Category: Youth
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

In photos: Scene of shooting in Kenosha Scenes from 40th Street and 28th Avenue Sunday evening, as neighbors gathered at the intersection where they say police tasered and then shot a man several times. #JacobBlake#SayHisName#blacklivesmatter Australia, Drugmaker Reach Deal On Potential COVID-19 Vaccine “The vaccine will need to satisfy all the same standards that all…
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The Evolved Person of the Week: Oluchi Omeoga

Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s first-ever “Evolved Person of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the activist, organizer, and co-founder of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Anti-communist protesters heckle staff emptying China’s consulate in Houston Houston is a major medical hub known for top-notch research on cancer, infectious diseases and since the pandemic hit this year, vaccines for the coronavirus, which first emerged in China late last year. The city is also home to dozens of oil and gas producers that…
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Evolved Men of the Week: Tré Jones, and Marcus Harvey

Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Indiana natives, Tre Jones, and Marcus…
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Another World is Possible

We The People There is a critique that I am a burned “Bernie Bro.” I assure you, I am not. Bernie is a politician, and politicians should be seen as a means to an end. Not someone to hero-worship either on the “so-called” left or right. I still contend that the policies put forth by…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

James Baldwin Was Right All Along “What one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right to be here, you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world.” And more pointedly: “I attest to this: The world is not…
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Magic Negro, No More

The Magical Negro has been a literary and film staple for decades. The Magical Negro can be described as a black person who in film, t.v., or literature has overt magical powers or sage wisdom to save white folks from a particular dilemma: These powers are used to save and transform disheveled, uncultured, lost, or…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

With Monuments Falling All Over Europe, We Asked Historians and Artists to Weigh in on How They Should Be Replaced “If the community wants [monuments] to be removed, then they should be removed, but they should remain in public view, by creating museums for them, as a reminder so that we don’t make the same…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Why The Small Protests In Small Towns Across America Matter These protests cut across demographics and geographic spaces. They’re happening in places with little in the way of a protest tradition, in places with majority white population and majority black, and at an unprecedented scale. People who’ve watched and participated in the Black Lives Matter…
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American Uprising

On Our Own The year 2020 continues to be a time where the world is on fire both figuratively and literally. You’d be silly to think it wasn’t. In the United States, people have finally realized that ‘we the people’ are on our own. No saviors are coming to make everything better. I’m sure the…