Spike Lee’s latest film, about a black detective infiltrating the Klan, once again raises the issue of how seriously cinema should take the white supremacist group.
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The Common App Will Stop Asking About Students’ Criminal Histories | The Atlantic
The change may be the biggest help to low-income students of color, who are disproportionately likely to have been convicted of a crime.
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It’s a Celebration As Voters Oust Prosecutor Who Freed Michael Brown’s Killer | Colorlines
Ferguson City Council member Wesley Bell successfully challenged St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch, as organizers and voters shout #ByeBob.
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Why Self-Made Boss Pat McGrath Is an Invaluable Asset to the Beauty World | Allure
Since her career took off in the 1990s, McGrath has worked with top models like Naomi Campbell and Gigi Hadid and photographers like Steven Meisel, on countless photo shoots.
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35 Black Owned Nail Salons | Shoppe Black
Shoppe Black, Shoppe Black Augusta Sagnelli, Featured Image [dropcap]I[/dropcap] was scrolling through our ShoppeBlack IG when saw a video pop up of a Black woman being attacked at an Asian nail salon in Brooklyn. Someone filmed employees of nail salon attacking a customer with a broom and throwing liquid at her while she tries to […]
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How to Fight Police Violence, Pollution, and Poverty, at the Same Time | City Lab
Summer Lee is the first black woman elected to represent the Pittsburgh region in the state legislature. And she wants to set the record straight on the confluence of factors eating her constituents alive.
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With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present | The Atlantic
The director’s newest film follows a policeman who successfully infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s, but the story it tells is also very much about the U.S. today.
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A black fire chief faces hatred online before his first day on the job | The Washington Post
The enemy is hiding in plain sight, and digital pseudonyms are their new hoods.
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“Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France | The New Yorker
“The word ‘race’ has to be spoken, because it exists, it’s materialized in our lives, in our bodies, in our perceptions of our bodies, in our relations with people, so I think it’s hypocrisy to ban it from the Constitution . . . Race is truly a reality.”
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Kwaku Anansi: The only folklore character to travel out of Africa and become a global symbol of resistance | Face2Face Africa
KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture.The West African folktale character is a spider with human characteristics from the Akan culture of West Africa.
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