Many people may remember the plot of the 2018 film Sorry to Bother You from writer and director Boots Riley. The film follows Cassius, a young Black man in Oakland, California, who picks up a job as a telemarketer in a call center. Cassius is a failure at his new job...
Bill Russell, considered one of the greatest basketball players ever to live, passed away on July 31st at the age of 88. He is best known for his dominant defending and impact in the basketball world, but is equally admirable for his actions off the court. Russell was...
As previously reported here, on July 7 in Baltimore, a white man with a master’s degree got out of his car with a metal baseball bat and swung it at several Black youths who were “squeegee workers,” offering to clean windshields for tips. Facing this attack, one of...
On Thursday, July 7, a group of squeegee workers were doing their thing, offering to wash windshields for tips from drivers, at a busy downtown intersection by Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. A motorist, a white man with a master’s degree in engineering from Johns Hopkins...
Last week President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seventeen people. Much of the time, this award is given to people who have at best made only questionable contributions to our world, and to some who are outright bad. For example, Biden himself...
