Academy Breakin’ Convention (ABC), a brand-new school offering the UK’s first free Level 3 Qualification specific to hip hop theatre – officially opens from Monday 8| Afropean: your guide to the Afro European diaspora and beyond
I arrived at the Carenage — Grenada’s historic waterfront in the capital city — around 4:30 a.m. on J’ouvert morning, ready to “play Jab.” The streets were still cloaked in darkness, but the energy was already building. People appeared one by one or in groups, their bodies blackened from head to toe, merging into a tide of beautiful Blackness. Some carried chains, others horns, and others buckets of oil. The air smelled like charcoal mixed with old oil. Then came the sound that si...| Okayplayer
TikTok users have been documenting the price of growing up Black in predominantly white suburban neighborhoods.| TheGrio
An academic walks into a room. He is faced by eight other people. He’s a late arrival, the meeting is almost over. A government official introduces him badly, getting his name wrong, misrepresenting his work and generally not having done his research properly. It’s an inauspicious start to his involvement in a government commission into […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Striking figures with eclectic, brightly colored clothing punctuate the room. Under the dim spotlight, you must gaze upwards to get a glimpse of the figure looking down upon the crowd. Its position above the crowd—hands at its sides, eyes unflinching, a sureness in its posture—is one of subdued power and courage. On the second floor...| The Science Survey
Miss Juneteenth Minnesota 2025 crowned six new queens, including the first Madam Juneteenth. Sannia Elzia now leads with a bold message and a new platform.| Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
I’ve celebrated Resurrection Sunday my whole life. I’ve been fully familiar with Black liberation theology’s commentary that Jesus was a brown-skinned Jew who was killed by the state; most of my life I understood Jesus’ death on a cross as a political death. However, the end result of a lot of schooling and mulling over […]| Joshua Lawrence Lazard
From a young age, Victoria Okwudi, Nurs ’25, was drawn to the art of braiding and styling Black hair. She grew up in admiration of her aunt, who owned her very own salon, and revered all the “grown folks” getting their hair done while chatting about their grown-up lives. She quickly realized her aunt’s salon wasn’t only a place for primping and preening, but also an essential hub for connection in her local Black community.| The Queen's Journal