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What Critiques of Normani Reveal about Racist Expectations of Black Women Artists

What Critiques of Normani Reveal about Racist Expectations of Black Women Artists

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – DECEMBER 1,2018: Normani Kordei attends the 2018 WiLD 94.9’s FM’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California – Image By Brooklyn White, Bitch Media Music critics and listeners alike give Black pop stars hell—especially when they’re women. Jarring criticisms, unfair comparisons, and impossible standards plague the […]

Prime Minister of Barbados Hon. Mia Mottley delivers the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture

Prime Minister of Barbados Hon. Mia Mottley delivers the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — GENEVA, Switzerland â€“ Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivers the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, 10 September, 2019. I am humbled to have been invited to deliver the 16th lecture to honor this great development thinker. I am also deeply humbled to […]

Governor Cuomo Signs Weprin Sponsored 9/11 Worker’s Disability Benefits Bill

Governor Cuomo Signs Weprin Sponsored 9/11 Worker’s Disability Benefits Bill

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Signs A8278 alongside Assemblyman David I. Weprin, Senators Andrew Gounardes, James Gaughran & Joseph P. Addabbo and Assemblymembers Peter J. Abbate Jr., Stacey Pheffer Amato & Karin Reyes, as well as Patrick Lynch, President of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, and the family of the late Det. Luis Alvarez. QUEENS, NEW YORK â€“ […]