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Former United States Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney PhD shared an invitation on her X account this week, inviting her followers to a livestream titled “CAN BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER DEFEAT OUR COMMON ENEMY?” with a Star of David under the word “ENEMY.” The Livestream, which was first brought to attention by activist […]
(September 7, 2023 / JNS) It took Bill Pinkney 22 months and 27,000 miles to sail on The Commitment around the world alone in 1992, inspiring a documentary and presidential praise. In doing so, he became the second black man to make such a trip—and the first to go south of Chile. Pinkney started in […]
by Morgan State U July 14, 2023 Jews in America have been important partners for African-Americans and their universities, said administrators of five Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The educators were in Israel as part of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s second annual capacity-building mission to […]
PETALUMA, California (AP) — One camper, from Oakland, California, has a white Jewish mother and a father who is Black and Muslim. Another was adopted in Uganda by a white Jewish woman; they now live in Montana. Like many of the young people who shared challenges and adventures with them this summer, they grew up […]
Jack Teixeira, 21, was charged with leaking secret Pentagon documents last month. The Air National Guard member was preparing for a violent “race war,” The Washington Post found. The Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira was preparing for what he envisioned would be a violent “race war,” according to The Washington Post. Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts […]
(CNN) When Zack Galifianakis asks Paul Rudd about his Jewishness in “Between Two Ferns: The Movie,” the actor responds with a quip. “I’m not a practicing Jew,” he says with a smirk. “I perfected it.” Rudd’s now widely referenced line nods to a sentiment felt by many Jews: There isn’t any one way to be […]
Small groups of students recently walked through a hallway of portraits at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., quietly staring up at the rows of framed faces that seemed to stare back at them. A guide encouraged students to focus on one victim and think about whom that person might have been before […]
I’m not going to lie — when I saw the preview for the Netflix film You People, starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London, about a white Jewish man and Black Muslim woman who fall in love, I was both curious and maybe a little hopeful that You People would be a modern Black/Jewish retelling of Guess Who’s Coming to […]
(L to R) Jonah Hill as Ezra and Lauren London as Amira in ‘You People.’ Photo by Parrish Lewis/Netflix By Ilana Kaufman February 8, 2023 I’m not going to lie — when I saw the preview for the Netflix film You People, starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London, about a white Jewish man and Black […]
AUSTIN, Texas — If the new hardline government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marches ahead with its efforts to chip away at Israel’s democracy, it will risk losing the support of the American-Jewish community and possibly the backing of other democracies, warned Abe Foxman, the long-time former leader of the Anti-Defamation League. If even […]