
Spike Lee has proved once again that sometimes unconventional is the best way to go when you want something done right.
IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
Spike Lee has proved once again that sometimes unconventional is the best way to go when you want something done right.
In popular memory, the individual most closely associated with the underground railroad is Harriet Tubman.
At least to a gaggle of Republicans at Texas Tech University in Lubbock who want to bar civil rights activist Angela Davis from speaking on their campus, according to Fox 34 News.
Serena Williams celebrates after a victory in her women’s singles match against Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova on day 10 of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne Jan. 28, 2015.
In each police-related death recently dominating the headlines, authorities overreacted to black men’s behaviors as if they were life-threatening.
I love making fun of white people. I do it every day. It garners laughs, which, as a humorist, is what I want most in this world. (The thing I want second most? For white people to stop trying to pass off casseroles as real food.)
Conservative critics are in hysterics thanks to a few short remarks made by President Barack Obama on the subject of Christian history during Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast.
French President François Hollande vowed Thursday to redouble efforts to teach secularism in schools — part of his attempt to better integrate the nation’s marginalized minorities…
By Jamil Smith @JamilSmith There is a quiet scene in Ava DuVernay’s Selma that speaks powerfully to our current civil rights moment. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. takes…
Immigration may seem an odd topic to discuss during Black History Month, I would challenge that there is no part of our history that is not shaped by migration, be it the forced migration of continental Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade or the Great Migration of free Blacks from the South after Reconstruction.
Formerly known as the Ferguson Reads List, this reading list is intended to provide some history and context to the recent protests. This is a community curated list of books…
It was 1987, and my 13-year-old interaction with mainstream news and entertainment media was a martial one. I felt it as a daily pain, the way each and every criminalizing descriptor peeled back my dignity to the raw shame of being found perpetually guilty.