For the last five decades, the Black Panther Party has been synonymous with Black freedom and resistance—a legacy that endured even after co-founder Dr. Huey P. Newton was murdered in 1989 in Oakland, Ca., the organization’s birthplace.
Fam, this is not a drill: Unless you and your nearest and dearest have decided to forego gift-giving during this swiftly approaching holiday season, you should get started shopping—now. No, not because of any tired tropes about our own, culturally specific timetable, but because, as noted by the homie and VSB Senior…
Last Sunday, hundreds of demonstrators met under a giant mural of Ahmaud Arbery in the coastal city of Brunswick, Ga., in order to push for justice prior to the jury selection in the trial against three white men accused of killing the Black jogger.
At one point in time, the public square in Franklin, Tenn., known for its bustling city shops and eateries as well as a statue of a Confederate soldier in its center, called “Chip” by the locals, was also the site of public lynchings and a slave auction block.
I’m a person who writes for a living, right? Like, that is my entire job is to sit here and put words in a Google Doc and get them edited to perfection by my super smart editors so as to ensure what I wrote makes sense. I do that on a pretty regular basis.