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November 29 2014; Ariyana Smith made the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture at a university basketball game.
She lay on the court for four-and-a-half minutes to represent the four-and-a-half hours Michael Brown lay dead on the streets of Ferguson.
I heard about her through Dave Zirin at a Philosophy Football event a few weeks after and asked him if people would remember her 50 years on.
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
JAMES NALTON on Munyua’s stinging success at the World Darts Championship
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER