Tag: Black

The Black Girl Burn-Out

Working in new-age tech spaces opens your eyes to different concepts. A coworker and I had a mandatory DEI session that was about dealing with “Imposter Syndrom and Burnout”. These sessions rely heavily on the fact that they’re mandatory. Otherwise, who’d waste the time? I...

She’s Too Black!

Two years ago, a friend from home hugged me out of nowhere. I jumped but smiled when I realized who she was. “I hardly recognized you,” she said, noting that my skin looked darker. I told her I just got back from a beach vacation. She responded that she “avoids the sun in the summe...

9 Rarest Black People In The World

Every person is unique — right? Even among twins, there are often differences in their appearance. Well, for some people, these distinctive features make them some of the rarest individuals in the entire world. We’re turning away from the standard beauty expectations that developed in...

Why I Felt Divorced From My Masculinity as a Gay Black Man

“You can’t do that!” was one of my mother's infamous lines. From an outsider's perspective, her delivery would not suggest mockery, but rather a simple statement conveying an honest appraisal of one’s ability based on prior experiences. Onlookers might equate th...

Where Are They Now? Trump’s Black People Didn’t Fare Well

Stacey Dash — “I was the angry, conservative, Black woman.” For a few years, Stacey Dash had achieved a popularity/notoriety she hadn’t achieved since co-starring in the movie Clueless. Stacey was a regular contributor on Fox News, supporting Donald Trump and denouncing Bl...

I See Black People, And I’m Not Racist

I’m writing this piece from the vantage point of an ordained Christian minister who is also a tenured professor teaching at a liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). My comments regarding racism and colorblindness reflect a specific critique of C...

Into the Black Hole: What’s at Stake for Comedy/Variety Writers in the WGA Strike

When Greg Iwinski joined the Writers Guild of America East, his work as a late-night writer was covered under what is known as Appendix A in the Guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement with the Association of Motion Pictures and Television Producers. “It’s cal...

What to the Black Man or Woman is Labor Day?

Apologies to Frederick Douglass for paraphrasing the title of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" As was the case with the Fourth of July holiday, Black people didn't share equally in the holiday's creation. We start with the origin of Labor Day. The fi...

Double Whammy in the Black Sea

In the last few days Ukraine has conducting a series of daring exploits in the Black Sea area, effectively nullifying any need for a future “Grain Deal” with Russia. The “Nation Without a Navy” has continued to limit Russia’s ability to project force and even put its ve...

Why So Many Black Americans Are Stuck in Survival Mode

Ifyou've ever lived in survival mode, you know what it's like to try to juggle competing interests, to wonder whether you have enough food to last until payday, whether you can afford utility bills, or even make your rent or monthly mortgage payments. As one report shows, more than half...

America's First Black Slaves: What Florida Won't Teach You

With all respect to the 1619 Project, some of the first enslaved Black people to arrive in what is now the continental United States arrived in Florida in 1565. Florida wasn't one of the original colonies then, bouncing back and forth between France, England, and Spain once Europeans arrived. It...

It’s Hard To Be Both American and Black

There’s an essay in my drafts folder that’s eight years old. Currently, it’s about an 11-min read with one page of citations. It’s one of the pieces I return to, every few months or so, to jot down a few observations. Stray thoughts. When I started it, I told myself I...

I Am Not Your Perfect Black Woman

As a middle-aged, queer, neurodivergent Black woman, everyone projects their assumptions about me, many of them negative. For most of my life, to be deemed worthy, I tried to either disprove those assumptions or align myself with them, depending on the person doing the assuming. My age has given me ...

As A Black Woman, I Can Admit Anime Has Changed My Life

Over on Substack, I completed a 20-minute podcast on how and why I got into anime and explained why this medium is life-changing and significant for me as a Black woman. Looking over the chapter of my life before anime, everything appears in technicolor. There is lif...

Why So Many Black Americans Are Stuck in Survival Mode

America's First Black Slaves: What Florida Won't Teach You

It’s Hard To Be Both American and Black

10 Ways A Covert Narc’s Swirling Negativity Reminds Me of A Black Hole

Black Holes are infinitely dense and infinitely dark. Once you pass the event horizon, nothing escapes. Not even light. I don’t know much about Black Holes, but I know a lot about covert narcissists and their relentless negativity. Covert narcissists are friendly, helpful, and accommodat...

I See Black People, And I’m Not Racist

What to the Black Man or Woman is Labor Day?

As A Black Woman, I Can Admit Anime Has Changed My Life

“Can I Call You Black?”

She was in my business administration class at a university where I was pursuing my second bachelor’s degree, because I couldn’t find a job with the first degree I held in history from my native country of Burundi, in East Africa I had come from a country not many people in North Amer...

“Can I Call You Black?”

