culture
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Marchers Protesting Michael Brown Shooting Block Atlanta Highway
Protesters obstructed traffic along Atlanta’s Downtown Connector—a section of Interstate Highways 75 and 85—Wednesday evening in support for Michael Brown as the black community continues to demand answers in the Aug. 9 shooting of the unarmed black teen by a white Ferguson police officer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Atlanta police spokesman Officer John Chafee told…
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NYPD Officer’s Account of Bronx Man’s Arrest Contradicted by Video
A Bronx man is planning to sue New York City after video obtained by the New York Daily News seemingly corroborates his version of what happened the night of his arrest on April 1. According to the Daily News report, 21-year-old Raymond Romero claims that New York City police officers mistook him for a robber and…
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Last Night’s Black-ish Whupping Episode Was Genius—Too Bad It Didn’t Air a Month Ago
The jury’s still out on whether ABC sitcom Black-ish has what it takes to ultimately break into the pantheon of all-time-great black televison shows. I love the show, but I’m not sure it’ll be able to keep up the pace it’s on now over multiple seasons. And while Wednesday night’s episode about the parental dilemma around…
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Craigslist Ad: Cool Black Kids Wanted to Hang Out With Bullied Son
A parent who posted a Craigslist New Orleans ad is looking for “cool black kids” to befriend the poster’s bullied son, reports Jezebel. According to the parent, his or her son is experiencing intense bullying, and the parent muses that perhaps if “cool black kids” were to hang out with that son, the bullying would stop. The…
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Family: Dallas Nurse Amber Vinson Is Ebola-Free
Dallas nurse Amber Vinson has been declared free of the deadly Ebola virus, her family announced, according to the Washington Post. Vinson, who contracted the disease while treating now-deceased patient Thomas Eric Duncan, was being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being transferred from Dallas. On Tuesday night, Centers for Disease Control and…
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Los Angeles Boy, 7, Dies After Being Run Over by Ice-Cream Truck
One grieving family in Los Angeles is demanding answers after a 7-year-old boy was fatally run over by an ice-cream truck Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Times reports. Jamarion Thomas of South L.A. was run over a little after 7 p.m., and the incident incited an angry crowd who went after the driver, throwing bricks…
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Substitute Teacher Arrested After Reportedly Having Sex With Student on Her 1st Day
A substitute teacher has been charged with first-degree sexual assault against a minor after she reportedly had oral sex with a 17-year-old high school student on her first day at the job. According to police, Symone Greene, who taught an English class at Options Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., performed oral sex on the…
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2nd Man Accused of Jumping White House Fence Has Mental Issues, Father Says
The White House was put on lockdown Wednesday after a man scaled the north fence. The jumper was quickly apprehended after a K-9 unit caught him shortly after he made it onto the ground. According to ABC News, at 7:16 p.m., Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Md., was spotted on the North Lawn and…
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Cuba and the US Hug It Out Over Responses to Ebola
Who could have known that it would take an Ebola outbreak in West Africa for Cuba and the U.S. to pat each other on the back about something? Here’s how it happened: First, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry singled out Cuba on Friday as one of the nations that are “stepping up in impressive ways…
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Black Art Lovers, London Is the Place to Be Right Now
To coincide with both Black History Month in the United Kingdom and the internationally renowned Frieze art fair, there are a staggering seven exhibitions by black artists—plus a historical-archive showcase presenting formerly unseen photographs of black people in Victorian Britain—currently showing in London. Previously unthinkable in what was once a notoriously conservative, painfully homogeneous and…