David Zirin of The Nation, notes Kenny Stills as an outspoken critic of the apparent hypocrisy that Ross displayed in hosting a fundraiser and heading the RISE nonprofit. Further, Zirin notes the fact that the “NFL is almost entirely dependent on black labor and black bodies in its pursuit of billions of dollars in annual […]
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Planning Committee chose the timely theme “The (Mis)Education of US.” As I tuned in to watch the live stream of the MLK Symposium keynote featuring Dr. Angela Davis, I was struck by two video messages from Warde Manuel, Michigan’s Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics, and Scott DeRue, […]
For some, like myself, the realities that the Black Lives Matter movement portrays are personal and create trauma. As a Black woman who is constantly sifting through these traumatic realities and trying to shape my work to be a counter story, I am in a pendulum process where I oscillate between trying to desensitize myself […]
Two years in a row controversy has erupted after Academy Awards nominations as only one Person of Color received a nomination in any of the big six categories. Mexican born Alejandro González Iñárritu is the single persons and was nominated in Best Director category for Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014) and again […]