The Scars of Being Policed While Black
From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to a device to torment people in custody, racist police brutality runs deep. By Laurence Ralph, The New York Times I made the film…
Converse Announces It Will Pay Salary of WNBA Star Natasha Cloud
“We are proud to have her on the Converse team, are humbled to match her forfeited player’s salary, and look forward to working together with Natasha on these issues as…
You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work
The Covid-19 infodemic taught social media giants like YouTube and Reddit an important lesson: They can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites. By Joan Donovan, Wired FOR…
Nike Pulls Redskins Online Merchandise, Hours After FedEx Demands a Name Change
By Scott McDonald, Newsweek The Washington Redskins have avoided changing the team’s nickname for more than 50 years of political pressure. Politicians and human rights advocacy groups could not find…
Jacklean Davis Was The First Black Woman To Serve As a Homicide Detective in New Orleans. Did A Now Disbarred Prosecutor Bring About Her Fall?
In the 1990s, Davis was a policing superstar, hailed as the best crime solver the Crescent City had ever seen. But a dispute over a paid detail at a festival…
Netflix Moves $100 Million in Deposits to Bolster Black Banks
The streaming giant will permanently shift a share of its cash to financial institutions that serve Black communities, allowing them to lend more. By Michael J. de la Merced, The…
Meet The Woman Behind The First Black-Owned Community Solar Energy Company
By Dana Givens, Black Enterprise Solar energy is promised to be the new source of our power as we move into the future. It is important that as this new…
A Softball Team’s Tweet to Trump Leads Players to Quit Mid-Series
The players said they did not want a photo of them standing during the national anthem to be used for political purposes. By Natalie Weiner, The New York Times For…
Sacramento sheriff investigating video that shows deputy kick man during arrest
The Instagram post reveals the officers later determined they had the wrong guy. While he did not apparently have a warrant, he was arrested for resisting arrest. By Robert Samuels,…
Black TV writers have often felt like ‘diversity decoration.’ Now they’re braced for another round of promises.
Even the casual conversations left an impression on Prentice Penny. By Sonia Rao, The Washington Post Over a decade later, the television writer still remembers overhearing his white co-workers on…