Colin Kaepernick is helping Nike rake in big bucks. According to Yahoo, ever since the athlete-turned-activist endorsed the corporate sneaker giant, their company value has skyrocketed. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Nike’s stock reportedly rose over 18% since the announcement of the Kaepernick deal, adding a spectacular $26.2 billion to the Nike coffers and increasing its value at […]
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In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Obama’s decade,” reparations, and Kaepernick. | The Intelligencer
If the racial politics of the 2010s has a definitive chronicler, it is Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose magisterial 2014 Atlantic essay “The Case for Reparations” forced Americans to reckon with slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining in ways that many of them never had. Since the essay’s publication — which eventually prompted a congressional hearing on the […]
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Hue Jackson to lead Colin Kaepernick workout; 13 NFL teams have committed to attend | ESPN
Former NFL head coach Hue Jackson will lead the drills during quarterback Colin Kaepernick‘s scheduled workout in Atlanta on Saturday, and former NFL head coach Joe Philbin will be in attendance to assist, the league announced Thursday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The NFL said 11 teams have committed to attend: the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates pulls few punches at Raleigh “Color of Education” summit | NC Policy Watch
Acclaimed author draws parallels between slavery and sexual violence
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UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame | UC Santa Cruz
Scott Rappaport, UC Santa Cruz [dropcap]In[/dropcap] celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall of Fame will host a weekend this September in New York honoring the achievements of American women in the birthplace of the country’s Women’s Rights movement. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The highlight […]
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Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone | Brain Pickings
“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire and The Connection.”
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Black Bodies, Green Spaces | The New York Times
Why is the image of an environmentally conscious African-American still hard for us to picture?
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Natalie And Derrica Wilson Are Dedicated To Finding America’s ‘Black And Missing’ | HuffPost
“If not us, who will do it?” asked Natalie Wilson.
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These Black Women Make Sure Their Communities Are Seen | HuffPost
Meet 11 black women who are encouraging others to see the beauty in themselves.
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Nikki Giovanni Blasts Trump Presidency: Black People Voting for Him Is Like a Vote for Slavery | Atlanta Black Star
Kiersten Willis, Atlanta Black Star Nikki Giovanni speaking at Emory University in 2008., Featured Image [dropcap]Poet[/dropcap] Nikki Giovanni wants Donald Trump’s presidency to crash and burn and said Black Americans voting for him was like a vote for slavery. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “My heart breaks for the next generation with these fools in the White House,” […]
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