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  • Watch: This Lauryn Hill Miss Piggy Mashup Is Must-See

    Video mashups are the funniest—especially when they put together beloved but not necessarily obvious pairings. Such is the case with the Lauryn Hill-Miss Piggy mashup of “Doo Wop (That Thing),” one of numerous hits from Hill’s 1998 critically acclaimed set, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. In the short, Miss Piggy is Hill, and lip-synchs old…

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  • Kalief Browder’s Mother Laid to Rest in NYC

    About 100 mourners gathered to honor 63-year-old Venida Browder’s life on Saturday in the Bronx, N.Y., according to the New York Daily News. Browder died after a series of heart attacks on Oct. 14. Browder was the mother of the late Kalief Browder, the young New York City man who committed suicide about a year…

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  • Petition Started to Include Clarence Thomas in National African American Museum

    This month marks the 25th anniversary of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ arrival on the nation’s highest court. But the only mention of him that the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has is in reference to Anita Hill’s testimony against him regarding sexual harassment during his confirmation…

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  • Where Are All the Black Atheists?

    I am black. I am also an atheist. It’s understandable if that surprises you. You’ve probably heard that the number of religiously unaffiliated people is rising. According to the Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study, the percentage of Americans who identify as “unaffiliated,” or “religious nones,” is currently 22.8 percent. That’s a huge increase from…

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  • Kehinde Wiley’s Stained Glass Windows in Paris Are Ah-Mazing

    Visual artist Kehinde Wiley continues to share his incredibly rich and strikingly relevant art with the world. Wiley’s first solo art exhibition in France will be displayed in Le Petit Palais in Paris from Oct. 20 through Jan. 15. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154504843345535&set=a.10151251441415535.506914.540120534&type=3&theater Afropunk notes that the exhibition is a unique set of 10 monumental works, stained glass…

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  • Watch: Attorney General Loretta Lynch Discusses Federal Election Monitors for 2016 Race

    In a climate where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has asked his supporters to “monitor” elections and has repeatedly called the system “rigged,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch this week released a video discussing this year’s elections and how the federal government will play a part in monitoring them. Considering that this is the first presidential contest…

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  • Is Kanye and Jay Z’s Beef Really Over Money?

    “The Throne” is no more. And rather than Jay Z being an inconsiderate friend, it may have more to do with business than anything else. Kanye West went on a rant against his former collaborator Jay Z during the Seattle stop on his The Life of Pablo Tour on Wednesday night. Plenty of fans uploaded…

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  • Watch: Black Anthem Singer Takes Knee at NBA Game

    Yet another citizen has protested police brutality and racial oppression in the sports arena. A black woman performing the national anthem prior to an NBA preseason game in Miami knelt as she sang. Before dropping to her knee to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Denasia Lawrence opened her jacket to reveal a “Black Lives Matter” shirt.…

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  • History Repeats Itself: The Dangers of Erasing Women From the Movement

    Vanity Fair recently released its annual “New Establishment” list to coincide with its third-annual New Establishment Summit. Nestled between Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and three Snapchat stars was a photo of DeRay Mckesson, accompanied by this text: Crowning Achievement: Transforming a Twitter hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, into a sustained, multi-year, national movement calling for the end of…

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  • #WeBuiltThis: Black People Built America, and America Won’t Stop Killing Us

    If you’re black, enfranchised and under 35, you’ve probably caught hell from at least a dozen people about your civic duty to vote. (Something about your ancestors bleeding and dying for your right to vote, and how folks your age should be galloping to the polls. It’s like your civic duty to stand for the…

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