Billionaire spaceman Jeff Bezos donated $100 million of his multibillion dollar empire to the Obama Foundation in honor of late civil rights giant Congressman John Lewis. The donation included one stipulation: the naming of the plaza in front of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
Back in June, I told y’all about the then-upcoming sports documentary The Queen of Basketball, which chronicles the life and times of one of basketball’s unheralded heroines, Lusia “Lucy” Harris. And if you have no godly idea who she is, you aren’t alone—which is kind of the point of the film. But since I’m a kind and…
“Gift Black This Holiday,” urges the The Fifteen Percent Pledge, which has changed the way major retailers respond to Black-owned businesses by compelling them to allocate at least 15 percent of their product offerings to Black-owned brands and vendors, to reflect our demographics in the United States. Created by…
Videos of Ocean City, Maryland police officers beating and tasing Black teenagers for vaping on the boardwalk sparked outrage this past summer.
Will Marc Wilson, a Black man, be able to claim self-defense in the killing of a 17-year-old teenage girl, Haley Hutcheson, in Statesboro, Georgia?