Vineyard Film Fest Puts Spotlight on African Americans [two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Natalie McKeer | PUBLICATION Cape Cod Times The 14th year of the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival will feature 45 Feature, Documentary and Short Films produced and starring African Americans.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]The name of the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film […]
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Black Activists Don’t Ignore Crime
IT has become a standard conservative talking point: Black activists focus on police brutality but ignore violent crime in black neighborhoods.
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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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David Duke’s getting more support from black voters in his race than Donald Trump is in his
Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke was interviewed by NPR’s Steve Inskeep this week, and he reiterated his affection for the man at the top of his party’s ticket.
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The Financial Consequences of Saying ‘Black,’ vs. ‘African American’
People make vastly different assumptions about salary, education, and social status depending on which phrase is used.
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Teju Cole talks to Taiye Selasi: ‘Afropolitan, American, African. Whatever’
The authors discuss translation, ‘travelling while black’ and how to avoid classification
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White Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race
[three_fourth padding=”0 0px 0 0px”]White Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race 0 5 | A U G U S T | 2 0 1 6 Polling suggests the problem isn’t that we’re not talking about race; it’s that the majority of white Americans aren’t listening. BY Donovan X. Ramsey | PUBLICATION The Nation [dropcap]A[/dropcap] full […]
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Ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics—Black Lives Matter Activists March in Solidarity with Brazil
It’s becoming quite apparent that black lives are being snuffed out by police globally (see Canada and France).
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Can the Save Our Schools Movement Fix Public Education?
Activists such as Jonathan Kozol headed to Washington, D.C., to protest inequalities in the K-12 system.
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How African American Entrepreneurs Can Power the Economy
New business creation is down in general, but up among African Americans.
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