Photo via The Hollywood Reporter By Ta-Ning Connai Spike Lee has done it again! He’s made a movie that has pissed some people off. The man who garnered iconic status for his thought-provoking, in your face, knock you upside your head black conscious projects back in the early 80s to late 90s has not deviated …
Screenshot of video By Onicia Muller There’s a one-minute clip of an adult male pretending to arrest a baby. A small fraction of Twitter users replied in-thread that police or Child Protective Services (CPS) should be involved. A larger portion seemed to view the role-play as a joke. As always, I have mixed thoughts about …
Officer Norman and kids in his Little Rock community By Ta-ning Connai Officer Thomas Norman is clearly cut from a different cloth. Through his strategy for community policing (a mix of relatability, love, compassion and respect), he is changing the way many of us see law enforcement. He was doing good deeds behind the scenes …
Reggie Fields of ‘Mr Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service’ By Erickka Sy Savané Another day, another person calling the police on someone black for no good reason. There was ‘BBQ Becky‘ who called the police on some black folks who were chefing it up with a grill in the park. ‘Permit Patty’ who got her fingers …
“Got surrounded by the police for being black in a white neighborhood,” wrote one of the guests (the granddaughter of Bob Marley). Credit Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, via IG By Daniel Victor It was an entirely routine moment: Four people exited the home they had rented on Airbnb in Rialto, Calif., and loaded suitcases into their car. …
Actress Reagan Preston-Gomez and her mom Cheryl Gomez By Mwabi Kaira Listening to Queen Sugar actress Reagan Preston-Gomez’s podcast Reaganomics last week, featuring her mother Cheryl Gomez, I could not believe that her sexual harassment story that happened back in 1982 sounded exactly like the many sexual harassment accounts by women today. Thirty five years …
