BlackLivesMatter

Social structures created and maintained a racial hierarchy — Race is a social construct, but we rarely discuss its construction. Biologically speaking, all people belong to the same species, homo sapiens. So, when we talk about race, we're discussing the idea that groups of people share unique physical and cultural characteristics, but there's nothing benign about the concept. …

Both Blackfacing and Blackfishing involve White people appropriating Blackness. But they are not the same thing. On Twitter today, a person going by the name Izuna9 tweeted “I’m mixed; I will no longer acknowledge the black half of me. We don’t invent; we don’t create; we don’t build. All we…

Reviewing Black Country Music — DePaul Professor of English Francesca T. Royster enjoys Country Music. In her latest book, Black Country Music: Listening For Revolutions (Univ. of Texas Press 2022), she invites us to travel with her, exploring how old country becomes new; new country invokes and beckons the old; and how we can choose…

Police claim there was no foul play in Rasheem Carter’s death, but the facts in the Taylorsville, Mississippi case point to a possible lynching — Rasheem Carter disappeared in early October 2022 in Taylorsville, Mississippi. The 25-year-old went missing after he reported to police that he was being followed by white men yelling racial slurs in three separate trucks. A month later, Smith’s remains were discovered on private property in a wooded area. …

How to often the system failed many homeless due to skin color. What has color of skin got to do with anything. The only thing color of skin does in this country more than many other country is discriminate in every aspect of life. Black people have been discriminated in…

Why some fight to gate-keep Blackness — Who is Black and who is not Black, is a question that many have been debating over social media; specifically over Twitter for the past few days. A popular YouTuber named Yanie said that actress Halle Berry is not black and that she is biracial "white passing" person over Twitter…

The year he died microbes commandeered streets hopscotching borders oblivious to need ears closed to incoming cries for help health vaccines justice piled up her belongings and exited dragging them down Main Street everyone united by the commonality of ignorance and fear of breathing breath moving out in wider circles breathing breathing…

The Truth About the History of Hockey — I was a taken back a bit when I found out that Black people created hockey. It's just hard to believe the sun people, created such a game that has been dominated by Europeans for so long. Little did I know, way before NHL. Hockey was black as hell. Before…