equality Tag

New single ‘Lift Our Spirits, Raise Our Voice’ now streaming

After teasing the track on Instagram last week, Ziggy has officially released his latest single, "Lift Our Spirits, Raise Our Voice" on all streaming services today! The track was written during the pandemic, amidst the protests following the murder of George Floyd last summer. The track is...

Ziggy receives Black Press 2020 Global Icon Award at NNPA Virtual Convention

Photo by Tim Cadiente Article by Stacy Brown, Pride Publishing Group Reggae legend Ziggy Marley received the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) 2020 Global Icon Achievement Award during the NNPA’s Annual Convention that took place July 8 and July 9. The two-day international broadcast marked the first virtual convention...

Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality

Image by Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty. Article by Sarah Milov, via The Atlantic. Especially because Americans of color have borne the brunt of the drug war, they deserve to share in the marijuana boom now taking hold across the country. And if America’s long...

Real Madrid approve women’s team for 2020

Photo by vmiquilena via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Article by Adriana Garcia via ESPN Real Madrid confirmed on Tuesday evening they will have a women's team compete in Spain's top flight beginning in the 2020-21 campaign. The club's board approved the acquisition of Madrid-based women's club CD Tacon...

No Other Congress Has Ever Looked Like This…

Photo via CNN.com (Getty Images) Article by By Clare Foran and Phil Mattingly, via CNN Washington (CNN) — The 116th class of Congress broke barriers before its members even set foot in Washington. One example: Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Somali-American member of Congress, noted...

Ramla Ali: ‘In boxing we are all equal’

Photo by Alan Clarke Article by Alex Moshakis, via The Guardian When Ramla Ali, a British champion boxer, is preparing for an important tournament, she visits the Peacock gym in Canning Town, east London, where Lennox Lewis once trained. There she rattles through a revolving cast of handy sparring partners....