This is consistent with the cultural logic that makes it okay in America to use brutal force when confronted by a Black villain. Thus, how can a grand jury indict Officer Darren Wilson when he was battling The Hulk?
With a TV series, film and first university course in 2017, the authors of a history of the UK movement reflect on its turnabout
Organizations to donate to, petitions to sign, and emails to send to your elected officials to support Black Lives Matter.
Race and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses the new "Black Girls Matter' report.
Regardless of their own race, students had more favorable perceptions of teachers of color, according to a new study from New York University.
We asked historians to imagine a new national monument for 21st-century America.
Janette Hoston Harris, whose arrest during a lunch counter sit-in led to her expulsion from Southern University in 1960, was being remembered for her role in the civil rights movement
"It's not profound regret," Morrison tells Fresh Air. "It's just a wiping up of tiny little messes that you didn't recognize as mess when they were going on." Her latest book is God Help the Child.
Corey Menafee had no guidebook on the revolution, no committee of peers, no consecrated elder telling him, “Go! Now is the time for breaking!” The time for breaking the stained glass at Yale was a matter of his gut, integrity, and grace.
Bronx native artist Ice Spice had the audience’s full attention after sharing that she is Nigerian and Dominican. The details came after a user on Twitter retweeted a photo of Ice Spice insinuating the Munch artist has the genetics of “Igbo” descent.
What unnerved the department was that a black woman could be placed at the center of academic inquiry, and that black women's thought was proving more engaging to this generation of students than that of European feminists or American historians. In the quest for a safe space, will my Beyoncé course be the next to go?
The cover features a host of dynamic women, such as writer/producer Shonda Rhimes, veteran journalist Joy-Ann Reid, Women’s March co-chairs Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez.
When it comes to branding, nobody has spent more time building their audience, or more time understanding them and creating a product to match. There is none of the seeming desperation of Lady Gaga or the overt reinvention of Madonna. Beyoncé's mission has been nuanced and subtle and as a result, she's at the top.
These women leaders are setting examples of what looks like in Africa and across the Diaspora.
Journalist Elizabeth Ohene argues that African identities remain in thrall to the continent's colonial past.
Barry Jenkins’s movie is a brave and brilliant work of art that also happens to be a black, gay story. What a shame if the announcement gaffe is what people remember about its victory
There is a conversation Black faculty often have with Black students that we rarely mention in public, let alone in mixed company. The tone of this exchange differs to some extent if the student are U.S. born or from the diaspora. It follows discussions that open their consciousness as they grapple with accepting an inescapable truth -- they are Black.
A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.
The stamp which features late PBS NewsHour anchor is one of about 20 new designs announced Tuesday.
Students on the University of Missouri campus have accomplished great victories in the past few days , but with their progress comes backlash. Violent threats are being made to black students via Yik Yak and reports of groups intimidating students on campus are flooding Twitter. This all comes after a threat was called in to the campus Black Culture Center during a Black Caucus meeting earlier today. https://twitter.com/bdoulaoblongata/status/664279346807312384 MORE THREATS @MIZZOU . Wtf are you going to do to protect your black students who pay to attend YOUR institution? pic.twitter.com/T9UJTYqP3B — Johnetta Elzie (@Nettaaaaaaaa) November 11, 2015 Video from speakers circle at #Mizzou just sent to me @mattdpearce pic.twitter.com/JBB0BRHun3 — Cody Mroczka (@cmroczka) November 11, 2015 Here's another video from same spot at #Mizzou @mattdpearce pic.twitter.com/fd2syvGgKq — Cody Mroczka (@cmroczka) November 11, 2015 "There were 4 whites guys walking around with white bandannas...
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
Reading The Hobbit and Lord of Rings inspired the author of Brixton Rock to take risks with language and dialogue in his own books, none more so than in his YA debut Liccle Bit and sequel Crongton Knights, where he brews up a fictional concoction of South London, US Hip-Hop , Jamaican dancehall and beyond!
By Robtel Neajai Pailey, University of Oxford
Kriston Capps on Kehinde Wiley’s new statue, “Rumors of War,” an anti-Confederate memorial recently installed in Richmond, Virginia.
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Breaking through barriers of race and gender, she pursued the beauty of pure math
Concerned petitioners ask the University of Ghana to erect statues of African heroes and heroines instead of Gandhi—who was a racist.
Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once said the most threatening thing about the Black Panthers was their free breakfast program for kids. Seriously.That didn’t stop the FBI from keeping close tabs on people like Rodney Barnette, a founding member of the Compton chapter. A Vietnam veteran, he beca...
Taken from interviews with residents of America’s poorest city, the Pulitzer-winning playwright’s Sweat has new resonance in the era of Trump and Sanders
Black in the USSR: the children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity
What went on in the mind Rachel Dolezal? A case from two decades ago with striking parallels could give us the answers, and tell us how she might react in the coming weeks.
How Do You Dismantle Black Studies in 2016?: Use Academic Terrorism
The cover features a host of dynamic women, such as writer/producer Shonda Rhimes, veteran journalist Joy-Ann Reid, Women’s March co-chairs Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez.
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Rassismus lässt sich als ein Diskriminierungsmuster und Ausdruck gesellschaftlicher Machtverhältnisse beschreiben. In modernen Gesellschaften sind es vor allem kulturelle Merkmale, über die Menschen abgewertet und ausgeschlossen werden. Das hat Auswi
Corey Menafee had no guidebook on the revolution, no committee of peers, no consecrated elder telling him, “Go! Now is the time for breaking!” The time for breaking the stained glass at Yale was a matter of his gut, integrity, and grace.
A selection of the best photos from across the continent this week.
