Police no longer trusted to make routine traffic stops
Philadelphia City Council voted 14-2 to approve the Driving Equality Bill, an ordinance prohibiting police from stopping drivers for minor traffic violations, which was signed into law by Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (Oct. 2021)….
Education reform must directly support Black youth to advance community
The public school system has continued to fail Black and brown communities since the United States’ education system was first integrated in 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education), leaving Black students and urban schools in…
Black millennials using spirituality to reclaim religion
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Our journey to Black hair liberation
Since its conception the United States has discriminated against Black people in every way imaginable, including attacks on Black hair; the negative rhetorics around Black hair have residual impacts on the self-confidence and treatment of…
Culture absent responsibility is incomplete
Black people being the culture means Black people wield an innate duty to be responsible for furthering Black people because our prosperity is dependent on this collective obligation. By Shayler Richmond Black people…
Physical chemist demonstrates how to leverage academia for a greater good
Physical chemist Dr. Jalaal Hayes grew up in Philadelphia, as a Black teenage boy growing up in the inner city he became drawn to illicit activities in his neighborhood, but before he went down a…
Bold Culture is showing modern professionals how to better utilize and support diversity
Ahmad Barber and Darren Martin Jr. founded Bold Culture, a communication firm that focuses on providing diversity and representation within advertising spaces and throughout the workforce. By Antonio Cooper Bold Culture is a…
We're eating the rich — giving 'Rich’ fresh purpose
By TRF Dear Rich Fam, Eating the rich and giving ‘Richness’ fresh purpose helps to create space for everyone. Centering Blackness includes centering Black wealth, eating the rich helps to ensure the wealth we are…
The birth of the Rich Family
By TRF Dear Rich Fam, The Rich Family is a collective where being informed meets intentional care and we actively create space for honest connections and storytelling. We define intentional care as anti-privilege, anti-ignorance,…
