Why I don’t understand the black affluent class
The black middle class is talking of values and civility as many Americans of colour continue to languish in poverty.…
Summer Reading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience
By: IBRAM X. KENDI June 11th 2018 https://www.aaihs.org/black-perspectives/ With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new…
Study shows hair care products targeted to black community contain harmful chemicals
Living on Earth June 18, 2018 · 3:15 PM EDT By Stephan Schmidt Certain hair products — many of which…
Why the extraordinary story of the last slave in America has finally come to light
Oluale Kossola was taken from the Yoruba kingdom of Takkoi to Alabama in the 19th century. Photograph: Courtesy of McGill…
It’s Time for Police to Start Snitching
Communities of color are actually disproportionately likely to report crimes—it’s police themselves who have maintained a corrosive culture of silence.…
Brittney Cooper Being a black woman in America means realizing that doing everything right may not be enough
The gospel of neoliberalism is a gospel of choices. But for black Americans — especially black women — this gospel…
Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance
By SAM LEVIN Exclusive: Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted…
Melanin Under Attack: Study Shows How Toxic Hair Products Are To Black Women
Black women have higher rates of hormone-mediated problems including pre-term birth, uterine fibroids and infertility. Written By Clarissa Hamlin Melanated…
Black prisoners more likely to be put in solitary, even as overall use declines
By Keri Blakinger Sunday, April 22, 2018 At the end of the 2008 fiscal year, 17.7 of the prisoners in…
New York statue of the Dr. (monster) who experimented on black women will be removed
By Ameena Walker Apr 16, 2018, 4:32pm EDT Following recommendations from the commitee appointed to conduct a 90-day review of…