into an incident involving a school resource officer who was seen on camera at a high school body-slamming a Black teenager, Taylor Bracey to the ground. She appears unconscious before the officer …
Read More »Jeopardy!, Come Get Your Boy: Man Who Is Not LeVar Burton Apologizes Yet Again for Past Sexist Comments
Screenshot: YouTube/ABC News Jeopardy! executive producer and recently appointed permanent host Mike Richards is once again apologizing for some past problematic behaviors. People reports that Richards issued an apology statement after several derogatory comments made on a previous podcast he hosted recently resurfaced. From 2013 to 2014, Richards hosted The …
Read More »The Terrible Cost of Wellness
The defining motif of Nine Perfect Strangers, David E. Kelley’s new miniseries on Hulu, is an image of fruit being pulverized into gloop, which is also how my brain felt after watching the first six episodes. Like HBO’s Big Little Lies, the show is adapted from a novel by Liane …
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