We’ve made no secret of our belief that Hollywood is producing just a few too many paint-by-numbers Black biopics, and this week’s announcement of a whopping four black-themed biopics was just a case in point. According to Rotten Tomatoes’ Weekly Ketchup, all systems are go for an “official” biographical drama on Martin Luther King Jr., Read More
cross-posted at the United States of Jamerica I’m sure most of you recognize the post title as an unfortunately short and pithy way of describing the frustrating situation African-American workers are usually in during recessions. The latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that that’s still the case: Black Male Worker Jobless Rate Read More
John Hope Franklin died today at age 94. I met him years ago at a conference on race at Stanford. I don’t remember much about it, other than my father being really excited to be in the man’s presence. It wasn’t until later that I understood how important he was to legitimizing the study of Read More
John Hope Franklin died today at age 94. I met him years ago at a conference on race at Stanford. I don’t remember much about it, other than my father being really excited to be in the man’s presence. It wasn’t until later that I understood how important he was to legitimizing the study of Read More
You know what that means! Happy George-Washington-Carver-Invented-The-Peanut Month!!! Share your favorite BHM myths here. And if you’re interested in real black history, without the kente cloth and cries of harambee!! check out the PB series on little-known facts: Know Your History.
Note to the New York Times: Not only would King not have been elected president – sizeable number of Americans saw him as little more than a troublemaker – but King had no interest in elected office. He saw himself as speaking truth to a fundamentally flawed system; it would have been the height of Read More
W.E.B. DuBois We’ve got news. There is no Talented Tenth. Or at least, not in the way it is popularly imagined. We know that this comes as a surprise to the many African Americans who believe that the primary purpose for becoming educated is to lord it over others under the guise of “giving back.” Read More
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How does a man who was so deeply unpopular when he was alive become a universally beloved and toothless Christ figure? The holiday and the statues, for starters.
