Wendi C. Thomas, the founder of MLK50, created her own newsroom where she and her team are creating change for their community By Mary Retta, ZORA. Medium Wendi C. Thomas, a prolific reporter and the founder of MLK50, learned the limitations of a single narrative as a child. When her father would drive her to school, they […]
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A teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a protest is rewarded with a car and a college scholarship | CNN
By Gabriel Kinder, CNN (CNN)When Antonio Gwynn Jr. saw the damage from protests in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, he grabbed a broom, bought some trash bags and started cleaning the streets by himself. He started at 2 a.m. on Monday and did not stop cleaning for the next 10 hours. When an organized […]
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Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation
Why well-off black families end up living in poorer areas than white families with similar or even lower incomes.
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‘Picturing Children’ Shows More Than A Century Of African-American Childhoods
[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY All Things Considered | PUBLISHER NPR After more than a decade in the making, the Smithsonian’s newest museum is scheduled to open this fall. The National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public after a dedication ceremony Sept. 24.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]As a part of […]
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This Adopted Woman Wrote An Awesome Book To Encourage More Black Families To Adopt
“They’re children, and they need love. At the end of the day, that’s really all that matters.”
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Medical Schools Must Play A Role in Addressing Racial Disparities
STAT columnist Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu recently urged physicians to ask how they can ensure that their patients can “thrive in an America free of legalized terror and intolerance.”
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
A federal appeals court decisively struck down North Carolina’s voter identification law on Friday, saying its provisions deliberately “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” in an effort to depress black turnout at the polls.
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Voices: For Black Cops in America, A Twofold Burden
Black officers around the country are now more than ever torn between being a cop and standing up for what is right.
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A Tough Choice for Feminist Black Lives Matter Activists
Protesting a police killing and marching in support of a man convicted of rape can pose a real dilemma when one in five women nationwide has suffered a sexual assault.
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The most powerful art from the #BlackLivesMatter movement, three years in
Three years ago today, the #BlackLivesMatter movement was born. It was born after Trayvon Martin. It grew after Michael Brown and Eric Garner. It sprung from decades of injustice and disregard.
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