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California high schoolers awarded $1 million after 'blackface' claims linked to acne-mask photos
USA Today· 15 hours ago"This case is significant not only for its groundbreaking effect on all private high schools in...
Between Riverside and Crazy at the Hampstead Theatre review: Danny Sapani is on great charismatic...
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoHis tendency to spring surprise plot points and jokes is manipulative. The script’s ostensibly...
US schools reinstate Confederate names stripped after Black Lives Matter backlash
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTwo schools in rural Virginia that were stripped of the names of Confederate generals at the height...
Did Kids Become More Racist Under Trump?
New York Magazine· 2 hours agoCammie, who is white, told Hagerman she celebrated with her parents the morning after Trump’s election. “I am happy because Trump will look out for...
Adam Johnson, AlterNet
The Raw Story· 2 hours agoThis phenomenon has reared its ugly head again with the Ferguson Effect, a panic that that Blacks Lives Matter movement and its “heightened rhetoric” are somehow leading to ...
'Black Twitter: A People's History' tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe three-part Hulu docuseries traces how Black people have used the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now X, as a means of communal expression.
Modern Far-Right Terrorism Repeats Reconstruction-Era Themes
Time via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoIn the post-Reconstruction years, the effort to suppress the Black vote (or what some termed...
‘Black Twitter’: Movements, Memes and Crying Jordan
New York Times· 4 days agoWhat Penny wanted to do was capture the pivotal moments that have come to define this organic online community, including the movements (Black Lives ...
Chicago Agrees To Pay $5.8 Million To Settle Suit Over Racism In Water Department
Black Enterprise· 1 day agoThe City of Chicago has tentatively agreed to pay out a $5.8 million settlement to 12 Black...
What the 'Black Twitter' Docuseries Gets Wrong
Time via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt doesn’t have the capacity to capture the legacy of a movement because it’s a movement that isn't over. It is still unfurling—still morphing and coming...