Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Gets Juneteenth Cash Payments From White Friends As Form Of Reparations

Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Somali immigrants, receives money on Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in America Isra Hirsi, the daughter of “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), has received “reparations” payments from her white friends on Juneteenth most years...

Why Many Black Americans Feel Solidarity With Palestinians

In April 1952, W. E. B. Du Bois stepped onto the stage of the ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat in Midtown Manhattan. His beard was grizzled and he was still working out how to lecture through new dentures. In a word, he was old. During his long life, he’d witnessed the dawn of Jim Crow and the glow o...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the public intellectual whose writing has sparked national conversations about reparations and race in the United States, has written a book indicting Israel for its mistreatment of Palestinians and occupation of their territory. “The Message,” which comes out Tuesday, is Coates’...

All-Black crew denied work at Hunters Point site despite HUD rule

Today was the ninth day an all-Black crew was denied work at a construction site in their backyard.At 6:45 a.m. sharp on Sept. 24, a group of 12 men and women in hard hats and work boots gathered on the corner of Beatrice Lane and Espanola Street in Hunters Point. Some walked over from their homes a...

‘She Has Very Unlikeable Energy’: ‘Wicked’ Actress Cynthia Erivo’s Past Tweets ‘Disrespecting Black Americans’ Resurface Ahead of Film with Ariana Grande

Tony award-winner Cynthia Erivo is making history as the first Black actress to play Elphaba in “Wicked,” but not everyone is cheering. The Broadway star, who has transitioned to the big screen as Harriet Tubman in “Harriet” (2019) and Aretha Franklin in “Genius” (2021), has come under fire over sev...

‘Deeply Troubling’: Ohio Police Under Fire In Death of 15-Year-Old Black Boy Gunned Down by Officers Who Don’t Administer Aid for Minutes Instead Shout Demands As Teen Lay Dying

Questions are mounting among community members in one northeast Ohio city where a 15-year-old Black teenager was shot by police on Thanksgiving night. Police in Akron, Ohio, have released few details since 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker was gunned down by an officer armed with a rifle outside Miller...

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New York City Comptroller: “Jordan Neely’s Death Is An Indictment Of Broken Systems…Daniel Penny Is Not A hero.”

Photos: YouTube Screenshots New York, NY—New York City Comptroller Brad Lander released the following statement on the verdict in the death of Jordan Neely:  “Jordan Neely’s death is an indictment of broken systems that failed to provide him with the mental health care he needed, when he...

Lifestyle - / Hot Topics Talk - 6 hours ago

Post-Brown billionaires: The state of the city and nation

Unbridled oligarchy rears its ugly head. – Art: Kenya Ratcliff, AI by Bay View Editorial Board If you were paying any attention to demographic and economic forecasts in the 1990s, you would have noticed that by the 2020s the U.S. was projected to be majority non-white and the economy of China...

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The Source |Let’s Play a Game: Big 3 Roulette – Top 3 Rapper Scenarios That Matter

The debate over rap’s “Big 3” – Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and J. Cole – has dominated hip-hop discourse for years. It pretty much lead to the most prolific feud, beef and diss season since maybe Jay Z vs Nas, Jada vs Beanie Siegel … But what if we spin a proverbial roulette wheel on this idea of who’s...

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