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CNN — Protesters have marched in the US for six consecutive nights over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Their anger over . . .
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The Rev. Mark Thompson’s illustrious and groundbreaking journalism career, which found its roots in the Black Press of America nearly 40 years ago, has come full circle as he assumes a pivotal leadership role with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). From his early days as […]
In Hollywood, just four words are needed to end the prospects of a film with a predominantly African American cast: Black films don’t travel. Such a mantra has dead-ended countless scripts and limited diversity on and behind screens. The belief is that films with black casts will be seen only by black audiences. But black […]
CNN — It began as a love letter to Black people in the wake of an unexpected verdict. It was July 2013 and George Zimmerman was on trial for murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin . . .
Thousands of protesters marched against police brutality and racism in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday. The demonstration was about George Floyd, the black man killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. But the protest was also about Belgium: its . . .
America’s Black Lives Matter movement has jumped continents. July 13, 2016, 1:54 PM ET • 10 min read — America’s Black Lives Matter movement has jumped continents in the wake of recent fatal police shootings of black men in the United States. From Europe to Africa, people around the world are marching in solidarity […]
(CNN) Protesters have marched in the US for six consecutive nights over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Their anger over the killing of the unarmed black man has now spread worldwide. Over the weekend . . .
As protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing spur a ripple effect of change around the country, and around the world, Amnesty International is calling for a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by police for mass surveillance purposes, to address racially discriminatory . . .
Huda Ahmed first saw fists raised in protest after the deaths of Eric Garner and Philando Castile at the hands of police. “As a young Black girl,” the San Diego activist says, “that symbolic fist really opened my eyes to the injustices within our country.” This summer, Ahmed has been raising her own fist during […]
When people from Düsseldorf to Jakarta poured on to the streets this month in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after the killing of George Floyd, Igoni Barrett found himself in Amsterdam. A Nigerian novelist of Jamaican descent, Mr Barrett had been stranded in his wife’s home country since the beginning of […]