Image: Instagram As black travelers explore more and more of the country, there has been a desire to help visitors interact with more black-owned companies in the different places they visit. For Candy Lowe, the opportunity presented a chance to show off her side of Florida to visitors and that …
Read More »Fair Worker Gets Hands and Unemployed After Calling Guest the N-Word
Under no circumstances is it okay for a white person to drop the hard-R. It’s a one-way ticket to catching all of the hands. A fair worker learned that the hard way when he tried it and wound up both beat and broke. According to NBC News, a ride operator …
Read More »An Epic Novel Haunted by the Ghosts of Colonialism
To whom does one life belong? As the man born Abel Paisley prepares to greet death, the question takes on a sudden urgency. At the beginning of her new novel, These Ghosts Are Family, Maisy Card sketches the swindler’s portrait: Decades prior, when his friend Stanford Solomon died on the …
Read More »Kansas City Mayor Told He ‘Wasn’t In s The System’ To Vote
Moments after making a plea for people to get out and vote in the Missouri primary Tuesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas was turned away from the polls and told by a poll worker that he “wasn’t in the system” to cast his ballot. Lucas showed up to vote at …
Read More »Meet The Woman Behind Georgia’s First Black-Owned CBD Company
With recreational and medical cannabis usage becoming legalized in more and more states, a lot of entrepreneurs are looking to cash in on this growing sector. Despite the progress in legalization, the lingering effects of the War on Drugs-era policies and racial discrimination along with the large amount of start-up …
Read More »Washington D.C Will Receive Its First Black Woman Statue
Image: Instagram There are many historical figures that are memorialized as statues in our country’s capital. It was announced this week that our nation’s capital is about to add the first statue of a historic black woman to its collection. Education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune will be making history as …
Read More »Fresno Man Accused of Four Murders Admits He Wanted to Kill White People: 'You Get Fed Up With the Racism, You Get Tired of Letting Things Slide'
Kori Ali MuhammadScreenshot: ABC 30 We’ve all heard the phrase “an eye for an eye,” and after enduring a lifetime of racism, that was the exact justification that accused killer Kori Ali Muhammad gave authorities for his decision to allegedly murder four people in 2017. From the Fresno Bee: In …
Read More »TV’s Age of Algorithm Anxiety
The determinism-driven paranoia of Devs dances through Season 3 of Westworld, which for the first time leaves the park of the show’s title to explore what real life looks like in a world that abuses robots. The first two seasons of Westworld explored the idea that the AI “hosts” were …
Read More »Joe Biden Projected To Win Michigan Primary
Joe Biden is the projected winner of the primary elections of three states on Tuesday night (March 10): Missouri, Mississippi and the all-important Michigan, according to projections from Fox, CBS and NBC News. The hat trick leaves Biden’s last standing competitor, Senator Bernie Sanders, with virtually no path to winning …
Read More »The Mayor of Kansas City Went to Vote. A Poll Worker Turned Him Away
Photo: Kyle Rivas (Getty Images) There is a certain level of irony to an elected official being turned away from voting. This was the case for Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas. According to Slate, when Lucas went to go vote in Missouri’s primary on Tuesday he was turned away after …
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