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Lynching Survivor’s Memoir Wins Prestigious Book Award

May 29, 2016

Dr. James Cameron’s memoir A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story received the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Silver Award for the Great Lakes – Best Regional Non-Fiction during a ceremony held May 10th in Chicago. It is the only account of a lynching ever written by a survivor. The prize-winning 3rd edition contains 50 vintage photos, over 100 background notes, never-before-published chapters, and a Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword.

Black Media Excluded from U.S. Justice Department’s Anti-Smoking Campaigns

May 17, 2016

U.S. Justice Department cuts an anti-smoking deal that excludes black media, thus disproportionately affecting black communities,

Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation”, Hollywood Clapback or Just Another Slave Movie?

May 6, 2016

By Riley Wilson and Shantrelle P. Lewis, Colorlines.com In this point/counterpoint about Nate Parker’s buzzy directorial debut, two Black independent filmmakers wrestle with the notion of seeing more chains, whips and nooses on the big screen. Riley Wilson: “The Birth of a Nation” Didn’t Change the Game …On the one hand, we have a film written, directed, and starring…

‘Proof of Life’ Video Shows Some of Chibok, Nigeria’s Kidnapped Girls

April 28, 2016

See the video in which parents saw their children for the first time in two years.

SNL’s “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” and How White America Went Nuts

February 15, 2016

Watch white folks go off when they find out that Beyoncé is, gasp, black.

Yes, These Babies Are Actually Twins

February 10, 2016

Their mom fields A LOT of questions.

Unpublished Black History

February 8, 2016

A Newark at War With Itself: the summer riots of 1967

President Proclaims National African American History Month 2016

February 4, 2016

The full text of President Obama’s Proclamation, dated January 29, 2016, in which he states: “During National African American History Month, we recognize these champions of justice and the sacrifices they made to bring us to this point, we honor the contributions of African Americans since our country’s beginning, and we recommit to reaching for a day when no person is judged by anything but the content of their character.”