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A statue of reggae artist Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica. Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) If you’ve ever heard the statement ‘anti-Blackness is global’ and wondered what it truly meant, consider this news: the Supreme Court in Jamaica, an island whose population is around 80 percent Black people, has ruled in favor …

Tim Lahan There are balloons, and then there are balloons. There’s the domestic balloon, over which we shall quickly pass—the sad little sphere that you blow up at home, with your own laborious, why-am-I-doing-this carbon dioxide. A lot of pathos, for whatever reason, attaches to this balloon. Then there is …

Domino’s Pizza in New Zealand has pulled the plug on its promotion offering free pizza to women named Karen. The pizza giant came under fire this week over the offer that promised to give all “nice, law-abiding Karens” a free pizza in Australia and New Zealand. The goal of the …

Demonstrators raise their arms and chant, “Hands up, Don’t Shoot”, as police clear them from the street as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 17, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Protests are scheduled to happen in St. Louis, Missouri this Sunday in response …

In the second episode, Taparia herself details how she got married at age 19 to a man chosen by her father. The camera follows her husband as he brings her a cup of tea while she stressfully combs through her clients’ “marriage bio-data,” as the résumé-style list of qualifications is …

Last summer, Disney revealed that they had finally found their Ariel for the upcoming live action reboot of their classic animated film, The Little Mermaid. The Disney princess will be played by actress Halle Bailey, who is one half of the popular R&B singing duo Chloe x Halle. While many …

Share0 Oprah Winfrey (Photo Credit Harpo Inc. Ruven Afanador) This week media mogul Oprah Winfrey‘s television network, OWN, has announced that it will be launching the “OWN Your Vote” as a bipartisan initiative to encourage Black women to go out and vote in the critical 2020 election in November. “We …

Image: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images) The petty President of the United States says his government will be banning the social media app TikTok from operating in America, and that it could happen as soon as this weekend. Trump announced his plans to end use of the Chinese-owned video sharing platform …

In speaking to that girl, Trethewey rewrites the years she spent distancing herself from the knowledge that her stepfather abused her mother. Unlike the second-person invocations in “Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath,” a poem from Monument that’s scaffolded with examples of the cruel dismissals that domestic-violence victims face, …

Gov. Deval Patrick, the first African-American governor of Massachusetts, was born on July 31, 1956, on the South Side of Chicago. Raised by a single mother, a young Patrick earned a scholarship in eighth grade from the Boston-based organization A Better Chance, enabling him to attend the prestigious Milton Academy …