Screenshot: Pharrell Williams (Youtube Pharrell has followed up his curated issue of TIME magazine with Black leaders of “The New American Revolution” from earlier this week by dropping a new song and accompanying music video on Friday. The track “Entrepreneur” features Jay-Z, whose own Black entrepreneur cred is well-established and …
Read More »The 22-Year-Old Blogger Behind Protests in Belarus
On Sunday morning, Nexta—the word means “somebody”—posted a red and white invitation to the march. “Ring the doorbells of your neighbors, call your friends and relatives, write to your colleagues,” the message instructed them: “We are going EXCLUSIVELY peacefully to the center of town to hold the authorities to account.” …
Read More »It's Time to Decide
The road to glory was long and challenging, and now it’s time for either Jada Spight or Stephanie Summers to be named Sunday Best on the season finale, tomorrow at 8/7c. Source link
Read More »Missouri Newspaper Criticized for Racist Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream' Caricature Cartoon
White people (and non-Black people of color for that matter) would do well to just keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s name out of their mouths. This goes especially for conservatives who only seem to know one excerpt of one speech from one civil rights leader and so they invoke their …
Read More »Why the DNC Worked So Well
That sense of intimacy was heightened by the DNC’s willingness to admit the obvious: that it was making its case to a nation in pain. Many of those who spoke acknowledged the depth of America’s losses—of jobs, of health, of hope, of global standing, of lives. Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s …
Read More »Live Updates From The 2020 DNC
Joe Biden Proudly Accepts The Democratic Nomination For President: “I Will Be An Ally Of The Light Not Of The Darkness” 10:50 p.m. ET/7:50 p.m. PT: This is the moment Democrats have been waiting on for the last three days and the moment Joe Biden has been waiting on for …
Read More »New York Civil Liberties Union Releases More Than 323,000 Allegations of Misconduct Filed Against the NYPD
Photo: David Dee Delgado (Getty Images) Not everything about 2020 has been bad. The pandemic has been disastrous for the year’s reputation, but good things are happening right now as well. The worldwide explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement has brought to the mainstream a much-needed conversation about systemic …
Read More »When Your Best Friend Gives Birth to Your Babies—All 4 of Them
Debbie: They almost canceled the second procedure because the embryos were so misshapen and bad quality. But we went for it. Stacey: Of the 10 eggs they fertilized, there were none, according to the embryologist, that were excellent or good condition. So they said chances of conceiving are reduced greatly. …
Read More »Joe Biden Outlines His Priorities in DNC Speech
After a four-day meeting, where many of the participants remained separate, Joe Biden formally accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party as its candidate for President of the United States and in doing so, he focused less on any shortcomings of the current administration and more on inspiring voters and …
Read More »New App Aims to Raise $1 Billion for HBCUs by Collecting Spare Change
Innovation may be the key to helping ease the financial burdens and fundraising challenges faced by many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country. This week, Xavier Peoples unveiled HBCU Change, a new app that aims to raise $1 billion for HBCUs over the next five years by …
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