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  • LIVE: Town Hall on Faith and Justice at Social Justice Institute: Poverty, Race and Sexuality in Boston

    As part of a Social Justice Institute on Poverty, Race and Sexuality, a town hall on faith and justice is under way at Boston University Thursday evening. The event honors the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. According to the Rev. Keith Magee, who organized the event, the town hall features…

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  • Black Director Calls Out Netflix for Grouping Her Romantic Film With Only ‘Black’ Movies

    Gina Prince-Bythewood, the director who brought us Love & Basketball, feels like she’s experienced firsthand the rules that Hollywood decision-makers live by when deciding what kind of people will watch certain films.  Those decision-makers also include online distribution engines like Netflix.  Prince-Bythewood was on Netflix, and in the “more like this” section related to her 2014 film,…

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  • Black Women Have Fun With #ILookLikeAnEngineer Hashtag to Declare ‘We Exist!’

    “Yeah, you’re hearing that right.” That about sums up the response women—especially black women—often have to give whenever people express shock to find out that they’re engineers. So it makes sense that the #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag on Twitter went viral. Female engineers have been posting photos of themselves to discredit the idea that all engineers are…

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  • Power Couple Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil Take Their Talents to Warner Bros. TV 

    These two are unstoppable. Mara Brock Akil and her husband, Salim Akil, are the creative forces (Mara writes the content and Salim shoots ’em) behind some of the best TV ever to feature African-American characters and experiences: Girlfriends, The Game and Being Mary Jane. Those shows have attracted millions of viewers, so it’s only natural that the…

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  • The Courageous 5 Who Made History in Selma

    In 1972, seven years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, abolishing tools and tactics used to disenfranchise Southern black citizens, Selma, Ala.—the crucible of the civil rights movement—elected its first black City Council members since Reconstruction. A huge voter turnout and a shift to district elections in the city where people…

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  • On Its 50th Anniversary, the Voting Rights Act Is Under Full-Blown Attack

    The national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act takes place against the backdrop of a devastating full-scale assault on the civil rights movement’s signature legislation. For African Americans, the passage of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, represented the culmination of a centuries-long struggle for citizenship. President Lyndon Johnson’s…

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  • The Voting Rights Act Is 50 Years Old Today. Is It on the Agenda for the Republican Debate?

    Tonight’s first Republican presidential debate for the 2016 election falls on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Will the Grand Old Party’s candidates blow yet another shot to embrace one of the most popular laws of our time? Every four years we see a new media cycle about the Republican National Committee’s efforts to…

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  • Why I Kept Open an Exhibit Featuring Art Owned by Bill Cosby

    I first met Bill and Camille Cosby in the 1970s when I was a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My professional and personal relationship with them deepened when, at my inauguration as the president of Spelman College, the Cosbys donated $20 million to that historically black college for women, a gift that helped…

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  • More Riley Curry Cuteness: Riley Kisses New Baby Sister Ryan

    It seems that we can always count on the Curry family to brighten up our day, especially when their 3-year-old daughter, Riley Curry, is involved. NBA champion Stephen Curry posted a couple of photos on his Instagram page that show the latest addition to his family: a new baby girl by the name of Ryan…

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  • The National Enquirer Publishes a Photo of Bobbi Kristina Brown Lying in Her Hospital Bed

    How inappropriate. On Wednesday the National Enquirer published a photo on its website of Bobbi Kristina Brown lying in a hospital bed. They say it was taken right before she died July 26. The Enquirer claims to have additional photos of a deceased Brown that readers can access if they buy the latest issue of the…

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