Black Friday is here and we’re all looking for great gifts for our loved ones. If you’re also looking to spend some of your hard-earned dollars with black-owned small businesses, we’ve got the perfect online fix for you. Back by popular demand, we’ve compiled another list of amazing…
All throughout high school I was known as “the girl who was saving herself for marriage,” and that label followed me well into college. My virginity often times preceded me; many people knew about me not having sex before they even got to know me. It got to the point where my guy friends would…
Life is hard. It can be extra hard for a Black girl who will one day become a Black woman. What do you tell her about this thing called life and how to navigate the twists and turns? What pearls, what gems, what lessons will help her along the way? Here are 10 powerful quotes […]
“I think the media lies.” blurted out Steven*, a 6th grader at the Nativity School of Harrisburg in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was the first of many candid and thoughtful responses that I received from my conversations with over 40 young African-American and Latino boys about their views on what…
Not for a second have I believed that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would be indicted for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown. Not in the moments after hearing about the shooting, not during the four hours Brown’s body lay in the streets, not when the police attacked protesters in the first few weeks…
Financial executive Mellody Hobson gave a great TED Talk on the problems with color blindness and the importance of representation. As one of the two Black female chairs of a publicly traded company, Hobson has had enough run-in’s with colorblind racism to be an authority on the topic. The business…
The vision is a city interlaced with restorative justice hubs — community centers that bring hope and promise to troubled kids in a town where too many of them are dying. “It is not OK that my friends and I have already planned our funerals,” then-high school senior Keann Mays-Lenoir…
GENEVA (AFP) – Activists stood in silent protest as the United States on Thursday defended its record before a UN anti-torture watchdog, raising their fists and displaying pictures of victims of police brutality. On the second and final day of the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of the United…
