From NBCBLK: When 17-year-old ‘Hunger Games’ actress and activist Amandla Stenberg spoke out on Instagram against reality star Kylie Jenner’s cultural appropriation of black hairstyles in 2015, her activism garnered mainstream attention. Soon afterward, her YouTube video on the topic, “Don’t Cashcrop My Cornrows,” went viral and she starred as
From NBC BLK: 5 Lessons From Shonda Rhimes’ New Book ‘Year of Yes’ by BROOKE OBIE “You never say yes to anything.” Who would think that statement would apply to Shonda Rhimes? She’s ABC’s queen of television owning everyone’s Thursday nights with her three hit shows:Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How
I interviewed Black Lives Matter movement activists, Bree Newsome, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Rahiel Tesfamariam and Marissa Johnson for my NBC BLK piece “Radical Black Activists in the New Civil Rights Movement” “This aint yo mama’s civil rights movement.” Those were the words emblazoned on activist and public theologian Rahiel Tesfamariam’s