“Can I Call You Black” — Part Two

How to disrupt racial discrimination in our daily lives I believe most people want to end racial discrimination, but what we lack is the courage and willingness to address the elephant in the room and end racism once and for all. We know what needs to be done, but it can be uncomfortable, beginni...

Black Metal: A Form of Contemporary Art

Black metal. The name alone conjures images of corpse-painted guitarists shredding away in a blizzard of minor key riffs, guttural vocals rasping unholy lyrics, blast beats raging at chaotic speeds. This is music designed to evoke the frozen darkness of the soul, channeling rage, sorrow, and existen...

Using White Ink on Black Paper

Since being back in Canada, my art supply collection has grown considerably. It’s so nice to be able to walk into a place like Michaels and find any art supply that I could ever dream of. While traveling, it is always difficult to locate supplies and even harder to find anything of quality. ...

The Black Heart — a remastered horror gem

I admit this is a little break from my usual formula, because today’s indie game has a publisher — Saibot Studios (a reference to Mortal Kombat?) — but it’s for a good cause: The Black Heart, a one person effort from back in 2009, recently got a HD remaster,...

Why Is My PlayStation 2 In Black and White?

Why Is My PlayStation 2 In Black and White? Sony’s PlayStation 2 is a vintage gaming console. We all have had our time with this console back in the day. Now, if you are going to revisit the PlayStation 2, you might come across some troubles setting it up. The most commonly asked questio...

Barcelona in a black hole

A city so bright and vibrant, a city brimming with people who were never meant to stay. People who aren’t really people, echoes of nihilistic individualism, empty faces with blank expressions a long gone memory of connection, of what mankind used to be, today the sea is a glittering po...

You’re a black crow (In Berlin)

In Berlin, time nests in between the cobbles of the narrow streets, soaked in a deep slumber of sleep, dust its blanket, passerby bicycles its dreams. You’re so aware of your existence in gray, quiet Berlin. The vast, cunning sky sheltering the city, moments before the raindrops fall, resemble...

CRIMSON, BLACK & BLUE

An Interview with Cheryl Devall, Harvard Crimson Journalist During the Stride Rite Murders of 1979. Monday March 9th, 2020 This conversation has been edited for clarity and length. K.B.L.: Hi Cheryl, thank you for making time to speak with me. C.D. : No problem at all, thank you for re...

Why Johnny Depp’s “Black Mass” FAILED At Becoming A Classic Gangster Movie

In this clip, we see an admittedly entertaining exchange between Whitey Bulger played by Johnny Depp, a clearly corrupt police officer, and Tommy King played by Scott Anderson. Like every other scene in the film, this moment is well-shot with some nice balanced uses ...

There I Was, Black in Buenos Aires

For most people, an international journey involves stepping out of your cultural comfort zone. But for the Black traveler does international travel require a bigger leap? When Black travelers cross borders and barriers, some may wonder to what extent racism resides across the lines. When I decide...

A Black woman’s journey to the end of the earth

That’s the question people ask about my travels to icy Antarctica. A decade ago, before it was popular to put on your bucket list, I decided to visit all seven continents before I turned 50. Of course, COVID put a damper on that, but the chance to go to Antarctica came quickly and out of the b...

THE NEWS IN WHITE AND BLACK

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 1916 — On a frigid and windblown day, a small item appeared in a Chicago newspaper. Several hundred black families had quietly left Selma, Alabama, heading north. Their treatment in the South, one refugee told the paper, “doesn’t warrant staying.” ...

Why do Danes Wear Black?

Wearing black is not a phenomena unique to Copenhagen — individuals across the globe wear black. But it’s become somewhat of an essential adjective when someone describes Copenhagen, especially when you’re trying to capture the essence of the crowd. And there’s a re...

Being Black in Dubai

Many people in this world simply think that due to the high amount of conflict and threat to international security occurring in certain places within the Middle East, that the entire area should become a “No Travel Zone” for people all over the world. These people are ignorant. There we...

Encountering The Black Swan

Black swans are a rare sight in London, indeed, anywhere in the UK. They’re not native here. It evokes excitement, whenever I see one precisely because they are so exotic. It’s an exotic bird over in North America too. In Europe, it never established a large population in th...

This London is too small.

The topic of dating in London within the black community is one that frequents ‘black Twitter’. At times the conversations are mind-numbing, sometimes taking up a good part of our scrolls during the day once the masses get fired up during the debates, with multiple people repeating the s...

The Black Noel (Intro)

Danny Diamond was in a black mood. It followed him like a thunderhead as Eddie Valentino steered him down the flagstone path and up to the front door of the Spanish-style mansion. Hancock Park was a neighborhood the two detectives rarely ventured into. The money lived here, the who’s who of...

What Reparations Look Like for Black Californians

During this morning’s post-meditation scroll through my Instagram feed, I learned that a few of my local business owner friends, Tony Jolly of HOT and COOL CAFE and Ade Neff of Ride On Bike Shop Co-Op — along with another Leimert Park shop owner — are looking to buy the building in...

