When I was growing up, I would read about the struggle for civil rights and lament that my coming of age was in the 1980s and 90s, rather than in the 50s and 60s. My lingering question was whether I would have had the courage of the freedom fighters of that era. I wondered what…
“I had no right to overturn the election,” former Vice President Mike Pence says Former Vice President Mike Pence has directly rebutted Donald Trump’s false claims that he somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply “wrong.” In a speech to a gathering of the conservative…
Source: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty The levels of tone-deafness displayed during Black History Month always seem subsequently be more ignorant, and this year has already been no exception within the first week of the annual observation honoring the historical accomplishments of and contributions from African Americans. Case in point: A…
Podcaster Joe Rogan has embarked on an anti-cancel me tour after a clip of him using the N-word emerged on the internet. The conservative media big mouth took to his Instagram to speak directly to the people and apologized for using the racial epithet. However, many Black folks are not buying it. In January 2020,…
“I’m in a unique position because whites don’t really want me here, and Blacks don’t want to come here,” Evelyn England says Alabama welcomes visitors at the “First White House of the Confederacy,” a historic home next to the state Capitol where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived with his family in the early months of…
The latest bleak milestone came as omicron is loosening its grip on the country Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of…
OPINION: A Black couple in San Francisco’s hipster scene spends a beautifully sad day digging into who and what they are, and can be, to one another. “Just stay the night. Go back to your normal life tomorrow.” Every time I watch Medicine for Melancholy, I feel bad for Micah (Wyatt Cenac). He’s a Black…
UPDATED: 8:45 a.m. ET, Feb. 6, 2022 Originally published: June 19, 2019 When you think of Bob Marley, the first thing that comes to mind may not necessarily be politics. But the legendary singer’s genre — roots reggae — is embodied by topics that are intrinsically intertwined with politics, including Black Liberation and revolution. In…
A student enters the Admissions Building at Harvard University on September 12, 2006, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Source: Getty Images / Getty In 1963, Duke University admitted its first five Black undergraduates. When I walked onto campus as a freshman 29 years later, most of my Black classmates and I were still the first in…
After a difficult week, Candice Marie Benbow reminds us of the hope we can find in ourselves as we start a new one. “You are your best thing, Sethe. You are.” I have run to this particular passage in Toni Morrison’s Beloved so many times, and this week was no different. I can feel the…
