For-Profit Healthcare Shortchanges Us All, but It's Failing Black Queer Youth En Masse

For-profit healthcare short-changes virtually everyone, but according to new evidence, Black queer youth are among those who suffer the most. A new study from The Trevor Project led by Myeshia Price-Feeney, PhD, found that 44 percent of Black queer youth seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months, including 59 percent of Black transgender and…

Starr Andrews Was So Inspired by the Song "Black Like Me" That She "Just Had to Skate to It"

Watch figure skater Starr Andrews as she gracefully glides on the ice to the song “Black Like Me” by Mickey Guyton. In the video, she thanks Guyton for singing this song, which inspired her so much that she said, “I just had to skate to it.” Andrews said the program choreographed by Derrick Delmore “honors…

Watch 80 WNBA Players Band Together in a Powerful Video For Black Lives Matter

Chicago Sky guard Sydney Colson started a series called 60 Seconds With Syd in February, and on the most recent installment, she created a special tribute to stand with the Black Lives Matter movement. The video is simple, yet gets the message across. In the video, over 80 Black players from the league, including Colson,…

Olympian Gwen Berry Pens Powerful Open Letter: "My Protest and Sacrifice Will Not Have Been For Nothing"

At the 2019 Pan American Games, Olympian Gwen Berry won a gold medal for the hammer throw. Atop the podium, at the end of the national anthem, she bowed her head and raised a fist as a demonstration against racial injustice and police brutality in America. Olympic Fencer Race Imboden, who also won a gold…