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I remember at the time, we didn’t have proper phones or anything, so we would chat on the [Nintendo] DS. There were three floors [in our houses]—my room was on the second floor, and Shannon was on the top. We’d message each other on the DS and be like, “Right, …

Queen Latifah, in partnership with Procter & Gamble and Tribeca Studios, is aiming to promote gender and racial equality among filmmakers through the Queen Collective, a short film development program which is in its second year. The rapper-turned-actress became the first woman to receive a Grammy for Best Rap Solo …

Screenshot: @bandaidbrand (Instagram) A whole damn century from the time it was first introduced, Band-Aid brand has finally come to the realization that black people exist, have skin, get boo-boos, and need bandages. It only took a global uprising against the racist killing of black people for it to happen. …

📚Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone, by Madison Smartt Bell 📚The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction, by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell 📚Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach, by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt Bell The roots of Route 66 …

Written by Demetria Irwin Empowering women has been a major focus of Queen Latifah’s career, from “Ladies First” to “U.N.I.T.Y,” to the acting roles she selects in movies like Bessie and Hollywood. Now, Queen Latifah is taking that feminist mindset to women of color filmmakers.  For the second year in …

Two tough years in the making, there were days when Longevity founder Phil Long, 60, wasn’t sure the marriage of his small business, one of the nation’s few certified black-owned wineries, with Bronco Wine Co., one of the largest wine producers in the U.S., would happen. But in early March, …

People gather during a protest against police brutality on June 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Elijah Nouvela (Getty Images) Another black man in America has been killed by police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is investigating an incident in Atlanta in which police officers shot and …

Cops became a reliable recruiting tool for police departments across America. It also became a way for disgraced units to rehab their reputation on camera. As a Vox documentary points out, the Los Angeles Police Department finally agreed to give the show access in 1994, two years after riots erupted …

On this day, civil Rights activist Medgar W. Evers was shot in the back by a white supremacist in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home. He was only 37 years old. Born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925, Evers became involved with the National Association for the Advancement of …

Photo: Andy Lyons (Getty Images) Close to three months after the NBA suspended its 2020 season amid a global pandemic, the organization announced that 22 of the league’s 30 teams will be making a glorious return, resuming the season at Walt Disney World Resort at the end of July. But …