Even though invitations to “the cookout” are almost always a topic of contention in our community, I’d like to add yet another person to the guest list: Dolly Parton. Now before you get in a tizzy, allow me to explain why.
Please tell your lovers and friends, that the music festival with everybody and their momma set to perform is apparently back on again!
Ladies and gentlemen...The Weeknd. Actually, maybe I should say, “Ladies and gentlemen...Abel Tesfaye.” Or both at the same time.
More than three months after a Black Missouri teenager was found dead at a party hosted by a man whose social media can best be described as “how to be a pro racist,” a Missouri jury has overruled the coroner’s initial findings and declared that the 19-year-old’s gunshot wound was not self-inflicted.
In May, two twin Black girls had the unfortunate experience of being in a social studies class at Sacajawea Middle School in Spokane, Wash., where they and other students were given the ill-advised assignment of cleaning cotton. Apparently, the activity was meant to teach students about the industrial revolution and…