“My father is intelligent, loving and resilient. He loves his children more than life itself. He meets every expectation of what a father should be,” said his daughter Richeda Ashmeade was just 12-years-old when her father was incarcerated. In light of Father’s Day, she reflected on their last day together. “We were laying down and…
More than 60 years after he was denied enrollment into a medical program at a private university because of the color of his skin, a Georgia doctor is receiving a long-time coming apology. In 1959, Marion Hood applied to be a student at Emory University in the busy city of Atlanta. However, less than a…
Opinion: This year on Father’s Day, I exist in an abundance of love because of what grief came to teach me This Father’s Day feels vastly different from the previous. Yet, the two are intimately interconnected, as one informs the other. I can recall the many complex layers of grief I was experiencing in June…
After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals, moving instead in the other direction by granting greater powers to officers, making it harder to discipline them and expanding their authority to crack down on demonstrations. The sponsors of the GOP measures acted in the wake of…
Longtime music exec Dame Dash is being sued by the very record label he co-founded for allegedly trying to sell the copyright to Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt” as a non-fungible token, also known as an NFT. According to Page Six, the lawsuit was filed on Friday, June 18, in New York’s Southern District Court…
It’s unclear whether the crash was intentional or accidental, authorities say A driver slammed into spectators Saturday evening at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one man and seriously injuring another, authorities said. Some witnesses said the crash appeared to be an intentional act, but Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Ali Adamson…
Source: Michael A. McCoy / Getty Every once in a while, I imagine myself watching the news with Frederick Douglass to gauge American progress since his era. When he heard Juneteenth was just made a national holiday, y’all should’ve seen his face. I gather it was a slight distortion of the same expression he had…
UPDATED: 6:00 a.m. EDT, June 20, 2021 — On this Father’s Day, especially one that falls right smack dab in the middle of a global racial reckoning that began in the U.S., it remains important to point out and debunk the unfortunate theories that incorrectly generalize and stereotype Black fathers as deadbeat dads who prioritize…
Two Black women entrepreneurs are on a mission to eradicate the stigma surrounding mental health in the Black community and are making history in the process. According to NBC 15, Afiya Hooker and Joanna Johnson recently opened Mobile’s first Black-owned community mental health center. The center—dubbed Yin Yang Wellness Center—opened its doors in May. Aware…
“It no longer represents ALL of us. It’s not fair to be forced to honor it. It’s time for a new flag,” Gray wrote Macy Gray is calling for the American flag to get a face lift. Just in time for Juneteenth, Gray wrote an opinion piece for Market Watch explaining why the American flag…
