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Byron Allen at the ceremony where his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled on October 20, 2021 in Hollywood, California. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images While it may seem like Black-focused media is at a high these days, the reality is only 4% of all media in the U.S. is Black-owned. Moreover, experts say that biased practices from advertisers make it harder for Black-owned media companies to be profitable. […]

Sundial is against sitting idle, and calls not just to hear its own voice, but to enter into conversation in the griot tradition of call and response. Emma McIntyre/Getty Ima Hip-hop has been effectively deradicalized by middle age, botched love and commercialism, to the extent that so-called "conscious rap" often sounds like a grift to feed a void in the market — the hungry ghost of authenticity. Plenty of the […]

Texas based artist Robert Marquez works on memorials for Jerrald Gallion, Angela Carr and Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr. near a Dollar General store where the were shot and killed two days earlier on August 28, 2023 in Jacksonville, Florida. Sean Rayford/Getty Images The latest mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida left three people dead. All of the victims were Black and the white gunman left behind racist, hate-filled letters. The Justice […]

Marvin Jones (left) and Rose Washington-Jones (center), from Tulsa, Okla., took part in the AI red-teaming challenge at Def Con earlier this month with Black Tech Street. Deepa Shivaram/NPR Kelsey Davis had what might seem to be an odd reaction to seeing blatant racism on her computer screen: She was elated. Davis is the founder and CEO of CLLCTVE, a tech company based in Tulsa, Okla. She was one of […]