BLACK LINKEDIN IS THRIVING. DOES LINKEDIN HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? The social network’s tone has long reflected corporate America: staid, monolithic, white. Now Black users are speaking up — […]
HOW ROBIN THEDE IS CHANGING EXPECTATIONS OF ‘WHAT BLACK WOMEN IN COMEDY CAN DO’. Robin Thede isn’t just a writer, producer, reality show host and actor, she is also a one-woman […]
PBS DOCUMENTARY ‘DRIVI NG WHILE BLACK’ IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INFURIATING HISTORY OF RACISM. Many people have the luxury of simply hopping in the car and driving, without expectations of […]
ASIAN TWITTER, BLACK TWITTER JOKE ABOUT HARRIS’ DISAPPROVING AUNTIE VIBE. “I want to learn how to nod my head affirmatively while saying words the way Auntie Kamala does,” one user […]
BLACK HOMEOWNER, 2 APPRAISALS, $62,000 DIFFERERENCE. Christina Jordan was in the process of purchasing a new condo in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood when the coronavirus pandemic upended daily life, making her […]
NEW PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA’S AFRICAN GODDAUGHTER SHED LIGHT ON FORGOTTEN BLACK HISTORY. A portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the daughter of an African ruler and goddaughter of Queen Victoria, was […]
J.P. MORGAN TO COMMITT AN ADDITIONAL $30 BILLION TO HELP REDUCE SYSTEMATIC RACISM. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said Thursday that it will spend an additional $30 billion over the […]
HOW SMALL, BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES GET TANGLED IN INSTAGRAM’S AD-APPROVAL ALGORITHM. The trouble started when Kim Kardashian West posted a picture. On September 11, she added to her Instagram Story an image of […]
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ALL THE WHITE SCHOLARS WHO TRY TO PASS AS BLACK? As a nation, we may be moving toward more consciousness about Blackness, but for most Americans Black […]
N-WORD; THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF THE RACIAL SLUR. “It’s the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language.” That was the view of prosecutor Christopher Darden when the issue of […]
CAN SCHOOL BE ANTI-RACIST ‘? A NEW SUPERINTENDENT IN EVANSTON, ILL,HAS A PLAN. After racial-justice protests across the country, schools examine curriculum, hiring and approach to teaching By Douglas Belkin and Lee Hawkins […]
HBCUs: FROM INCLUSION TO EMPOWERMENT — A CATALYST FOR CHANGE. These are turbulent times as the country struggles to address the tension of an increasingly diverse population and mounting division. […]
HOW LONG WILL FASHION’S RACIAL RECKONING BE IN STYLE? NOEL KING, HOST: This year, a lot of fashion magazines are featuring Black models on the covers of their glossy fall […]
WHAT BLACK LIBERATION LOOKS LIKE: 40 ACRES IN AUBURN, WASHINGTON. For Nyema Clark, Black liberation looks like 40 or so acres in Auburn, Washington. It’s called Red Barn Ranch, and […]
ANTI-BLACKNESS & WHITE NATIONALISM: A CALL TO BLACK AMERICA. These are hard times for Black America. Black communities are disproportionately devastated by COVID-19 – one in 500 of us is projected to […]
BIDEN SUGGESTS PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO QUARANTINE BECAUSE ‘SOME BLACK WOMAN WAS ABLE TO STACK THE GROCERY SHELF’ IN VIRAL CLIP. [The Democratic presidential nominee] has landed in hot water […]