Category: Race

By ICE CUBE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — This morning, Ice Cube released a video titled “What’s In It For Us” demanding politicians sign the Contract with Black America before they get the support of the Black vote: As citizens and lawmakers both, we are joining to demand the Contract with Black America be addressed immediately to finally create the […]

By Pharrell Williams w/ Michael Harriot, TIME  AUGUST 20, 2020 6:23 AM EDT Pharrell Williams is a highly acclaimed multihyphenate singer, producer and entrepreneur who has won 13 Grammy Awards as both a producer and vocalist. Williams has also curated art exhibits, co-produced the film Hidden Figures and served as a coach on the NBC singing competition The Voice. […]

By Michael Harriot, The Root I knew it would happen. For too long, white America has pleaded with officials to hold someone accountable for the disproportionate violence inflicted upon the unarmed victims of state-sponsored brutality. This is the culmination of years of Caucasian protest, activism and advocacy. White people have finally put their money where […]

By EJI Staff, EJI On August 15, 1963, thirty-two teenage protestors, who challenged the Prince Edward County School Board’s refusal to integrate their public school system and had been arrested, were released from jail. Over the prior three weeks, the students had staged two separate demonstrations in Farmville, Virginia. When released to the custody of their parents, they were ordered […]

The hashtag #FreeTianna and a petition have gone viral. By Paul Meara, BET Social media is coming to the aid of Tianna Arata, a California-based Black Lives Matter organizer, who was arrested after a protest last month and is now facing some serious charges. Arata was arrested by the San Luis Obispo police department on July […]

By Aurora Archer, Philadelphia Inquirer Recently, a colleague — Troy, a Black emerging entrepreneur — asked me to work as his adviser for a new product launch. We’d met several years prior when he was a corporate newcomer and I was leading a business team at a Fortune 100 Tech company. He recalled that I […]

As an Indian man, D’Souza has the privilege of appealing to white conservatives by being the minority in the room willing to attack Black people. By Scaachi Koul, BuzzFeed Whenever white people do something terrible — I could give you an example or you could just Google “Karen” and save me the trouble — I often […]

By Harrison Smith, The Washington Post A day before the Senate voted to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mimi Jones joined six other civil rights activists in leaping into a Whites-only motel pool in St. Augustine, Fla. Moments later, the motel’s manager emerged with a jug of muriatic acid, a cleaning agent, and […]

Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. By John Lewis – Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral. Editorial […]

By Hayley Miller ,HuffPost On June10, 1954, governors and representatives from twelve Southern states met in Richmond, Virginia, and resolved to defiantly resist the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.Released less than a month earlier, the Brown decision struck down racial segregation laws — prevalent in the South — that required separate public schools for Black and […]