The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia

On January 15, 1947, housewife Betty Bersinger and her three-year-old daughter Anne were out on a morning walk. The pair were bundled from a cold snap that had settled over Southern California when they discovered the dismembered body of an unidentified woman in a weed-litter lot in Leimert Park. ...

How My Mixed-Race Daughter Used Her Black Friend’s ID To Get Into A Nightclub

My mixed race daughter graduated from high school last May. She’s the youngest in her class and will turn 18 in a few weeks. All her classmates are already 18 and can get into nightclubs all over Europe. As per the tradition at her school, she and her classmates traveled to Prague to celebr...

The Forgotten Roots of Antifascism: Ethiopia’s Black Lions

In today’s rapidly evolving sociopolitical landscape, the term “Antifa” has burgeoned, becoming synonymous with a form of resistance that is as vigorous as it is controversial. A derivative of “antifascist”, this term has transcended its literal meaning, emerging as a m...

What Is Black Wednesday?

Recently we had a friend who’s never heard of the tradition, “Black Wednesday” — this inspired us to write about it for the blog today. “Black Wednesday” isn’t your typical tradition; it’s more like a pre-party to Thanksgiving that’s become a sta...

Five Effective Ways for Educators to Start a Black Student Association (BSA) at Your School

Most BSAs are set up to be spaces where Black students can express themselves and safely celebrate their intersectional identities. These groups in schools require a commitment from staff and students to intentionally acknowledge the race and cultural backgrounds of the participants. For example, Bl...

60,000 Black businesses by 2028

Jewish-owned businesses are the number one employers of Jews; however, Black-owned businesses are not the number one employers of Black people in Canada. Over the last few months, I had the pleasure of giving lectures and explaining why there should be a need for a Labour Market Needs Assessment ...

The Black Falconer: A Documentary Showcasing The Real Power of Connection

It’s Black Birding Week and boy do we have a film for you. Rodney Stotts, above, is one of a handful of Black falconers in the nation and he is on a mission to save the birds and probably us too in the process. He is all about second chances: for raptors, for abandoned land, for abandoned high...

Black Bears v. 9 mm Handguns

Google whether a 9 mm pistol is enough to stop an attacking black bear and the answers vary. (NOTE: Black bear. This is not about Grizzlies or brown bears. Black bears are the subject matter. There are night and day differences in intentions, size, and temper between the types.) Th...

How The White American Dream Has Become a Black Nightmare

The American Dream of white picket fences, apple pies cooling on window sills, and communities so safe you could leave your front door unlocked is not something everyone has access to. This is not by accident but by design, as the founding fathers initially excluded Black people and women of any rac...

Why Court Blocked Fearless Fund Designed to Help Black Women

Imagine someone running before the whistle is blown and claiming after they win the race that it was fair, and instead of intervening, the referee and onlookers remain silent. That is what it is like to be a Black woman in America. While many people endorse the meritocracy myth, we're clearly ru...

Black Food Fund: Power in Practice

Blog Two: Power in Practice Hello Brave and Shift have written eloquently about the evolution of the Black Food Fund (BFF) over the last few years, and the messiness and the emotions this journey has evoked. We hope that through writing these blogs, we can pull back the curtai...

Surviving the Aftermath of a Bad Mortgage: A Cautionary Tale of Buying Black in America.

We are sold the notion homeownership is the pinnacle of the American Dream. But what happens if that dream is nothing more than a nightmare disguised as a mortgage? As we near what seems to be another housing collapse, many people are uncertain about what 2023 and beyond will hold as it relates t...

Black Cherry Ice Cream and Retirement

Yesterday I went to Walmart for ice cream. I recently discovered that my favorite ice cream, Tillamook, is always way less expensive there than at any local grocery store. In any event, I usually get any flavor that includes the word chocolate. As I considered my choices, I noticed the Black Cher...

Not exactly God’s chosen people: in the Talmud, Jews refer to Mother Mary as a whore, Jesus Christ as the son of a whore, as a black magician, blasphemer, and idolater.

According to Wikipedia, “the Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology”. The author of “Jesus in the Talmud” is the renowned Jewish scholar Dr. Peter Schäfer. His scholarly focus has been to rec...

Buddha with a black nose — A short Zen story

A nun used to live in a Buddhist monastery in the beautiful valleys of Darjeeling. She would perform her duties sincerely and spent her days in peace. She kept a small silver-colored Buddha idol with herself, which she would worship every day with love by offering flowers and lighting incense. On...

How white people treated black people in the past?

Toni Morrison sketches the personality of Seth in her book. She is a slave and a black woman. The novel is about how white individuals treat the individuals of color. The work inspects the disastrous traditions of servitude as it narratives the existence of an individual of color. Tod...

Police Need To Stop Terrorizing Black Children!

While waiting in the car for his mom to finish some business she was conducting, the call of nature came knocking loud and hard to Quantavious. He badly needed to relieve himself. He looked around to see if there were stores where he could use their facilities. There were none, so ten-year-old ...

Why Do You Only See Me as Big, Black, and Scary?

I’ve heard it all. And if the past designs the future, I expect to hear it all again: “We need someone to stand by the door.” “You’ve done time, right?” “Hey, we’re having trouble with this guy. You can take him.” “Don’t h...

We are not who we think we are

I was asked to give a talk by a London-based company for Black History Month in October 2022. Initially, I was going to title my talk Your Silence Will Not Protect You after the eponymous collection of essays by Audre Lorde and to honour the many silences I have nursed over the years and t...

The Black Aesthetic: Envisioning Blackness in American Graphic Design

The Black aesthetic evolved from a group initiative to enhance the image of the New Negro. In the mid 1920’s, at the end of the First World War, Blacks were faced with a new sense of hope and promise for the future. Expressions of racial pride encouraged Blacks through their art as a means for...

AI Needs Black Minds: Confronting Racial Bias

Throughout history, Black people have been marginalized and excluded from many areas of society. This includes not only socioeconomic and political spheres but also technological advancements. From the digital divide that still exists in many parts of the world to the underrepresentation of Black vo...

Black Success in the U.S. is NOT “Proof” of Racial Equity in the U.S.

In response to a follow-up question in the article, “If a diverse, equitable, and inclusive world is not desirable, what kind of world do you want to live in and why?”, more than one respondent conveyed a pining and longing for a “homogeneous, inequitable, and exclusive&r...

Traveling While Black & Brown

The first big trip Traci Howard-Richards took was a European excursion in 2000, following her college graduation. Howard-Richards adored Paris, with its renowned museums and bustling cafes. And she loved Amsterdam, with its canal-lined streets and candy-colored houseboats. Howard-Richards recalle...

Why Are There No Black Baristas?

Over the years, I’ve worked a number of barista jobs to make ends meet. I got my start working at Starbucks while interning for a think tank. Back then, interns weren’t paid. Even though my $9 an hour barista paycheck was barely enough to cover my portion of the rent, at least it was som...

White Boys Are Reshaping AmeriKa Through Black Women

When I lived in New Mexico I had some beef with a white boy who was married to an Afro-American woman; the daughter was in my youth group. I knew this punk was going to be trouble when we had a team bonding at a pizza place, they strictly enforced wearing masks. This punk was the only dude who would...

Bias Against Black Boys

Most of my teachers loved me, especially in my early years when school came easy. I answered all the questions. I sought to please them. In more advanced classes, I struggled sometimes but I still displayed a passion for their approval. I was usually the only Black student in my Advanced Placement c...

What do a Black scientist, nonprofit executive, and filmmaker have in common? They all face racism in the ‘gray areas’ of workplace culture

Take “Constance,” for example — not her real name — who is a Black female chemical engineering professor at a major research university. Her university proclaims its commitment to diversity and inclusion, with several offices and initiatives dedicated to this goal. Yet she...

The Difference Between Afro-American, Black People, And That Other Word

Around the world, the Afro-American is loved-and he/she is hated. Afro-Americans are exactly what the terminology is: “Americanized Black People”. Ever seen a Black person born with straight hair? Of course not, you will never see a Black person BORN with straight hair. But you see Afro-...

Cadavers of the poor and Black dissected without consent

Every year, first-year medical students approach their human cadavers with a mixture of awe and trepidation. They will come to know their assigned cadaver intimately. During the course of their studies, they will carefully pull back layers of skin, muscle and tissue as they learn the fundamentals of...

Why Are There No Black Baristas?

Understanding Black Critical Theory

Critical Race Theory (CRT) draws from a broad literature base in law, social sciences, ethnic and women’s studies, and history. Its origins lie in the law and the development of Critical Legal Studies in the late 1970s and 1980s as an approach to critiquing the slow pace of Civil Rights legisl...

Symptoms and Remedies of Black Magic

The practice of tantra-mantra has been going on for centuries. Black Magic is a common problem that affects hundreds of people every day. Often there has been talking of misuse more than its use. This makes it more important to learn how to get rid of black magic. Although humans are rational, emoti...

Fall 2023 Syllabus — Contemporary Black Feminist Thought in the Law

This Fall, I have the honor and opportunity to debut a new reading group at the University of Richmond School of Law — Contemporary Black Feminist Thought in the Law. I designed this course as part of my new scholarly journey toward Black feminist epistemic justice through visual culture, the ...

The Real “Black Box” Dilemma of Legacy Legal Research Tools

The good here is that this study put the six legacy services to the test. The goal of the article was, “in part, a call for more algorithmic accountability.” This search for great accountability was interesting, as it mirrored one of the greatest criticism folks have towards AI — t...

