Starbucks is in damage control after a video went viral over the weekend showing two black men being arrested at a Philadelphia store. The men, who have not been identified, walked into Starbucks and sat down. They asked to use the bathroom, but an employee refused because they hadn’t ordered anything, and after the men […]
In an ongoing study, Black Women's Blueprint found that 60 percent of Black women report having been raped before the age of 18. But part of the challenge has been calling Black men into community to reckon not only with racism, but also with racialized sexual violence and sexualized and gendered racism.
This particular study reinforces stereotypes that have always been in place, along with reports of police brutality. (CNN) — When we look at black men, what is and what we see are often different things. Namely, we may see black men as bigger, stronger, and scarier than white men, even if they are the […]
Maurice Ashley first made his mark in the world of chess after he was recognized as a chess Grandmaster in 1999, making him the…
Guard your daughters and your wives. Guess who’s a free man? Jeremy Meeks, the Southern California felon whose sexy mugshot blew up the internet two…
Legendary boxer Jack Johnson is best known to many as the first Black heavyweight champion in the sport. In 1913, Johnson’s arrest for a…
Hundreds of years ago, slaves sought the North Star to point them in the direction of Northern states and Canada so they they could escape…
WASHINGTON, DC — I stood on the National Mall Saturday with tens of thousands of African-American men and women and witnessed the evolution of a…
That whole 'angry Black woman' thing doesn't apply here.
Starbucks is on a mission to recruit a lost generation of America’s young, poor and unemployed to correct a decades-long pattern of neglect in corporate…
When I think of Father’s Day and all the memories as a child, the part that sticks out the most, is that my father was…
