Angela Bassett Gets Mistaken for Omarosa & Black Twitter is Appalled
Angela Bassett looked stunning during Monday’s Emmy Awards, presenting alongside funny lady Tiffany Haddish and stealing our hearts all night. In an early ...
Entertainment
Michelle Alexander Named New York Times Columnist, Only Black Woman in Role
Author Michelle Alexander has joined the New York Times’ Opinion pages, the paper announced in a press release on Thursday. Alexander penned The New ...
Black Listed
The Racist Work of a New York Times Writer
Today the New York Times announced its selection of 20 new op-ed writers who will contribute to the paper on a monthly basis. ...
Black Listed
Charles Blow Opens Up about His Sexuality
In his upcoming memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, New York Times columnist Charles Blow shares that he is attracted to both ...
Black Listed
What The New York Times Gets Wrong About Affirmative Action
This year’s Supreme Court docket could dramatically alter racial policy in America, with cases that could invalidate two key achievements of the civil ...
7 Young Black Writers You Should Know
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” The outstanding writers selected for this list have ...
Books
IMMIGRANTS AT HOME:Isabel Wilkerson Explores the Great Migration
Growing up in Washington, D.C., after her parents fled the Jim Crow South, Isabel Wilkerson felt like she was raised as the daughter ...
News
Campbell Brown’s ‘Takedown’ of Obama:Bias AND Bull
Campbell Brown should have kicked off her President Obama-bashing op-ed in the New York Times with the statement she buried nearly at the ...
Entertainment
My ‘Streetcar’ Has Always Been Black
As an undergraduate theatre major in the 1970s with an interest in acting, I did not get to play Stanley Kowalski. It was ...
