post Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz Has Earned Your Attention | GQ The star of Atlanta and newcomer to Deadpool 2 talks to GQ about her killer year (and all the anxieties that come with it).African American Cinema African American Entertainment African American Film KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineApril 26, 2018
post D.C. Kicks Off Summer Crime Initiative | The Washington Informer Every year, for nearly 10 years, the Metropolitan Police Department has identified five to six focus areas that have experienced a high density of violence and utilized all available resources, including collaborative outreach, to prevent violent crime in those areas during the summer months.African American Commuities African American History African American News Crime Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Reform KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineApril 26, 2018
post A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. | The New York Times The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.African American Commuities African American Families African American History Black History KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN Magazine Lynchings Race RacismApril 26, 2018April 26, 2018
post Memories of FGM: ‘I was screaming in pain and fear’ | Al Jazeera Assita Kanko, a politician in Brussels, recalls when she underwent female genital mutilation as a child in Burkina Faso.African Culture African Female Abuse African Women KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineApril 26, 2018
post The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014) Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.African American History African American News African History Black History KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN Magazine ReparationsApril 25, 2018April 25, 2018
post Google.org Matches Beyonce’s $100,000 Scholarship Donation to HBCU Students | The Network Journal The 22-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter launched the Formation Scholars awards, through BeyGOOD, her charitable arm, last year when she awarded four students from Howard University, Parsons School of Design, Berklee College of Music and Spelman College $25,000...African American Education African American News HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineApril 25, 2018April 25, 2018
post New York Governor Restores Voting Rights to Parolees | Colorlines An estimated 35,000 residents, overwhelmingly Black and Latinx, stand to benefit from Andrew Cuomo’s executive order.African American News African American Politics Black Politics Black Vote KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN Magazine Politics Voter Suppression VotingApril 25, 2018April 25, 2018
post Fifty years later, Fair Housing Act recognized as a factor in fighting housing discrimination | New York Amsterdam News “Dr. King had been a strong supporter of the Fair Housing Act, openly pushing for it in Chicago in 1967...”African American Commuities African American History African American News African American PoliticsApril 25, 2018April 25, 2018
post When a white conductor tried to manhandle Ida B. Wells, she took a bite out of his hand | Timeline It was a daring act of self-defense at a time when blacks were being lynched for merely existingAfrican American Activist African American History African American News Black History KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineApril 24, 2018
post First Black U.S. Rolls Royce Dealer Talks Success from the Bottom Up | Ebony Thomas Moorehead could have been a Ph.D., but chose to take a chance and go into the car sales business -- and it proved to be more than the right choice#BuyBlack African American Entrepreneurs African American News KINDR'D KINDR'D Magazine KOLUMN KOLUMN MagazineApril 24, 2018