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Disney and Parkwood Entertainment have released a new trailer for Black Is King, an upcoming visual album and film from Beyoncé that was inspired by The Lion King. Check it out up top via YouTube. Black Is King is scheduled to drop on Disney+ on Friday, July 31. Bey wrote, directed, produced, and is starring in the project. She also did […]
Beyoncé’s philanthropic foundation BeyGOOD has teamed up with the NAACP to provide a number of $10,000 grants to black-owned businesses that were severely affected in recent months. The Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund will award the grants to businesses in particular cities—Houston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis—that are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic […]
I am one-quarter black, and I grew up in King’s Lynn—a town not too far from Cambridge. My grandad is from Trinidad and Tobago and my great-grandmother was Venezuelan, but pretty much the rest of my family is white British, so I’m quite light in complexion. I have what would be considered “white” features, so especially when my hair […]
Michael V. Drake’s retirement was pretty short-lived. Just a week after he left his post as the president of Ohio State University, Drake was announced as the 21st president of the University of California system. The move marks the first time a Black person has ever held the position in the system’s 152-year history. “Dr. Drake personifies […]
Last week, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian handed in his letter of resignation from the board and asked that his company replace him with a Black candidate to add more diversity. On Wednesday afternoon, it appears the digital forum giant took his advice to heart. Michael Seibel, CEO of a Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, has now become the first Black board member […]
Terry Crews found himself in hot water following a Sunday tweet in which he wrote about “black supremacy.” In the tweet, Crews said that in order to defeat white supremacy, both black and white people must unite, and if not, they risk creating “black supremacy.” Crews’ use of the controversial term—which is defined by Wikipedia as a “racist belief” that black people […]
Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, took to Instagram to encourage other people “with big pockets” to donate to organizations fighting for racial equality amid nationwide protests demanding justice for George Floyd. The Weeknd also showed receipts for a number of contributions he made totaling $500,000. The After Hours artist contributed $200,0000 to Black Lives Matter Global Network, $200,000 […]
On Monday morning, a white woman in New York City’s famed Central Park decided to call the cops on a black man after he requested that she restrain her dog with a leash. “I’m gonna tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” the woman, who has been identified as Amy Cooper, can be heard […]
Princeton University has announced Nicholas Johnson, a student who majored in operations research and financial engineering, as the school’s first black valedictorian in its 274-year history. Johnson is also pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing. Johnson, a Montreal native, will spend the summer interning at the D.E. Shaw Group […]
Two high school students in Georgia were expelled after posting a racist TikTok using negative African American stereotypes. In the thread by Twitter user Camden, you can watch the aforementioned TikTok shared on Thursday with the two students. It shows the teenagers using racial slurs and making derogatory remarks about African Americans like “eat watermelon […]
