Opinion

Selma proves Ava DuVernay is the director we’ve all been waiting for

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Black Twitter's best moments of 2014

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If the NYPD treats the mayor this bad in public, imagine what they do to black men when no one is looking

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Why aren’t we talking about the death of Victor White III?

OPINION - At 11:22pm on March 2nd, 2014 a deputy from the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a report…
/ December 27, 2014

It's time for Africans in America to identify with African-Americans

My name is Moji Akinde, and I am an African from Nigeria. And I am American. And I am black.
/ December 26, 2014

'Selma' highlights Dr. King's forgotten supporting cast

“It is good to be present when the ordinary is trans­formed… It is good to see the commonplace illumined and
/ December 25, 2014

Bill de Blasio is wrong to pause the movement

OPINION - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is wrong to call for a moratorium on protests. De Blasio…
/ December 23, 2014

NYPD cop killings must not be allowed to derail the movement

The execution-style shooting of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn was a cold blooded, senseless murder, and we must call it
/ December 21, 2014

Woman trying to trademark 'I can't breathe' should have a seat

Eric Garner’s last words have become the slogan of a new movement. “I can’t breathe” is now everywhere. It’s a
/ December 19, 2014

Will Cuba extradite Assata Shakur to the US?

What’s next for Assata Shakur? With Havana’s humanitarian release of American Alan Gross — A USAID worker who had been imprisoned in
/ December 18, 2014

Album review: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ a welcomed return

An early holiday gift came from Michael D’Angelo Archer in the form of Black Messiah, his new album whose midnight
/ December 16, 2014

Why I chose not to march in DC

OPINION - While I applaud everyone who marched in Washington, DC, yesterday, I chose to sit this one out —…
/ December 14, 2014

Black women’s lives matter too: The forgotten victims of police killings

OPINION - Conversations on #BlackLivesMatter and the call for #MillionsMarchNYC need to translate into an overt call for Black women’s,…
/ December 14, 2014

The movement has reached the Capitol steps

On Thursday, black congressional staffers, along with other staffers of color, staged a walkout to show their solidarity with the
/ December 12, 2014

Illinois law would make recording the police a felony

In a supposedly free country, is it alright to make it a felony to film the police?  Welcome to Illinois.
/ December 10, 2014