Victoria Monét Is Having Her Moment — And It Was A Long Journey To Get Here

“I Run This” is a weekly interview series that highlights Black women and femmes who do dope shit in entertainment and culture while creating visibility, access and empowerment for those who look like them. Read my Teyonah Paris interview here.Victoria Monét arrives for our interview amid what’s likely her busiest project rollout to date. Her team buzzes around to...

California Senate Gets Second Chance to Pass Prison Slavery Bill This Week

By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media On June 23, the California Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to remove language in the state Constitution that allows involuntary servitude as punishment to a crime with a 21-6 vote. The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude with one exception: if...

Black Conservatives Celebrate Supreme Court’s Protection of Religious Freedom

Project 21, The National Center | The Orlando Advocate Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 Black leadership network praised a landmark win for religious freedom and free speech, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that a school district wrongly fired a high school football coach who prayed at the conclusion of a game. “This decision marks a return to...

Obama Urges Americans to Take in ‘Whole Truth’ of Israel-Gaza War

The former president said everyone was “complicit to some degree” in the current bloodshed and acknowledged the points of view on both sides of the conflict. Source