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The Wonder of Wakanda: How This Black Utopian Space Is a Game Changer for Artists and Audiences
On a rainy Friday afternoon in January, rivulets of black comic fans trickled through the halls of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The occasion was the annual Black Comic Book Festival—an event that draws thousands of comic enthusiasts, creators, publishers and collectors. Black Panther tickets had just gone on sale days before,…
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There’s a Reason a TV Station Mixed Up P.F. Chang’s and Pyeongchang—and It’s Predictably Trash
Asian Americans are killing it at the Olympic Games so far, which would be a great story for one Chicago-area news station to cover—if it could just remember where the hell the Olympics were happening. Hint: It’s not gotdamn P.F. Chang’s. Now, before you hit me with Anne, no one is seriously mixing up P.F.…
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PTA in NYC Catches Heat for Using Blackface Photo for Fundraiser Message in the Year of Our Lord 2018
The Facebook post seemed innocuous enough. The parent-teacher association for Public School 118, The Maurice Sendak Community School, in Brooklyn, N.Y., had settled on a theme for its fundraiser: “Speakeasy.” The announcement, posted in January, came with an image broadcasting the date of the event and some 1920s Prohibition-era photos for the themed event. The…
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Black NYPD Commanding Officer Accused of Celebrating ‘Hate Group’ After #BlackLivesMatter Tweet
A black New York City Police Department commander is receiving sharp criticism from other law enforcement officers after her police precinct’s account tweeted out the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on Friday. According to the New York Daily News, Deputy Inspector Janice Holmes, who commands the NYPD’s 100th Precinct in the city’s Queens borough, is facing backlash from…
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NYC Investigates Principal Who Barred Black History Month Lessons From Being Taught at Her Middle School: Report
The New York City Department of Education is investigating a white middle school principal in the city’s Bronx borough for racially hostile actions against staff and students of color. The most incendiary charge: that Principal Patricia Catania barred Black History Month lessons from being taught to the students of Intermediate School 224—95 percent of whom…
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Sources, Documents Produce a Shocking Story About Dennis Edwards
Time on Music Beat Led Writers to Abuse Charges Writer Says Sports ‘Rioting’ Brings Races Together Media Come Prepared for Black History Month Don Carson Dies, Diversity Leader at U. of Arizona Anticipation Builds for ‘Black Panther’ Movie Actresses of Color Say Gatekeeper Preyed on Them L.A. Times Sold to Asian American Billionaire A ‘First’…
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Color Me Surprised: Someone Was Actually Arrested During That Philly Super Bowl Celebration
Don’t look now, but it looks like raucous, white sports fans just trying to have a good time by destroying property actually can get arrested. WPVI-TV Philadelphia reports that police have arrested a 20-year-old man on charges he damaged a Nissan Rogue SUV that was flipped over during the over-the-top and destructive celebrations in the…
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How Last Year’s Hurricane Season May Have Decimated the Virgin Islands’ Middle Class: Report
Back-to-back strikes from two major hurricanes last year, Irma and Maria, have undone years of economic and social growth in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a new report from the Washington Post finds. The storms have so thoroughly disrupted the islands’ economy, education and health systems that “a generation of Virgin Islanders” may have been “blown…
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Attorneys for Bullied Gay Teen Want Manslaughter Charges Dismissed After Cellphone Video of Attack Emerges
The video is grainy, and it’s difficult, at first viewing, to tell what exactly is happening. But the crucial nine seconds it catches—of three teens engaged in a disruptive fistfight—is enough, defense attorneys say, to get manslaughter charges against their client Abel Cedeno dropped. Cedeno made headlines last year after stabbing two classmates, Matthew McCree…
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The Loving Generation Explores the Lives of Biracial Children Born After Mixed-Race Marriages Were Legalized
When you meet someone who identifies as biracial, what do you see? An imposter? A person in denial? A person who wants to acknowledge every part of themselves? Someone who wants to name a very specific experience? Or someone longing to place themselves adjacent to whiteness? A new digital documentary series on Topic, The Loving…
