Consider one of these books about Black children — written by Black authors — as holiday gifts for the young folks in your village. Whether Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah (yes, Black folks are Jewish, too), or other celebrations fill your home this season, holiday time is a great opportunity to refresh little readers’ book lists. Consider…
1,611 of the feature film submissions were from people of color, and 413 from people who identify as LGBTQ+ Sundance is officially on its way, and the annual film festival has officially announced their showcase of Feature Films, Indie Episodic, and New Frontier line-ups for their 2022 slate. This year, the Sundance Film Festival will…
“I do believe everything happens for a reason,” Biles tells the publication. This week Simone Biles was named TIME‘s 2021 Athlete of the Year. In the accompanying profile, she gets candid about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. In September, the superstar gymnast slammed the FBI’s…
Tis’ the season to gift! After being on lockdown for over a year, it’s safe to say that many are optimistic to get back to traveling. And while your ideal gift may be an all-expense-paid vacation for you, your family, friends, or boo, the next best thing to get prepared for vacationist activities is to…
Families and loved ones are still dealing with the aftermath of Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival on Friday, Nov. 5. The first night of the rapper’s two-day concert in Houston, Texas, left dozens of injuries and ten casualties, including a 9-year-old boy whose family declined Scott’s offer to pay for the funeral. The eight-Grammy-nominated rapper sat…
Dan Webb is getting backlash for his use of an expression that’s widely interpreted to be racially insensitive. The prosecutor in the case of the State of Illinois v. Jussie Smollett is getting backlash for his use of an expression that’s widely interpreted to be racially insensitive. Prosecutor Dan Webb told the jury during closing…
A Philadelphia Black man who was exonerated this year after he served 31 years behind bars on wrongful murder convictions, 25 years on death row, has now enlisted civil rights attorney Ben Crump and is suing the City of Brotherly Love for $100 million. Christopher Williams, now 61, was released from prison in February after…
The rapper sat down with Charlamagne Tha God a little over a month after the tragic music festival. In his first interview since the tragic Astroworld music festival, Travis Scott denied knowing that people were being injured and killed until after his performance. Scott has been in the headlines since the festival, which resulted in…
The rapper had survived being shot at least eight times back in June 2019, when he was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital. Los Angeles rapper Slim 400 was shot dead in Inglewood, California, on Wednesday night. TMZ is reporting that the 33-year-old was killed in an ambush that is still under investigation. Los Angeles rapper…
“Moonlight” and “Black Panther” are also featured on the newly-released list. Years after its release, Get Out continues to cement its legacy in cinema. This week, the Writer’s Guild of America named the film as the best screenplay of the 21st century, topping a list of 101. Per the official WGA website, the list was…
