It’s that time again!
The census is coming up and Black people NEED to be counted. It’s why multiple Black leaders are spreading through the community to remind our people why we must participate.
Because if we don’t get counted correctly, the consequences could be more dire than imaginable.
The Census comes around every 10 years - but Black people are expected to be WAY undercounted in 2020. That might have to do with these myths:
Myth 1: The Census doesn’t impact me personally
Like many Black mothers, Rozalynn Goodwin grew steadily impatient - not with the carefree joy of her daughter Gabrielle, but with how all of her meticulously placed hair accessories could never stay fastened for long.
The frustrating incident turned into the business lesson of a lifetime.
The Goodwin mother-daughter duo developed a solution to vanishing hair bows by creating, then patenting the FIRST double-face, double-snap barrettes also known as GaBBY Bows!
But as it turned out, inventing the anti-slip clip was only the beginning...
You probably saw him in this viral video drumming it up with the best of them.
Jeremiah Travis is only five years old, but he’s playing with teenagers three times his age. And if he keeps it up, he has a bright future ahead of him - because of one generous offer.
As a child, Sacha Antonetty-Lebrón combed through the coveted copies of Essence and Ebony magazines her father brought across the ocean to bring his beautiful Afro-Latina daughter. As she grew older, she was inspired to shake things up.
Because the absence of darker-complexioned Black faces was starkly evident across television shows, beauty pageants, and even news broadcasts, Antonetty-Lebrón created Revista étnica (Ethnic Magazine) to fill a void.
You may recognize the bright smiles and kind welcoming spirits of Ron and Natalie Daise from the ‘90s children’s program, Gullah Gullah Island.
For many Black children, the Daise family’s work to help Gullah-Geechee culture come to life to the delight of a national television audience was a special honor.
19 years ago, Sheriff Sidney Dorsey was running for re-election in Dekalb County, GA. But he was under investigation for corruption, and his rival, Derwin Brown, promised to reform the department.
When Brown won the election, Dorsey started plotting. And what he decided to do makes us wonder: who are the criminals again, exactly?
NYPD is making headlines in the subways of New York City. This time it’s because of their heavy-handed policing, and video shows just how bad police harassment is for subway goers - both young and old!
Over-policing in the subways isn’t a new thing. Now that the NYPD is getting more funding and more police in the subway, everyone is feeling it.
That includes food vendors, who police have been seen arresting in several viral videos that have caused outrage.
Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg wants you to know he’s sorry… for stop-and-frisk. Many of us know it well: the systematic targeting of Black people to be stopped by police and treated like we’ve committed a crime - no matter what.
He liked it then, but he’s “sorry” now.
For 50 years, Sesame Street has always been a show that uplifts Black children.
In 1969, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chester Pierce joined Sesame Street creators as senior adviser - directing the show towards an inclusive message that grew to specialize in producing content for the explicit purpose of combatting racist stereotypical tropes television viewers had grown accustomed to.