Brett Kavanaugh’s page in his high school yearbook offers a glimpse of the teenage years of the man who is now President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee: lots of football, plenty of drinking, parties at the beach. Among the reminiscences about sports and booze is a mysterious entry: “Renate Alumnus.” The word “Renate” appears at least […]
Good riddance! A white superintendent in Texas who criticized Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson in a racist social media post last Sunday resigned from his position, The Associated Press reports. Lynn Redden, formerly of the Onalaska Independent School District, wrote “That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I’ve seen in the NFL. When you […]
Zo Williams is a self-published author, relationship coach, television and radio personality, as well as the VP of Talk Radio at Dash Radio. A student of world religions, Zo is a passionate and opinionated dynamo who offers radical thoughts about the breakdown of social systems and institutions and how they impact human relations within the […]
Charreah K. Jackson is an international speaker, entraîneur, and ESSENCE Senior Editor, empowering the brand’s global audience of 13 millions. Her informed point-of-view has been featured on CNN, The CW, ABC Nouvelles, Fortune and TIME. Charreah is the author of Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman’s Playbook for Love & Success out next year on St. Martin’s […]
A new study reveals that black high school students who are actively fighting racism might have a harder time getting into colleges with white admissions counselors because … Wait? Did you even read the first part of that sentence? Ted Thornhill is a sociology professor at Florida Gulf Coast University whose research “examines color-blind ideology and new […]
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Standing outside McDonald’s on St. Charles Rock Road in St. Louis, Missouri, 61-year old Bettie Douglas joined over 100 people in a chant: “Hold the burgers, hold the fries, keep your hands off our thighs.” The crowd, made up of restaurant employees in and out of uniform, local community activists in brightly colored T-shirts, et […]
Saharah Ali, the founder of SAJI Yoga, Inc, is a spiritual architect who utilizes life coaching tools, spiritual techniques, yoga and meditation to help clients build their own best life. Before developing the SAJI yoga concept, Saharah had been teaching the discipline of yoga for more than 15 ans. She holds multiple certifications: Anasura Hatha yoga, […]
Nana Gyamfi has been a human and civil rights attorney with a specialty in criminal defense since 1994. Nana est diplômé de l'Université Cornell et a obtenu son diplôme en droit de l'UCLA School de droit. Dans 1992, tout en restant dans l'école de droit, Nana worked with Chokwe Lumumba at the Black Law Institute and co-organized and directed the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday showed jurors video of a white Chicago police officer opening fire on Laquan McDonald, dramatically recounting the 16 shots fired into the black teenager and calling the 2014 shooting “completely unnecessary.” Jurors saw the video of the shooting three times during the first day of Jason Van Dyke’s murder […]