As many of us enjoy this Labor Day holiday, I thought it would be fitting to acknowledge a pioneer to the Black Labor Movement. A. Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters is typically looked at as the first Black union to be recognized by a national body in 1925,…
Last night we were collectively gut-punched when we learned that actor Chadwick Boseman, and fellow Bison, lost his four-year battle with colon cancer. The shock was multiplied because we never knew that he was sick and yet he gave us his all in his films while fighting his own battle…
In 1917, poet Claude McKay wrote a poem called “To the White Fiends”. McKay was a Jamaican immigrant who had just come to America three years prior. His poems were a reflection of Blackness, whether it be joy or pain, and he was considered one of the more radical voices…
Back in January 2020, Black-British Get Out/Black Panther actor Daniel Kaluuya, who was born to Ugandan parents, was doing promo for his newly released film Queen & Slim (another film about Black Americans starring Black Brits but I will get to that later). During this promo, Kaluuya did an interview…
Am I late to this party? I was late for the “Black people go to Martha’s Vineyard During August” party so it’s possible. I think I kind of remember Black Restaurant Week last year but last year feels like decades ago and I am not really trusting my memory right…