Editorial

I just witnessed the lynching of a black man, but don’t worry Ted, I’ll have those deliverables to you end of day.Between Amy Cooper’s Oscar worthy Central Park performance, Ahmaud Arbery shooting death in Georgia, Breonna Taylor’s assassination inside her Louisville home, and the Minneapolis murder of George Floyd, black people in America are running on fumes.We’re tired, angry, confused and yet, this space is familiar to us. This place of torment and trauma has become a home of sorts. The cycl...

The stinging cold and unrelenting wind is going pound-for-pound this early March afternoon outside Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. The sun peeks out from the few clouds in the sky, but instead of providing a warm reprieve from Mother Nature’s unruly child, it causes many to use their gloved hands as visors as they venture to and from the studio lot. Shortly after receiving a guest pass from security, she appeared.
“Hi,” Courtney A. Kemp said extending her arms for a hug. The creator and showrunner...

African-Americans and law enforcement in the United States have long had a volatile relationship. Habitual is too diminutive, but the most accurate word to describe the constant beatings with billy clubs and the bullets that have pierced black skin. Yet at any given moment, in any far corner of the country, America repeatedly invokes the dangers of being born in a black body, and the justice system solidifies the unspoken second-class citizenship with acquittals and non-indictments as recompense...