Safety for Black College Students

As an educator, graduation season has been my favorite time of year. This past summer, I watched several videos of students achieving various milestones. Yet, I was sickened seeing videos of students — particularly Black students — punished for doing something I enjoy the most: celebrati...

Celebrating Black History Month

As someone who lives and thrives in the world of education, who has much faith in its transformative qualities, I always look at the K-12 system to see what is being done around the country for Black History Month. It is the one opportunity where we as a nation can take deliberate steps to understan...

Can a Black Person Be Racist?

Now, if I said that Trump was corrupt and childish and should be prosecuted, he’d insult me too (c’mon, hit me, big boy). It’s his self-serving way of lashing out, which is significant in itself. But the larger philosophical issue is with his ad hominem attack on these people as &l...

The Black Radical Tradition of Resistance

In recent years, there has been renewed attention to issues of disproportionate police brutality targeting Black citizens and communities, Black voter suppression tactics, racial inequalities in health care, and other types of discrimination and anti-Black racism. This attention has s...

30 Around 30: Young Black Changemakers for 2022

Across the county, young Black changemakers are shaping the cultural landscape to create a more just and equitable society. NextGen America is celebrating Black History Month by highlighting 30 young organizers, activists, artists, and voices for change with our “30 Around 30: Young Black Chan...

The Cost of Complexion: Understanding “The Black Tax” in America

Imagine walking into a store and seeing two identical items, but one is priced higher simply because it’s associated with you. That’s the Black Tax. It’s not a government levy or a line item on a receipt but a societal burden that manifests in numerous ways. It’s the higher i...

Say Thank You to the Black Dude Who Tackled a Judge in a Nevada Courtroom

Come on, admit it. Deobra Redden’s courtroom attack on Nevada Judge Mary Kay Holthus was everything we needed it to be. Shocking, outrageous, and entertaining — it was also telling. Very, very telling. You’ve probably seen the video. Every news outlet from CNN and TMZ to In...

The Black Armband And Free Speech

Reverend Doctor Henry G. Bart, dean emeritus of the Kansas School of Religion, decried the Moratorium to a sympathetic crowd of locals and military personnel gathered in a city park. “They are attacking servicemen and ridiculing what has been accomplished by soldiers from this city and those a...

Black imaginations in Black geography

Soon, suggested the posts from Instituto GUETTO (acronym for Urban Management for Entrepreneurship, Work and Organized Technology) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) with their invitation to imagine: an African library, a botanical pharmacy, an architecture school, a Bla...

Say Thank You to the Black Dude Who Tackled a Judge in a Nevada Courtroom

Brown is the New Black

Texas has a cruel and demented Governor, Greg Abbott, and Attorney General, Ken Paxton (of anti-abortion fame). They not only support Trump and MAGA, but they are now supporting killing poor women and children trying to cross the Rio Grande in hopes of a life. They know they won’t be welcome h...

How We Treat Black Immigrants in America Should Matter

One in every ten Black people in America is an immigrant, and that rate is expected to increase over the next few decades. Thanks to this new wave of Black African migration, the story of Black people in America is evolving like a split pea. On one end, you have Black Americans whose ...

Black History Month (BHM) and Beyond — Transforming Symbols into Accountability

More than ever, organizations are prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) within their workplaces. In response to the global movement for racial justice in the summer of 2020, we are witnessing an increasing number of organizations building initiatives that create inclusive and equi...

Black Mixed with Black

The desire to distance one’s self from Blackness as much as possible is anti-Blackness. The belief that Blackness is inherently bad is anti-Blackness. The desire to White-wash your own history in order to not be seen as Black is anti-Blackness. I have been exotified by many and tossed aft...

White Niceness as the Enemy of Black Liberation

This is especially true of a certain brand of white people, many of us middle class and hailing from the Midwest. We pat ourselves on the back with pride for being [Your State Here] Nice. Where I grew up, in a state that is about 94% white and filled with Lutheran churches, we liked to say we’...

7 lessons to teach my black son (and any young black person)

The killing of black people over the past few weeks, has caused a stir around the world — a stir that has been needed for so many years. Political leaders, business leaders, charities, the police and every day people are now committing to do better to support black communities. It’s s...

Black Design Guild. Final Stretch

As we wind down this phase of our work, we’ve also just finished our final prototype. It focused on the role employers might play in the Guild. Throughout this work, the role that employers might play has been in constant motion. There have been discussions about whether employers should pr...

Are Black Voters Supporting A Racist Candidate?

There have been reports in the news that more Black voters than ever will be voting for Trump in the Republican primary election when it happens. Although Trump has come out with racist comments from time to time, his opponent Nikki Haley has said that the United States is not a racist country and n...

