The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Parry’s research examines slavery in the Atlantic world. His work has appeared in the Journal of Southern History, American Studies, and Jacobin.com. He is currently revising his manuscript Bound in Bondage: Slave Matrimony in the African Diaspora for publication. Finn is a graduate student of American Studies at Californi
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By Victor Ochieng
The conversation surrounding the police killing of unarmed African-American men is ongoing. Discussions are centered on whether Black lives really matter in America and why the people who swear to protect these lives end up as the killers.
However, as these conversations continue, the Black community shouldn’t forget to address the issue of unemployment and lack of business ownership that are equally serious threats to Black survival.
We saw the killing of Alton Sterling an
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Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of police-shooting victim Philando Castile, urged against violence at protests in the aftermath of his death, which she streamed on Facebook Live using her cellphone during the fatal traffic stop in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday evening.
Reynolds said that she was "baffled" to see some protesters responding to police brutality with more violence.
In St. Paul this weekend, prote
Facebook user, Rayshone Burke Manuel, put up an inspiring post that features him praying with a police officer in the middle of a parking lot. Manuel, also known as the artist, I AM BURKE, used his hip-hop track, “WAR ROOM (No Prayer, No Power)” as the background track for the video.
Television host Wendy Williams is known for “saying it like she means it” spilling the tea since she stepped on the entertainment scene as a gossip-y radio personality.
Normally, Williams is catching from celebrities, but this week, everyone is giving her plenty of side eyes. Unless you’ve been hiding from civilization, then you already know that Williams’ made some offensive comments about HBCUs and the NAACP while discussing Jesse Williams’ BET Awards acceptance speech dur
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012, when a shooter entered a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and fatally shot 20 children between the
After the disturbing deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of law enforcement officers this week, racial bias and police brutality have once again become heated subjects in the US.
Several online commenters have noted that the safety of black Americans doesn’t seem to have improved much since Jim Crow laws were struck down in 1965. In fact, US police seem to be killing more black citizens today than were lynched at the he
A new river has formed in the United States. The name of it is the White Tears River and it’s filled with the tears of white people who feel Jesse Williams’ recent BET Awards speech was racist.
While crying their tears, these people took time out to even start a petition to remove the actor from Grey’s Anatomy.
The petition is titled, “Sign
My family on July 4th 1776.
@lecrae Done supporting you bro. You make everything a race issues lately instead of a gospel issue. You promote guilt instead of love.
@Hevi_On_Honkers nah it's actually your tweets that are problematic racially. pic.twitter.com/3DckwriYEx
*Stacey Dash has a new target.
Commenting on the speech given by Jesse Williams at the 2016 BET Awards, the right wing pundit wrote, “You’ve just seen the perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave!”
“Sorry, Mr. Williams. But the fact that you were standing onstage at THOSE awards tells people you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Just spewing hate and anger,” she continued on her Patheos Blog.
Dash also took issue with Williams’ critique of “the bystander” – a term she seems
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
Make room in your holiday shopping cart! Goldiblox is debuting their first African-American action figure for girls. Since the company started three years ago, their mission has been to get girls building and inspire a future generation of female engineers.
Building and construction toys have long been considered “boy toys”. Goldiblox has aimed to change the idea that only boys can be interested in technology and engineering principles. The company has tapped into girls’ strong verbal skills t
By Liku Zelleke
“A Fine Dessert”, a children’s book by Emily Jenkins, is set to be one of the favorites to win the prestigious Caldecott Award. Published in January 2015, the story tells of “four families, in four cities, over four centuries” making blackberry fool – a dessert.
Among the four times and locations is that of Charleston in the year 1810, when the dessert is prepared by a slave mother and daughter for their white masters.
This particular part of the book has drawn criticism fo
Hearing the term red-lining in 2015 may seem oxymoronic. Right? Not necessarily, at least according to some new data.
Americans have been making a collective mistake: thinking that wealthy non-whites do not face discrimination anymore, and can, therefore, live wherever they prefer. It was a complaint brought up by the National Fair Housing Alliance this year that showed the issue is still alive and relevant. This is happening fifty years after the abolishment of housing discrimination by Con
by G. Brown
There are fans who say they can’t live without their weekly fix in their Cookie or Oliva Pope addictions. The shows have become a part of TV history because of phenomenal ratings success featuring Black casts and Black actresses/actors in lead roles. While shows like the aforementioned and a handful of others celebrate groundbreaking success because of Black viewers, there are critics who think the shows are doing more harm than good.
One viewer says he will no longer watch “Empi
Back in the heyday of Jet magazine, that weekly digest of short, fizzy articles about black life, there was a back-page feature simply called “Television.” It was a no-frills rundown of nearly every black person who would be appearing on prime-time TV over the coming week, just their nam
Christian rapper Thi’sl, a St. Louis-based artist who says he’s always used his platform to address racial and social issues, released a new project last month titled Heavy Is the Head — inspired by events in Ferguson and New York surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Thi’sl covers various topics on the 14-song mixtape that launched Aug. 5, including fatherlessness in the inner city and police brutality. On a song titled “Lord Help Me,” the rapper expresses his frustratio
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SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESSFUL WOMEN
1. In everything you do, always put GOD first.
Many of us have a habit of putting other people first or putting ourselves before anyone or anything. This is what we are taught to do, but it is incorrect and it is damaging. Eloihim must always come first. Everything you do, whether at home or the workplace you must do for him. He comes before your spouse, your boss, your children, your customers. If you put GOD first, all