In 2010, after I was freelancing out of a brownstone in Harlem, I wrote an article titled “Where is the Black Liz Lemon?” that touched on the dearth of complicated Black feminine characters in media. A number of days after I posted the piece, I bought a observe from a lady named Issa, thanking me and saying the article was ...
Individuals of America, begin taking note of your change. A brand new quarter design, that includes a portrait of the legendary poet and activist Maya Angelou, went into circulation on Monday. Angelou is the first African American woman ever to look on a quarter, and the first within the American Girls Quarters Program, which celebrates the accomplishments and contributions made ...
Over the previous six months, the Home committee investigating the January 6 rebellion in Washington, D.C., has interviewed a whole lot of witnesses, and reviewed tens of 1000’s of paperwork, and are now preparing to make their findings public. However as extra particulars are revealed, and some consequences doled out, there’s a easy query that continues to be. After the ...
In Atlanta’s Previous Fourth Ward, the neighborhood the place Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up and later preached, 37% of Black kids dwell in poverty. No white kids do, in keeping with 2018 Census estimates. The neighborhood has rapidly gentrified during the last twenty years as white residents have moved in. However practically half of the remaining Black households reside ...
After a whole bunch of thousands and thousands spent on variety applications, and scores of poetic company guarantees of imminent enchancment, the stats barely budge. Black folks (14 p.c of the American inhabitants) have been under-represented in government ranks for many years. In the S&P 100’s 50 largest firms, solely 2% of high executives are Black. The current research, PowHer ...
Tracy Oliver has made it a degree in her profession as producer and author for TV and movie to middle her work round Black ladies—however, most significantly, Black ladies who’re allowed to be greater than savior figures or martyrs of Black trauma. “I don’t assume individuals notice the impression that it has on ladies of coloration to see themselves in ...
Trend, clothes, textiles, equipment, and costume have served a vital function in protest actions all through history. Clothes usually affords the most elementary alternative for teams to insurgent: a easy, mundane merchandise that may symbolize discontent. British punks took the humble security pin from the family stitching equipment, punched it by way of an earlobe, and headed out to face ...
When Yvonne Orji’s agent despatched her a task to audition for final yr, it lastly hit her: “I’m again on this world once more,” Orji recollects. “I freaked out.” For six years, Orji has starred within the groundbreaking present Insecure as Molly Carter, the kind A greatest buddy to Issa Dee (present creator Issa Rae). Insecure bloomed from the scrappy ...
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