Injustice – Black Family Stopped for Tinted Windows And Kids Taken In Georgia On Feb 17, the parents were driving to a funeral in Chicago when Highway Patrol officers in rural Coffee County, Tennessee, pulled them over. Apparently, they had “dark tint[ed windows] and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing,” according to Read More…
NYESHA STONE, THE 26-YEAR-OLD FOUNDER OF CARVD N STONE SHARES WHAT INSPIRED HER JOURNEY TO CREATE A MEDIA COMPANY FOCUSED ON TELLING POSITIVE STORIES ABOUT BLACK COMMUNITIES. For Nyesha00 Stone, meeting a Black newspaper editor during her sophomore year of college in 2016 changed her life. And set her on a path to start her own Read More…
The Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At an intimate open house session, they Read More…
The efficacy and equity of gifted programs came under fire in 2021 when New York City mayor Bill De Blasio rolled out a plan to phase out the city’s gifted program completely—a plan that was later quietly shelved. Parents who perhaps were in gifted programs themselves as kids and whose own kids do or do Read More…
12-Year-Old Youngest Black College Student in Oklahoma Nationwide — At the age of 12, Elijah Muhammad has become a freshman at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) making history as the youngest Black college student in the entire state of Oklahoma. Elijah, who is being homeschooled as a high school senior, is simultaneously majoring in cyber security Read More…
The Real Warriors Behind ‘The Woman King’ A new film stars Viola Davis as the leader of the Agojie, the all-woman army of the African kingdom of Dahomey The Woman King tells the story of the Agojie, an elite, all-woman army in the West African kingdom of Dahomey. Photo by Chris Hellier / Corbis via Getty Read More…
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