Black women are especially vulnerable to harm derived from hair styling practices.
On September 10 Gauff won her first-ever Grand Slam tournament after defeating Aryna Sabalenka.
The disturbing and pervasive truth is that Black girls haven’t been afforded childhood during the pandemic, but that had also been true well before COVID-19.
Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.
Of the many astonishing developments to come from COVID-19, the angry assemblies of Americans in many states requesting that the government reopen the country rank high.
Johnson not only calculated the trajectory for America’s first space trip with astronaut Alan Shepard and the calculations for the first moon landing in 1969 but also overcame racism and sexism throughout her career.
The report discovered that scripted crime television shows, which millions of viewers tune into on a regular basis, depict a false narrative about the unchecked heroism of law enforcement.
Waves is rare in its willingness to present a blurred marriage of volatility and sympathy without preaching or suggesting anything to the viewer. The movie itself crashes down on the audience like a wave, putting viewers in a state of constant unrest.
In a world in which long hair is equated to femininity and beauty, Tunzi challenged patriarchal prescriptions for what an ideal beautiful woman should look like. And that decision — among her many other qualifications and great performance — earned her the crown.
Get Out succeeds so magnificently because it tackles large and complex theoretical subjects in a creative and imaginative way.
I used to think that kids who live in nice homes and attend good schools are not supposed to feel hopeless. I thought Black students like me were always supposed to be strong and overcome whatever we encountered the way our ancestors did.
Black Twitter is generally known as a space for responses to cultural events and light-hearted humor. But it is also a genuinely critical space for black intellectuals and influencers, providing them a unique platform to explore the nuances of black Americans' lived experiences.
Who gets to tell stories of black trauma and how and when should they tell them?
Since Sontag’s articulation of camp, however, camp has been elevated to a new cultural meaning and enactment, primarily by the LGBTQ community, and even more specifically by people of color in that community — a reality the Met Gala theme failed to acknowledge.
Us not only imparts an eerie warning about the repercussions of idly living a life of privilege as people suffer beneath you, but takes the warning a step further by showing what can happen when the “outsiders” the privileged are so afraid of letting in, the people who have been pushed below and ignored, finally force their way in — and do so with a vengeance.
On February 20, Smollett was charged with his first felony, for filling out a false police report, and on March 8, he was indicted on 16 counts of making false statements to the police.
Nominations are a legitimate indication of who is worthy of not only cultural acknowledgment but a financial investment. This is why it’s crucial to pay attention not only to who is being recognized at the Academy Awards but also to who isn’t.
Siblings Hannah and Charlie Lucas, who are 16 and 13 respectively, decided to use technology to do something about the teen suicide epidemic: They created the notOK app, which aims to help those in need of mental health assistance by summoning family, friends, and a network of peers for users in need of support.
While it’s frustrating that Williams has to find herself navigating distractions like these instead of focusing on her 23 Grand Slam championships, Williams is nothing if not persistent.
Monáe’s new album navigates the myriad emotions involved in being socially deviant and outcast for that deviance.
The day after his “Saturday Night Live” performance, Childish Gambino released a new song titled “This Is America.” The complicated imagery of the song’s accompanying music video powerfully highlights the provocative symbolism of his lyrics, which make political statements about the role of blackness in America.
Issa Rae is not only a talented creator and writer, but is actually shifting the way the industry views creators of color
22-year-old Tyler Bryant, a senior at Alabama State University and president of the Alabama College Democrats, explains the efforts many students made on the ground to mobilize young voters and black voters to help Jones win.
Despite the accusations of sexual assault and molestation made against Alabama Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore, as well as the racist and anti-semitic comments he made — like his claim that America was great during slavery — nearly two-thirds of white women voted for him.
Meghan Markle will be the first nonwhite woman ever to marry into the British monarchy. But is this fact a point of progress, or does the frenzy surrounding Markle’s race just further reinforce harmful stereotypes surrounding beauty and colorism?