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Honoring Excellence and Diversity on K Street
The Washington Government Relations Group, the nation’s oldest organization for African-American government-relations professionals, honored leaders in the government-affairs community at its fifth annual Tin Cup Awards Dinner at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 30. Award recipients included Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), the Congressional Black Caucus, Roland Martin of…
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Black Mothers Under Siege
If you didn’t know any better, you might think, based on a flood of recent headlines about parenting-related arrests, that all black women are unfit mothers. But the truth is, many of the women at the center of these stories were simply between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Some observers have gone so…
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Black and Unarmed: Men Without Weapons Killed by Law Enforcement
Michael Brown, 18, was on his way to his grandmother’s house in Ferguson, Mo.—a surburb just outside of St. Louis — on August 9, 2014 when a series of events would claim his life. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, some reports indicate that Brown and the police officer who’s accused of shooting him engaged in an initial struggle…
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The Do the Right Thing Cast: Where Are They Now?
Believe it or not, it has been 25 years since we met Mookie, Sal, Da Mayor, Radio Raheem, Buggin’ Out and the crew on a blisteringly hot day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. Lee’s third feature film explored racial tension and police brutality in late-1980s New York City and earned…
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A New Spike Lee Joint Premieres at Black Film Festival
For the first time in 18 years, the American Black Film Festival is taking place in New York City. Running this year from June 19 to 22, it brings with it an impressive lineup of movies and stars. From the opening-night film, Think Like a Man Too, to Spike Lee’s closing-night movie, Da Sweet Blood…
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Our Favorite Jet Magazine Covers
Jet magazine, the digest-sized magazine that has graced African-American homes, beauty salons and barbershops for more than 60 years, announced this week that it’s ending its print edition in May. Moving ahead with today’s digital age, the magazine will be published weekly online and through its new app. Founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson…
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When Blackness Is Nearly Invisible: Photos
Editor’s note: This slideshow accompanies the article “Beyond Biracial: When Blackness Is a Small, Nearly Invisible Fraction.” What can the experiences and identities of 2014’s cohort of people with just one black-identified grandparent teach us about the evolving nature of racial identity? Stephanie Troutman, 36, who calls herself “a mixed woman who has a child…
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Lights, Camera, Action! Black Female Directors
Belle, a new movie about a biracial woman’s experience as a quasi-aristocrat in 18th-century Great Britain, is piquing the nation’s interest in a boatload of topics, including the real-life woman on whose story the film is loosely based, how the abolition of slavery in the United Kingdom differed from the history in the United States,…
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11 Black Entrepreneurs Share Advice on How to Get Wealthy
Editor’s note: This is part 5 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. Read part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. We asked 11 black entrepreneurs from a variety of industries—including technology, finance, advertising and human resources—to give us their best pro tips on how to build wealth. Here’s what they…
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Living It Up: 10 Affluent Black Neighborhoods
Editor’s note: This is part 3 in a five-part series on growing and maintaining wealth. Read part 1 and part 2. Owning a home used to be one of the main methods of accumulating wealth in America. Although the housing crisis of 2007-2008 makes accruing wealth more difficult, buying a home does still have its…