Why We Should Exercise Black Joy By Honouring Black Artists This Black History Month

Asa Black woman, I try to frequently remind myself to laugh and smile, as it is something I can easily take for granted. Whenever Black History Month comes around each February, joy is something I like to add to compliment as I listen through speeches or when reading my favourite Black History poem....

Books by Black Authors to Read for Black History Month

First and foremost, Black Lives Matter. For Black History Month, I’ve compiled this list of books, poems, and short stories to read that are all written by Black authors. For non-Black readers, and White allies such as myself, it is important to remember that we should be educating ...

A to Z: Kaleidoscope of Black Culture and Experiences: Talent Management Chief Executive, Entertainment Lawyer and Music Executive, Larkin Arnold, Jr.

On September 3, 1942, in Kansas City, a major explosion occurred at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, resulting in the deaths of 10 workers and injuring many others. The explosion was caused by a massive fire that broke out at the plant, which was producing ammunition for World War II. The explos...

A Black Administrator Committed Suicide After Being Bullied

Itwas at a historically Black university with a White President. Historically Black Colleges and Universities are known as HBCU. Lincoln University of Missouri is an HBCU. An administrator’s death by suicide was allegedly a result of her being harassed and bullied by the president of the un...

Why a Program Designed to Help Black Pregnant Women Got Axed

How does any group chip away at another group’s rights and opportunities? If history is any indication, it’s done little by little, like axing a tree piece by piece. At least, that’s the case when we consider the case of Black Americans. Over the past few years, conservatives have ...

Is ‘Colored’ an Important Distinction or Just Another Word for ‘Black’?

What makes someone “Black” or “colored” cannot be measured definitively on a color-coded scale because race is a social construct, not a genetic one. It was the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus who constructed and promoted the idea of race, portrayin...

After Discovering a New Grift, a Cynical Black British Woman Is Now Distancing Herself from Her Right-Wing, anti-Black “Past”.

Dominique Samuels is (she wants you to think was) a British black right wing pundit. She is known in the UK for going around the media denying racism exists and for demonizing her fellow black people. In fact, she is a member of the racist Turning Point UK. The Anti-Defamation League has a g...

Black Attitude

Nearly every morning from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., I head to my favorite coffee shop in Denver to write. Sometimes with our new 25-week-old Bernedoodle, Gucci, by my side. For anyone wanting to write a book, this is actually the best advice I can give. Make an appointment with yourself. Keep the a...

Black Man, Black Sense! Why Is The African Still Incapable of Managing His Own Affairs?

The delay ironically coincides with Black History Month. A month-long celebration honouring African Americans’ achievements. While this commemoration is a Western concept that originated from the Negro History Week in 1926, it increasingly resonates across Africa as we honour the accomplishmen...

How The White American Dream Has Become a Black Nightmare

My Response To Someone Who Said Writers Need To Stop Talking About The Faults Of Black People

We need to call that sh** out over and over and Black people get worse and worse. If we don’t call it out a new white supremacist will emerge, and that new white supremicist will be called a “Black Supremacist” We no gone stop until it shows in the change. Some of us writers are ju...

Black Folklore: How Jackie Robinson Changed the Course of Baseball History

In the third episode of Black Folklore, we explore the life of Jackie Robinson, the trials and tribulations he faced, and how he became one of the most influential figures in sports history. April 15th, 1947. A day that’s not recognized by many sports fans, but one that ultimately changed b...

If Bobbi Althoff Was a BLACK Girl, All Those Black Celebrities Wouldn’t Be on Her Show

Bobbi Althoff is a white Tik Tokker/YouTuber who has amassed millions of views (and probably millions of dollars). Bobbi achieved this level of success by interviewing celebrities, especially Black celebrates. Even though she has achieved this much success, Bobbi has no interviewing skill. In fac...

9 Rarest Black People In The World

Black In Session: Black History Month 2024

Barriers to the accurate teaching of U.S. history. Attacks against the very idea of diversity and efforts to include ALL people in various aspects of American life. Laws that to block our voting rights and access to the ballot box. There is an undeniable attempt keep us all divided, distracted ...

The Pathologies of the Colonized Mind: Black Passport Bros Say They Will Risk Their Lives for Access to Non-Black Women’s Bodies

A few days ago, I was listening to a live stream discussion among Passport Bros who are either currently in Colombia or had previously been there. The discussion was about being “scoped” in Colombia by Colombian girls. If you are like me and don’t know what “scoped” ...

The Black Revolution: Ignite the Flame of Social Justice

Part of my BHM article series. These articles recognize black people’s efforts and allyship with other people from marginalized communities and support from the majority population and institutions. Social justice has been an ongoing struggle that has significantly impacted history. The eme...

Black Folklore: The Secret Holocaust in Arkansas

Black American history is usually a mixed bag of experiences that are both inspiring and heartbreaking. But every once in a while, you come across a tale so terrifying that you’d think the devil himself was behind it. Deemed as the “secret holocaust” and one of Arkansas&rsq...

