Chicken, Waffles, and Smashing the Patriarchy | Mother Jones
How chef Tanya Holland turned her “little utopia” in West Oakland into a soul food empire. (function() { if ( ! window.mc4wp) { window.mc4wp = { listeners: , forms :…
10 James Baldwin Books to Read in Your Lifetime
More from the literary legend behind If Beale Street Could Talk. James Baldwin is an iconic author for our time, a writer who gave the world countless poignant essays, shorts…
School district faces $12M lawsuit over ‘racist’ photo of African American students
Parents plan to sue a New York school district for $12 million after one of its teachers allegedly wrote the phrase “Monkey do” above a photograph of four African American…
Born Into Slavery, This Centenarian Learned to Read at 116, Becoming the Nation’s Oldest Student
Despite being born into slavery and enduring over a century of discrimination, Mary Hardway Walker managed to accomplish an extraordinary feat. At 116 years old, she learned to read. Walker…
Don’t tell me I’m ‘too pretty to be Aboriginal’. It’s not a compliment; it’s racism
Aboriginal women are all too familiar with this phrase. In her new documentary, Sasha Sarago investigates the racism behind it. I was 11 years old when my best friend’s sister…
Cory Booker Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race
The New Jersey senator, who built his campaign around a message of unity, was unable to catch on with substantial numbers of voters and ended his quest before voting began.…
Christian Soldiers | Slate
The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals. The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but…
Everyone And Their Mama Was In Ghana For The Holidays
The FOMO was real this holiday season as Black excellence hit the streets of Accra, Ghana. If you weren’t in Ghana for the holidays, you were probably the only one.…
The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare
Detroit’s most vulnerable residents face inequalities like toxic air, lead poisoning, and water shutoffs. Now they’re fighting back. Growing up in southwest Detroit, Vince Martin thought it was normal for…
Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi.
A few years ago, I read slave narratives to explore the lives of black agricultural workers after the end of the Civil War. JACKSON, Miss.—During her shifts at a Church’s…