Category: KOLUMN Magazine

— CEDRIC “BIG CED” THORNTON, BLACK ENTERPRISE Over a year after Michael Jordan opened a medical clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina, he has opened a second location according to Novant Health. The first Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic had opened its doors in West Charlotte last year as a healthcare clinic to serve low-income communities in the city.   […]

The actor and racial-justice activist, whose organization BLD PWR is one group behind L.A. County’s Measure J, weighs in on seven state initiatives on the ballot this fall. — DEGEN PENER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Kendrick Sampson, the actor and activist co-founder of the social justice group BLD PWR, has been an active voice this year in local L.A. […]

Inside The Racist Right — KLAUS VEDFELT / GETTY, THE ATLANTIC One week after the 2016 presidential election, white nationalists gathered in Washington, D.C., to celebrate. “Hail Trump! Hail our people!” the far-right leader Richard Spencer said from the podium to cheers and Nazi salutes. The Atlantic’s cameras captured exclusive footage of this moment, and the […]

— DWIGHT BROWN, NNPA, BLACK PRESS USA The lineup at the 2020 New York Film Festival (NYFF) included an impressive array of African diaspora films and the festival’s usual collection of international motion pictures. Attesting to NYFF’s eagerness to hear black voices, the fest featured three main slate films from British director/writer Steve McQueen (“12 […]

Sorin talks to Shondaland about her new PBS documentary, which takes a look at the history of Black people on the open road. — MEKEISHA MADDEN, SHONDALAND Gretchen Sorin didn’t understand her parents’ road-trip routines when she was growing up. Her father, Clyde Sullivan, would often begin the eight-hour journey from their home in Newark, […]

— SAM FOWLER, INSIDENOVA Juneteenth has officially become a state holiday after lawmakers unanimously approved legislation during the Virginia General Assembly’s special session. Juneteenth marks the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, which was the last state to abolish slavery. The companion bills were introduced by Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, and Del. Lamont […]

Cedric Humphrey called out the Trump campaign for using the viral clip. — LIBBY COHEN, DAILY DOT At one of last week’s presidential town halls, Cedric Humphrey called out former Vice President Joe Biden for his May comments where he said “you ain’t Black” if you vote for Trump. The question quickly launched him into virality. Humphrey, a University […]

State law does not allow voters to wear items with the name of a candidate or political party, but does not prohibit items with “Black Lives Matter.” — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, NBC NEWS MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A poll worker in Memphis, Tennessee, has been fired after turning away early voters who were wearing “Black Lives […]

They’re Reimagining Black Wealth! — BOTWC STAFF, BECAUSE OF THEM WE CAN In 2013, Timothy Webb Jr. graduated from the University of South Carolina ready to use his degree in information technology to help secure data, and now he’s added securing land to his plate. Last year, Webb founded More Than a 9 to 5, […]

Before the world knew what intersectionality was, the scholar, writer and activist was living it, arguing not just for Black liberation, but for the rights of women and queer and transgender people as well. — NELSON GEORGE | THE GREATS, THE NEW YORK TIMES THERE’S A WALL on Throop Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, that is […]