Source: Catalin-Ilie Capilnean / Getty If you want to piss conservatives off, you don’t accuse them of racism outright. You show how they’ve laundered power through policy language so cleanly and deviously, they can look you right in the face and say, “We didn’t do anything racist.” This is what just happened at the University […]
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Source: – / Getty Since tensions with Iran escalated into war in recent weeks, a wave of viral posts has spread across social media claiming that Iran has signaled Black Americans would not be targeted in a potential conflict with the United States. The posts vary in tone but follow a similar pattern. Some present […]
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Source: Leigh Vogel / Getty Last week’s debate over the Target boycott quickly turned into something bigger than a dispute about where people shop. When Rev. Jamal Bryant announced that the fast and boycott were over, thousands of Black consumers responded online that no single pastor had the authority to make that call. The backlash […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty Donald Trump has now escalated his demand that Congress pass the SAVE Act by threatening to refuse to sign other legislation until it is enacted. The bill would require voters to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, in order to register to […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Somewhere in the afterlife, the ancestors are sitting at a long mahogany table. Harriet Tubman has her arms folded like she already knows this meeting is about to be stupid. Frederick Douglass is rubbing his temples the way you do when you realize you escaped slavery just for people to still […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty “Black People Are Not Apes.” That sentence should not be necessary in 2026. During Black History Month. It should not need to be printed, displayed, or defended inside the United States Capitol. And yet, there it was, elevated as a form of protest during last night’s State of the Union. […]
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Source: It’s still Black History Month, y’all. Which means we should be listening to our ancestors instead of white noise. Maya Angelou told us, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” John Davidson showed us who he was at the BAFTA Film Awards when he hurled the N-word, not once […]
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Source: Stuart Wilson/BAFTA / Getty Sometimes the most dangerous thing in the room isn’t the racist slur. It’s the audacity to tell Black folks we didn’t hear what we heard, and to demand that we understand it before we’re allowed to feel it. At this year’s BAFTA Awards, that dynamic detonated in plain sight when […]
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Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Have y’all ever heard of Al Jolson? He was that early-20th-century Broadway star and Hollywood entertainer who built an empire smearing burnt cork on his face and singing in blackface about “Mammy.” He was the voice behind The Jazz Singer, the first major talking picture. Under hot stage lights, he […]
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Source: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was the architect of modern multiracial progressive politics, the man who stretched the boundaries of who America could see as presidential, and one of the last living bridges between the Civil Rights Movement and the political world we are […]
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Source: USGirl / Getty America has gotten so committed to laundering its conscience that even the word Black in Black History is now being handled like contraband, even in institutions that were literally built to preserve it. Which brings us to Florida A&M (FAMU). Last week, FAMU found itself in the surreal position of having […]
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