40 Black Kid + Family Shows on YouTube: A Parent’s Guide to Support Content Creators on #BlackOutTuesday (Revised 2022)

Today marks the 118th day since the NBA canceled the 2019–2020 season, and the day that we swiftly went into Stay Home orders. As a mom and a business owner, life for us and many other parents drastically changed. We went from a structured day of going to school and work respectiv...

White America Does Not Care About Black Education

Whenever black people bring up an injustice or hardship they face in society, white people will be quick to send their “sorry”s and condolences. But that’s it. It’s always a theatre of apologies even when they get caught in the act. But nothing ever changes. There&rsquo...

Ten Black Philosophers That Should Be Taught In Schools

On a basic level, it is what it is. You cannot do justice to philosophy and not teach western philosophy and you cannot teach western philosophy without discussing these giants in the field. This overwhelming Eurocentrism (and its accompanying androcentism) is, however, no longer acceptable in the m...

Ways to Celebrate Black History Month

One of the simplest things you can do during this month is to watch a movie or documentary about Black history. You’ll find yourself more informed about the Black experience in America over time. Want to expand this one? Invite a friend or two and make it a movie night! Choose a movie th...

Please Don’t Refer to Me as “Half” Black

Growing up as the child of an interracial and interfaith marriage in the early 1990s and 2000s, there weren’t a lot of resources available to help me navigate those dynamics. It was a time where we were still promoting “color-blind” as our best anti-racist efforts. And so at that t...

Reflections From a Token Black Friend

Iam regularly the only black kid in the photo. I have mastered the well-timed black joke, fit to induce a guilty “you thought it but couldn’t say it” laugh from my white peers. I know all the words to “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers. I am a token black friend. The bl...

Why Are Black People Always Late?

A pervasive stereotype is the idea that black people are always late. I am not interested in whether or not this is true — I am interested in why this idea arose and why it remains dominant. Animals do not lay awake at night worrying about deadlines. What we call ‘time’ is a hum...

The Power of White Gaze: Erasure of Black Signers

About five years ago, I took an evening course called “Diversity in the Deaf Community” at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. J Matt Searls, Associate Professor for Cultural and Creative Studies, proudly reminded the students that the “Deaf community belongs to the whit...

Whiteness Does Not See Itself: White Individuation vs. Universal Black Accountability

Whiteness is privileged to not have to spend a moment reflecting on itself. Whiteness doesn’t “see” whiteness. For white Americans, when one of “our own” commits racialized terrorism, we rarely think, “Oh no, look at what we white people are doing.” &ldqu...

White Lies, Black Boogeyman

During my second year of medical school, we had a weekly course on medicine and humanities. In it we tackled various social topics and how they played out in healthcare settings — ranging from caregiver burnout to sexism to domestic abuse. The class and its readings provided us with a reprieve...

Sunken Black History

Lake Lanier (named after Confederate soldier Sidney Lanier) in Forsyth County, GA, is a popular recreational spot 42 miles north of Atlanta. Beneath is what used to be a town called Oscarville, a thriving, predominantly black community until 1912. That year, two black teens were accused of r...

I Came To Bear Witness To A Race Massacre. Part 1: Black Wall St.

African civilizations have been annihilated countless times by European colonizers. Indigenous populations have suffered the fate of annihilation all around the world. In every instance in our collective world history when invaders have made contact with indigenous people, the result has always been...

“You Are A Typical Black American Woman!”

Whelp everyday, in every way Ghana or a Ghanian finds a way to insult the shit out of me, even when I am no longer in Ghana. Someone needs to expose the hatred that many in Ghana have for Black women, for Black Americans and the excuses they make for behaving badly. So, the man that said this is ...

10 Worst Black Massacres Through American History

Throughout the history of the United States, Black Americans suffered a multitude of atrocities, including widespread and brutal massacres that occurred across the country. These massacres, often fueled by racism and white supremacy, have resulted in the deaths of countless innocent Black men, women...

Inside Black Hole

When we go from R=4/3×G×M/c² in the left direction to R=0, the period of rotation significantly increases up to infinity, meaning the core of the Black Hole stops. Then friction inside the Black Hole will slow down and eventually stop the whole Black Hole. It turns ou...

There are 40 quintillion black holes in our Universe

Black holes are wondrous objects, but how many are out there? Made famous by the movie Interstellar, this depiction of a black hole seen edge-on with respect to its accretion disk in a highly-curved spacetime shows the substantial spacetime-bending power of a black hole. Close to the event ho...

There must be a singularity at each black hole’s center

The more mass you place into a small volume of space, the stronger the gravitational pull gets. According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, there’s an astrophysical limit to how dense something can get and still remain a macroscopic, three-dimensional object. Exceed that critic...

