Category: KOLUMN Magazine

By Bruce Haring, Deadline Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Gayle King and Brad Pitt will co-host a one-hour primetime special honoring the late civil rights leader John Lewis. John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero airs at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, on CBS. The special also will be telecast at a later date on ViacomCBS brands BET, MTV and Smithsonian, as well […]

By EJI Staff, AP CHICAGO (AP) — An autopsy conducted Wednesday has revealed the Chicago Police deputy chief found dead in a station this week committed suicide. According to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, Deputy Chief Dion Boyd died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest. The findings confirm an announcement by the Chicago Police Department […]

In “Wandering in Strange Lands” the author reveals uncomfortable and enlightening truths about the history of black migration in the U.S. By Zeba Blay, HuffPost Writer Morgan Jerkins was just 25 years old when her first book, a collection of essays titled “This Will Be My Undoing,” made a splashy debut on The New York […]

By Genevieve Redsten, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The shooting death of Bernell Trammell outside his office in the Riverwest neighborhood last week has prompted a viral outpouring on social media for justice. Trammell, who was known for conspicuous political activism and religious proselytizing, was shot about 12:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon.  Was he a victim of his politics? He had carried […]

By Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post Conventional wisdom would have it that a violent, fantastical action thriller about a group of supernatural mercenaries doesn’t lend itself to personal filmmaking. But when the director is Gina Prince-Bythewood, conventional wisdom would be wrong. Prince-Bythewood recalls what resonated most deeply with her about “The Old Guard,” adapted by Greg Rucka […]

From 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” By James Baldwin, The New Yorker Take up the White Man’s burden—Ye dare not stoop to less—Nor call too loud on FreedomTo cloak your weariness;By all ye cry or whisper,By all ye leave or do,The […]

More than a century ago, David Kenyon, a firefighter in Chicago, discovered the fastest way to the ground floor By Alex Potter, Smithsonian Magazine In the 19th century, American firefighters had two ways of descending from their sleeping quarters to their horse-and-buggy conveyances on the ground floor: either by spiral staircase—installed to keep wayward horses […]

To care for, protect, and prepare our children for adulthood, black moms cannot merely accept the world as it is. By Dani McClain, The Nation When I was 7 or 8 years old, my mother would put on Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” every day before we left home for school and work, and […]

By Good Black News Staff, Good Black News Academy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Cherry recently landed a deal with HBO Max for a 12-episode season of “Young Love,” an animated series based on the characters from Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation’s short, “Hair Love.” Cherry will jointly run the series with Carl Jones, who is best known for his work on “The Boondocks” and “Black Dynamite.” Blue Key […]

Freedmen Seek Their Fair Share of Billions of Dollars in Federal Aid and Why We Should Care/Rise UP and Support Them By Eli Grayson, The Oklahoma Eagle This past week, we celebrated our Nation’s 244th year of Independence with family and friends over BBQ and fireworks, we should all stop to reflect on its significance, […]