Raven Symone “I’m Not African American”
If you care to read my words. Here they are. I enjoy being open and honest in my social media networks because I trust the people I know will have respectful discourse, while learning new things about...
View ArticleCharlamagne is a self-hating racist troll who hates Black women
This scene from the recent episode of “How to Get Away with Murder” will go down in television HISTORY. In case you missed it, Annalise Keating, played by Viola Davis, discovered a picture of her...
View ArticleMaking Hair a Rite of Passage
In the most simplistic terms, a rite of passage is an event that marks one’s transition from one status or life course, to the next. For many societies a rite of passage involves many rituals, some...
View ArticleSlave Patrols: A Look at the Origins of the American Police Force
“The real danger comes from highly organized Establishment forces – the local police, the National Guard, and the United States military…It is the uniformed men who are dangerous and who come into our...
View ArticleOwnership of Black Women’s Bodies: What Can Be Gauged by The Response to...
Body politics Body politics involves a power struggle, where entities compete for individual and social control over a body. This includes political debates over issues such as a woman’s right to...
View ArticleMizzou has a history of stalled race initiatives
COLUMBIA, Mo. • No one would mistake 1960s-era Mizzou for the University of Missouri-Columbia of 2015. Black students are free to live where they please and use all of the facilities on campus, and...
View ArticleFrom Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn’t Care About Arab Lives
When a friend told me past midnight to check the news about Paris, I had no idea that I would be looking at a map of a city I love, delineating locations undergoing terrorist attacks simultaneously. I...
View ArticleFacebook gets flak for Beirut-Paris ‘double standard’
Facebook’s decision to implement its “safety check” feature for the attacks in Paris, but not after bomb blasts in Beirut a day earlier, has prompted debate online. Critics of the site accused it of...
View ArticleChange Your Channel | Mallence Bart-Williams | TEDxBerlinSalon
“One thing that keeps me puzzled despite having studied finance and world economics at the world’s best universities, the following question remains unanswered: Why is it that 5000 units of our...
View ArticleHBCU Alumnus talk to Buzzfeed about their college experience
Historically Black Colleges and Universities play a very important role in the Black community in this nation’s history. But as state funding for all institutions of higher education continues to...
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