Through films like The Banker, Detroit and The Hate U Give actor Anthony Mackie has used his craft to capture narratives that illustrate the Black experience in America and for his next project he will tell yet another powerful story from the director’s chair. According to Deadline, Mackie will make his feature directorial debut with…
Rapper Nas has seen much success outside of his musical career, investing in major companies, most notably the smart doorbell company Ring. The Queens native is now putting up his dollars behind another organization after partnering up with search engine giant Google. Together, the 48-year-old, Google, American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and “League of…
A Black woman who received a multi-million dollar settlement from the city of Chicago after police mistakenly raided her apartment says that the money did not equate to justice. She recently noted that she would have been happier if the officers would have been fired and she “didn’t receive a dime.” Anjanette Young’s home was raided…
The seventh grader was hospitalized Jan. 13 after falling ill at a Hartford school that did not have naloxone on hand The death of a 13-year-old student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at his Connecticut school has drawn renewed pleas for schools to stock the opioid antidote naloxone, as well as for training of both…
Source: miniseries / Getty Mothers who live in certain low-income areas throughout Manhattan could be eligible to receive some extra financial support on behalf of The Bridge Project. The new guaranteed income program will give mothers and expectant moms anywhere from $500 to $1000 per month for three years. Back in July 2021,…
Robert Smith worked for the trash company for 13 years before he was fired last year A Black former Waste Management employee said in a federal lawsuit that his supervisor and coworkers in Topeka discriminated against him because of his race. The Wichita Eagle reports that Robert Smith worked for the trash company for 13 years before…
Tennessee Capitol Building Source: Education Images / Getty A Republican legislator, who once supported objecting to the Electoral College vote for the 2020 election, took aim at an AP investigative report on racism in the military. Last week, Rep. Bud Hulsey of Tennessee introduced a resolution attacking the AP report published in May 2021. …
For over a century, Morehouse College has served as an epicenter for groundbreaking research surrounding inequities that impact marginalized communities, and the Atlanta-based institution is staying true to that tradition through the creation of a new project. The HBCU announced the launch of its Black Men’s Research Institute. Morehouse today launched the Black Men’s Research…
Mayor Eric Adams stressed the urgency “to deal with the underlying issues that are impacting crime in our city and has become a stain on the inner cities across our country.” A city reeling from a spate of violence prepared to lay to rest a rookie police officer being hailed as an inspiration to his…
The government said in addition to the deaths, others were seriously injured in the nightclub fire. A fire erupted at a popular nightclub in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde, setting off explosions and killing at least 17 people, government officials said Sunday. The tragedy comes as the central African country hosts thousands of soccer players,…
