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More Than 3/5: Stacey Abrams' Nonprofit Wants to Make Sure Black Men Aren't Left Out of the 2020 Census
“In Georgia alone, 67,000 black men are estimated to be undercounted....That funding is not lost from the federal government—the federal government just keeps that money. That just means that money goes to another community or another state or another city or another county.” — Ed Reed, Program Director, Fair Count text When it comes to…
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They Need Us: MSNBC’s Trymaine Lee on Black Journalists and Holding America to Its Ideals
“They need us. They need us as black journalists. They need us as journalists. They need us to push and push to tell the truth, because as we know, there are powers and influences in this country that would rather the truth not be told.” —Trymaine Lee, MSNBC correspondent text Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning…
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Locked in the House (Like the Rest of Us)? Here Are Five Ways to Stay Civically Engaged
“Now, more than ever, your leadership is so necessary. Do not abandon your responsibilities and your role to be a leader in your community, just because we’re in the house. It just requires us to pivot and use different tools and resources to then move our community forward.” —Tiffany D. Loftin, director of the NAACP…
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The 'Forgotten Population': Yusef Salaam Speaks Out About COVID-19 and the Prison Industrial Complex
“There’s going to be a more serious health crisis as it relates to the prison industrial complex and a prison population. Whatever we are seeing in the world is going to be times ten—it’s going to be magnified in the prison industrial complex.” —Yusef Salaam, Ph.D. text In the state of New York alone, there…
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The 2020 Census Is Critical for Black People. Here's Why We Need to 'Make Black Count'
“People are aware of the power of the numbers and they also are aware that this country is with every tick of the clock, is becoming browner and browner. So there’s this death grip really on the status quo and the whiteness of America that is fading and disappearing with every tick up the clock.”…
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Madam C.J. Walker, the Activist: A'Lelia Bundles Shares a Little-Told Story of Her Great-Great-Grandmother
“Activism is a very little-told story of Madam Walker’s life. She [Madam C.J. Walker] knew when she created hair care products that women needed some solutions for the infections—the scalp infections—but she knew that they needed, even more, education and financial independence.”—A’Lelia Bundles text It’s fairly well known that Madam C.J. Walker was the nation’s…
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Your Racism Is Showing: Coronavirus and the Racist History of Pandemics
“There are some members of the Trump administration who continue to refer to [COVID-19] as the ‘Wuhan virus,’ and I think this continues to perpetuate this very strong link between Asian people more generally or Chinese people more generally and the virus itself…And this tendency to kind of shift it, to reduce it to this…
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Self Made and Snatching Wigs: How Netflix's Madam C.J. Walker-Inspired Series Authentically Styled Black Hair on Set
She did everything with the products that would have been available to Madam. She didn’t use hot combs, when she rolled the hair it would be with a paper bag or with cloth. So she was very innovative in how she styled me. — Octavia Spencer text Madam C.J. Walker is a history-making black woman.…
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ABFF Honors 2020: The House That Black Hollywood Built
The “category” was excellence, and Black Hollywood showed up and showed out. On Sunday night, the Beverly Hilton was bustling with black actors—I like to call them blacktors—producers and press gathered for the ABFF Honors, a space that Black Hollywood built to recognize our excellence in film and television. (After all, if we don’t, who…
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Luke's Game of Love: Watch Musician Luke James Talk Love, Sex and Attraction
First things first: don’t call singer-songwriter Luke James a thirst trap. “I honestly think I’m a goofball and people don’t know that about me. I play it well.” The Grammy-nominated singer continued, “I’m not doing anything on purpose. It’s all in your head. If I’m a thirst trap, it’s all in your head.” OK, okay.…
