What's On Today - Friday

Breonna Taylor is more than a hashtag. Four years after Louisville Metro Police killed Breonna, her death is still tough to process. 

Breonna deserved better from authorities in Louisville and the state of Kentucky as a whole. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron made a mockery of accountability.

MORE: Breonna Taylor Civil Rights Case: A Timeline Of Events In The Trial

State leaders are apparently finally trying to change that now, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal:

Republican Sen.

Here’s a question: What if conservatives are lying about the negative impact learning about racism in class has on their children?

What if white parents are really just projecting their own racial resentment onto their children when they’re filling the school board room meetings to complain about the psychological damage done to their kids after they heard the words “systemic racism” or white privilege?” After all, when Republican legislators are making bold claims that critical race theory teaches white students that they’re inherently racist and to hate their country—which CRT absolutley doesn’t teach—it’s not like they ever provide any studies or any evidence at all that indicates said students actually feel that way.… Read more

In honor of Women’s History Month, Race Forward, a racial equity organization, is releasing its long-awaited documentary, Women Transcend, which gives a poignant look into the plight of incarcerated women across the U.S.

According to a press release sent to NewsOne, Race Forward’s riveting documentary will highlight the lives of formerly incarcerated women such as prison reform activist, Cheryl Wilkins and re-entry specialist Ivy Mathis, who was sentenced to life in prison as a child, but released in 2018 after community leaders fought to overturn her conviction, the Voice Of The Experienced website noted.… Read more

Maybe—and I’m just spitballing here—but maybe the anti-woke movement is really just more pro-white, anti-POC racism. Take the subject of racial diversity in Hollywood for instance.

Maybe white people are only calling Hollywood “woke” because, in their minds, W.O.K.E is an acronym for “Whiteness Over Knee-grow Entertainment,” or something to that effect.

Maybe the truth is white people are so used to seeing themselves overwhelmingly dominate the entertainment industry that when the pendulum swings even an inch in a direction that prioritizes racial and cultural diversity, all they can see is reverse Jim Crow for white Hollywood and the implementation of woke supremacy.… Read more