Category : Lifestyle

Buffalo State Hires Three Faculty Members to Staff Its New Africana Studies Major

Buffalo State University is using funds from the State University of New York’s Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth (PRODI-G) initiative to hire new faculty members to strengthen the university’s Black stud...

3 Reasons You Should Big Chop Now

If you follow Mo Knows Hair then you have probably noticed that she does her friends hair quite often and the lady pictured above has been transitioning for a year now under Mo’s supervision. In the below video, Mo does her final chop to...

Black Students Respond to Racist Incident on the Campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder

Two Black students at the University of Colorado at Boulder were verbally abused by a White woman who is not affiliated with the university. After the incident, the Black Student Alliance issued a set of demands asking the campus to adhere to and add...

The University of Florida Has the Most Black Women Faculty in Engineering

At the flagship campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, African Americans make up just 6 percent of the 35,000-member undergraduate student body, according to the latest data supplied to the U.S. Department of Education. African Americans...

Robert Johnson – got to keep moving.

downatthecrossroads.wordpress.com - Robert Johnson is an almost mythical figure in the history of the blues. The chronology of his life is somewhat hazy – we are unsure even of when he was born but it was probably around 1911 in Hazelh…Tweeted by @bl...

Prisons Disproportionately Ban Books on Race and Civil Rights, PEN America Report Finds

pastemagazine.com - Banned Books Week has arrived, and literary nonprofit PEN America has released a new policy paper as part of their ongoing initiative fighting for the right of incarcerated people to read freely. PEN…Tweeted by @IAmBumblebee https...

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jjaarrr.tumblr.com - @jjaarr - I dont know where youre getting your statistics from but I’m from Australia. Gun control laws were implemented after a mass shooting took place at Port Arthur, in my state, back in 96. Sinc…

Sixty-Four Years After the Montgomery Bus Boycott The City Leads The Way Again

medium.com - When the news broke that Montgomery, Alabama, my birthplace, had elected its first black mayor and that he had received two-thirds of the vote, a wave of stunned incredulity swept over me. With this …Tweeted by @Aundra_Willis https://twi...

Black disabled folks have been separated from the Black community since slavery

sfbayview.com - What did it mean when non-disabled slaves were set free? Slavery ended in the U.S. after the 13th Amendment was ratified on Dec. 6, 1865. However, disabled slaves were kept on plantations because sla…Tweeted by @kriphopnation https://...

The Roadmap to Reparations Explained by #ADOS

eurweb.com - *In recent weeks as Democratic candidates have announced their bid for the Presidential nomination of the party, the national discussion is shifting from the U.S.-Mexico border and DACA to a reckonin…Tweeted by @larryrsallee https://twit...

The U.S. Is Still Forcibly Sterilizing Prisoners

talkpoverty.org - In the wake of the neo-Nazi attacks in Charlottesville, officials in several Southern states have renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces. This week, North Carolina Gov. Roy …Tweeted by @info28702211 https:/...

The Ugly Racial History of “Right to Work” | Dissent

dissentmagazine.org - Southern conservatives—including “right to work” progenitor and avowed white supremacist Vance Muse—feared that if unions united working-class whites and blacks, they could upend the Jim Crow order. …Tweeted by @ATLCWorker https...

Five Life Lessons From Oprah

Working mom at luncheonRecently, I had the privilege of having lunch with Oprah Winfrey. In full disclosure, it was me Oprah and about a thousand of my closest friends. Actually,& I was with my sister, some close friends and a bunch of people I didn...

Want to vend at the I DON’T DO CLUBS Home #BlackOwned Holiday Pop-Up Shop?

I DON’T DO CLUBS Home is hosting its first holiday pop-up shop on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 369 Lexington Avenue, 22nd Floor, Suite 1, New York, NY 10016 from 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Click HERE to RSVP. There will only be seven non-competing...

Is Drug War Driven Mass Incarceration the New Jim Crow?

forbes.com - Once in a great while a writer at the opposite end of the political spectrum gets you to look at a familiar set of facts in a new way. Disconcerting as it is, you can feel your foundation shift as yo…Tweeted by @dentistsHATEhim https://t...