State-level marijuana legality reforms often don’t help African Americans who are frozen out of dispensary ownership. The rapper partners with scholar Erik Nielson for a new Rolling Stone essay that breaks down how to fix the disparity.
“I was arrested this week because it’s wrong for the richest nation in the history of the world to pay half its African-American workers and 60 percent of its Latino workers less than $15 an hour.”
Allen on his lawsuit against telecom giant Charter Communications: “This lawsuit was filed to provide distribution and real economic inclusion for 100 percent African American-owned media.”
A new Nielsen report says that Black millennials are closing digital literacy gaps, empowering social movements and promoting entrepreneurship—all while innovativing via digital media platforms.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re a White homeowner or a Black homeowner,” legal scholar Dorothy Brown told The Washington Post. “If you’re in a neighborhood that’s 10 percent Black, that home isn’t going to appreciate the same way it would if you picked it up and moved it to an all-White neighborhood.”
As anti-occupation and free-speech advocates decry New York City’s new executive order to punish companies and groups that boycott Israel, members of the Dream Defenders’ latest delegation to the West Bank share what they saw and learned on their trip.
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