A White Writer’s Book About Black Feminism Filmed After a Social Controversy

The white paper for “Bad and Boujee: Toward a Trap Feminist Theology” says the book “struggles to focus on the overlapping of black experience, hip-hop music, ethics and feminism, a subsection known as ‘trap feminism’.” But the book, written by Jennifer M. Buck, a white academic at a Christian university, was criticized by some. writers …

Black Artists Lead on Turner Award Shortlist

LONDON – Ingrid Pollard, a pioneering Black female photographer, and Veronica Ryan, a widely recognized Black sculptor in her 60s, are among this year’s nominees for the prestigious British visual arts award, the Turner Prize. The four-person shortlist was announced Tuesday at an online press conference at the Tate Liverpool, an art museum in northern …

Two Black Coaches Join Brian Flores’ Case Against the NFL

Two Black NFL coaches joined the lawsuit filed in February by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores. blamed the league and its 32 teams discriminating against African Americans in their recruitment practices. On Thursday, Steve Wilks, who was fired after one season as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, and Ray Horton, longtime assistant …

One Last Package From ‘Slap’: Leave Black Women’s Hair Relaxed

Generations of black American women remember weekend afternoons spent watching an iron comb glistening like molten lava on the stove. We waited for our mothers to wield the hot comb as a weapon, making our spiral thickets ready to bow to make us culturally palatable. Even at a young age, I wondered who I should …

‘Memphis’ Is A Rhapsodic Hymn To Black Women

Yet “Memphis” is far from joyless; It conveys a world of joyful pleasure, as with the Black female radicals of the 1960s, who found a pleasant space to strategize both with traditional women’s jobs (tailoring, hairdressing, nursing) and less traditional pursuits. On Hazel’s porch. These women have a feeling that they are familiar with Stringfellow, …

Black Independent Film Champion Michelle Materre dies at 67

Michelle Materre, a distributor and educator who promoted the voices of Black women in films and released influential independent films from Black creators, died March 11 in White Plains, NY. She was 67 years old. A friend, Kathryn Bowser, said the cause was oral cancer. Ms Materre was an early advocate of independently published work …

Experts Say Long Covid Could Become a Crisis for Black Americans

The authors write that black Americans are overrepresented in key worker positions, increasing their risk of exposure to the virus. They were also more likely than white Americans to live in multi-generational homes or crowded areas, be incarcerated, or live in densely populated areas. Many Black Americans who contracted the coronavirus suffered from serious illness …