• 14 Black Actors You Didn’t Know Were British

    The Black British boom is big in Hollywood. While we all know about Daniel Kaluuya, John Boyega and Idris Elba, did you know that some of your other favorite television and film actors also hail from across the pond? Despite their talent for faking American and African accents, the stars of movies like Black Panther and… Continue reading 14 Black Actors You Didn’t Know Were British

  • University Of South Carolina Unveils Monument Honoring Black Students Who Desegregated Campus

    An impressive monument was unveiled at the University of South Carolina to honor Robert Anderson, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. — the three students whose enrollment 60 years ago changed the course of the university’s history. The Board of Trustees commissioned a 12-foot bronze monument near McKissick Museum. In 2022, the school shared… Continue reading University Of South Carolina Unveils Monument Honoring Black Students Who Desegregated Campus

  • Tennessee House kills bill that would have banned local officials from studying, funding reparations

    Tennessee’s Republican-dominant House on Wednesday spiked legislation that would have banned local governments from paying to either study or dispense money for reparations for slavery. It easily cleared the Republican-controlled Senate last April, but lawmakers eventually hit pause as the House became consumed with controversy over expelling two Black Democratic lawmakers for their participating in a pro-gun control protest from the House floor. Interest in the reparations bill emerged again this year, just as lawmakers and GOP Gov. Bill Lee were in the process of finalizing the removal and replacement of every board member of the state's only publicly-funded historically Black public university, Tennessee State University.

  • Pro-Palestinian US high school students accuse school of censoring speech

    Some U.S. students at Washington, D.C.'s Jackson-Reed High School filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging the public high school's administrators censored them by prohibiting pro-Palestinian events. The lawsuit said administrators treated the Arab Student Union, a student club at the high school, differently from other groups like the Black Student Union and the Asian Student Union by restricting its activities. "For the past four months, it [the Arab Student Union] and its members have been trying to engage in expressive activities at the high school - showing a documentary film, putting up posters, distributing literature, presenting a cultural program - but have been stopped at every turn by the school administration," the lawsuit said.

  • 10 years after Flint's lead water crisis was discovered, a lack of urgency stalls "proper justice"

    FLINT, Mich. — Ten years ago, smiling politicians posed for cameras while pushing a button, swapping the main tap water source for this majority-Black, impoverished city to the Flint River — the untreated water that started flowing from residents’ taps would become contaminated when it corroded the pipes.

  • This Black-Owned Juice Bar In Baltimore Is Focusing On Hiring Teenagers Residing In The Community Of Its New Location

    A Black couple looking to inspire the lives of teens is looking to assist in transforming Baltimore‘s once-crowded attraction known as Harborplace back to its roots.