Black Excellence
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Mellody Hobson's Name Will Replace Woodrow Wilson's on Residential Building at Princeton, the First to Be Named for a Black Woman
Philanthropist and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson, has gifted her alma mater Princeton University with a major donation to construct a new residential college on the site of one previously named after Woodrow Wilson. This summer, the school’s Board of Trustees voted to remove Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs…
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MacArthur Foundation Names New 'Geniuses'; 12 of This Year's 21 Fellows Are Black
Why are geniuses always evil? …And white? Comic book superheroes are always strong, righteous champions for truth and justice who battle immoral but creative supervillains who are usually so smart that we often refer to them as “evil geniuses.” Lex Luther was a scientist and a business magnate whose alopecia led him to a life…
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Jesse Collins Becomes 1st Black Producer of Super Bowl Halftime Show
Over the course of his prestigious career, Jesse Collins has played an integral role in producing some of the most memorable moments in television history. From Love & Happiness: An Obama Farewell to John Lewis: Celebrating A Hero, to the BET Awards, Soul Train Awards and the Grammys, Jesse Collins Entertainment is one of the…
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Megan Thee Stallion, the Founders of Black Lives Matter and More Top Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020
They’re activists, artists, athletes, entertainers, entrepreneurs, leaders, and above all else, influencers. ‘Tis the season when we begin to reflect on those who’ve had the greatest impact upon our collective culture in the past year—and as 2020 has been a year unlike any other, this year’s influencers are equally remarkable. On Tuesday night, Time magazine…
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New Jersey Sends a Black Woman to the State Supreme Court for First Time In Its History
Oh, how I love seeing Black people—especially Black women—in positions of power. For the first time in the state’s history, New Jersey is sending a Black woman to serve as a state Supreme Court justice after the state Senate unanimously confirmed her nomination Thursday. USA Today reports that Fabiana Pierre-Louis will not only be the…
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'Those Not Real People': Master P Pushes New Food Brand Aimed at Replacing Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben
Man, you gotta love Percy Miller. The man who gave us No Limit Records in the mid-late ’90s, kept us entertained with club-bangers and hood-flicks through the early 2000s and has never stopped being a shining example of relentless hustle and God-tier Black entrepreneurship, is now promoting a new food brand to replace recently ditched…
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Amazing Artists From Africa I Learned About From Watching Africans Celebrate Them In Beyoncé's Black Is King
I love Beyoncé. But more importantly, I really love when members of the global Black diaspora connect with each other. It brings me joy to listen to Afrobeat, the genre that dominates the soundtrack for The Lion King which turned into the visual album Black Is King that Beyoncé released on Friday. I remember the…
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Tracee Ellis Ross Partners With Nonprofit PushBlack to Uplift Black Stories
These days (well, every day if you’re really about that life), the M.O. is to uplift Black people, our stories and our accomplishments. Via Instagram last weekend, actress and entrepreneur Tracee Ellis Ross announced her new partnership with the nonprofit PushBlack in order to highlight outstanding Black people throughout history each and every day. On…
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Ex-Lawyer Launches the 1st Black-Owned Stock Exchange in U.S. History
When we talk about white privilege and systemic racism, one thing that always comes up is generational wealth. It’s a thing white people disproportionately benefit from and a thing that is virtually nonexistent for Black people, as history has shown us far more instances of Black wealth being sabotaged (*cough* Black Wall Street *cough*) than…
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Just Don't Forget That Black Pain Isn't All We Have
I don’t know exactly when I decided to stop writing about whiteness and focus purely on blackness. What I do know is that for the past few years I specifically made a decision to write about the celebration of blackness and black culture and whatever comes with it. No more writing about black trauma and…