The Black Death Revisited: Lessons from the Bubonic Plague Pandemic of the Middle Ages

1. Understanding the Black Death: The Black Death is believed to have originated in the early 1330s in the plains of Central Asia. It was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which commonly infected fleas that lived on rodents like rats. This bacterium could be transmitted to humans thro...

“Black Bear: Seasons in the Wild” by Dana Johnson

Black bears’ lives are fascinatingly explored in “Black Bear: Seasons in the Wild” by Dana Johnson, which provides readers with a deep and extensive picture of the bears’ behavior, ecology, and interactions with the natural environment. Johnson’s work, which was publish...

The Black Death — Part Two

This unseen terror, claiming lives with terrifying speed, ripped through the fabric of medieval life, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Institutions that formed the bedrock of society — the Church and the feudal governments — were left stunned and helpless, like victims of a dr...

Cadavers of the poor and Black dissected without consent

White Women Are Jealous of Black Women

It’s impossible to broach the topic of envy without sounding full of yourself. It’s associated with very negative attributes about a person. We condemn people for experiencing a normal, and abundant emotion. Especially, among women. We’re not prepared to sit down and address the...

Claudine Gay and the Phenomenon of Fraud in Academia

July 2023. Claudine Gay becomes the first Black president of Harvard University. She is only the second woman to be named Harvard’s president. Just in case you aren’t familiar with the Claudine Gay drama that made the news recently, here is a very quick recap. On December...

The Real Men in Black: The Legend Behind the Men in Black

The idea that a group of men in suits would walk the streets, erasing the memory of everyone who had discovered the alien presence on Earth, is, to say the least, novel. But the legend behind the real men in black seems to be much denser and finds its origin in the conspiracy theories that, sin...

Black Balloon Day — An Annual Event to Educate the Public About a Deadly Health Threat

Black Balloon Day occurs annually on March 6. The event brings awareness to the worldwide toxic drug crisis and highlights deaths from drug overdose and substance-related harm. On this day, people pay tribute to family and friends who have died from drug poisoning and overdose. Black Balloon Day ...

The Man in Black and Rainbows

Their world is small, confined to their physical space. What they see is what they understand. They might be able to comprehend that Grandma lives five hours away by plane. But they don’t comprehend what exists between the endpoints. They understand where they are at the moment, and where they...

The Trouble of Chronic Pain

Isabel is from a family of athletes. Petite in stature with dirty blonde hair, from the outside, she seems like any other highly-motivated student at a respected liberal arts institution. She dreams of changing the world by having an impact on international conflicts and working towards world peace,...

Exploring the Origins of Black People with Blue Eyes

The enigma of Black people with blue eyes has sparked fascination for generations. In a world where brown eyes dominate among people of African descent, the appearance of blue eyes is striking, a stand out as a rare phenomenon. However, through scientific and genetic analysis, researchers have begun...

Juneteenth

Jubilee for what? For being ‘freed’ after centuries of an African Holocaust- an astounding genocide unrivaled by any other in history, and one of the most hideous iterations of humanity’s capacity for evil- only to enter a protracted period of domestic terrorism where the system...

What Makes Black Hoodies a Timeless Fashion Staple? — Up Glad

Black Hoodies: The OG of Cool Wardrobe Kickin’ it off with the real MVP of chill and style — the black hoodie. It’s the Miles Morales of your wardrobe, swinging from day to night without breaking a sweat. Whether you’re vibing to your morning playlist or cruising under cit...

A Closer Look: Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low OG “Black Phantom”

Travis Scott is no stranger to creating unique and stylish sneakers with Nike and Jordan Brand. The latest rumor of Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low OG “Phantom” a has surfaced. The new “Phantom” Travis Scott Jordan 1 is an interesting switch from its trademark earth-like colo...

JAMAICAN BLACK CASTOR OIL: BENEFITS, USES, AND EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Jamaican Black Castor Oil has gained significant attention in recent years due to its versatile applications and remarkable health benefits. Derived from 100% pure Jamaican Castor Oil, this organic, cold-pressed oil offers a myriad of advantages for skin, hair, and overall well-being. In this compre...

A Conversation About Black Hair

Don’t Touch Or Pull A Black Women’s Hair Or Else… Another person asked if my sister locs were real because black women usually have fake hair, and if you tamper with a black woman’s hair, something may come out. Though I wasn’t personally insulted by this questio...

Benefits of black gram

From kitchen herbs and spices to pulses and legumes, variety in our diet plays an important role in our overall health and well-being. One such important legume that we all know as kala chana or black gram is often used in making chana chaat. Black gram is a legume that contains nutrients like p...

How to say “black tea” in Chinese (Hint: It’s NOT “black tea”)

Black tea is the base for all kinds of tea drinks, from English breakfast tea to boba milk tea. But how do you say it in Chinese? Interestingly, black tea in Chinese is NOT 黑 (hēi) black + 茶 (chá) tea. In fact, “黑茶” (hēi chá) refers to another kind of tea en...