- 1. 'Abbott Elementary''s Sheryl Lee Ralph Makes History with Super Bowl Performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ...
- (TV)
- ... season opener games since the 2020 season, in response to protests in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The NFL’s decision to include the anthem has elicited controversy, ...
- Created on 13 February 2023
- 2. Listen to Beyonce's New Single, "Break My Soul" Featuring Queen of Bounce Music Big Freedia, Off Upcoming Album "Renaissan
- (Music)
- ... award. In 2020, following George Floyd’s death, she dropped a surprise single “Black Parade”, in tribute. She released “Be Alive”, a standout of the King Richard soundtrack, in 2021, which earned Knowles ...
- Created on 16 June 2022
- 3. Legendary Comedian and Voice Over Artist Debra Wilson Gets Serious In Latest Role of Death Doula, in New Film, "Moon Manor" ...
- (Movies)
- ... Black Lives Matter Movement, and the LGBTQ movement...and the movement that really sprang up after [the murder of] George Floyd, began the dialogues and the conversations and the change within the entertainment ...
- Created on 24 March 2022
- 4. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
- (Entertainment)
- ... wave of [publishing] hires set to pick up where the reckoning left off.” That “reckoning” was the shift in the cultural zeitgeist that came in response to the police killing of George Floyd, and included ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 5. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- The tragic and senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery coupled with the rise in Asian American hate crimes amidst a literary censorship of voices of color; not only sparked ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 6. Louise Erdrich, Poet and Children’s Book Author, Discusses Her New Novel "The Sentence," a Modern-Day Ghost Story, and Gives BUST a Peek Inside Her Practice ...
- (Books)
- ... and November 2020 and it incorporates both the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. Did you feel an urgency to finish while these events were still fresh? I’m an obsessively lapsed Catholic, so my ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 7. Inside Job: Rosa Brooks Wanted To Shed Light On Problems In Policing—So She Became A Cop
- (Books)
- ... at Georgetown and driving her kids around the Virginia suburbs. But a sense of subversion infiltrated her days. So, in the polarized period between the election of Donald Trump and the murder of George ...
- Created on 21 September 2021
- 8. Japanese Rock Band CHAI, Serves Up Food For Thought, on Lockdown Inspired Latest Album "Wink
- (Music)
- ... things.” Including the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted across the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death. “I had never seen that before on TV,” YUUKI says. “I was shocked and concerned, but ...
- Created on 19 July 2021
- 9. In The Wake Of The Vanessa Guillén and Asia Graham Cases, Here's What Is Being Done To Address Sex Crimes in the U.S. Militar
- (Feminism)
- ... leaders. But the issue has recently gained urgency among national leaders due to factors including the #MeToo movement, the call to expand racial diversity among military leaders in the wake of the George ...
- Created on 14 April 2021
- 10. Fashion Nova's $1 Million "Women On Top" Campaign Demonstrates How The Brand Can't Stop Exploiting Black Wo
- (Feminism)
- ... in response to the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor (among others), Fashion Nova’s silence concerning issues of racial justice was loud and clear. It wasn’t until the widely-popular fashion ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 11. Queen Beyoncé Conquers The Recording Academy With A Historic 28 Grammy Awards
- (Music)
- ... amidst last year’s Black Lives Matter uprisings in response to the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade (among others). “As an artist I believe it's my job, and all of our jobs, ...
- Created on 15 March 2021
- 12. Social Justice Illustrator Shirien Damra Re-envisions A Better Future Through Art: BUST Interview
- (Arts)
- ... similar portraits for Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, two Black Americans who were killed by police. “Throughout history, we have seen victims of anti-Black violence demonized in the media as some kind ...
- Created on 13 March 2021
- 13. Beebe Gallini's Newest Video Offers A Heaping Dose Of Joy: Video Premier
- (Music)
- ... the band bartered services with area creatives. “The photos were shot within a mile of where three of us live, where the George Floyd uprising was felt along University Avenue and many windows are still ...
- Created on 26 February 2021
- 14. How Has Anna Wintour Reportedly "Sidelined and Tokenized" People of Color at Vogue? New Exposé Reveals a Toxic Workplac
- (Style)
- ... came after an email sent by Wintour to the company on June 4, in the wake of Black Lives Matter demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd. In the email, Wintour wrote “I want to say plainly ...
- Created on 27 October 2020
- 15. Exclusive Interview with Pioneering Educator Jane Elliott: Teaching and Understanding Race In 2020
- (Feminism)
- ... to Minneapolis, following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Riah Milton, and more. In response, the Internet buzzed with viral anti-racist videos and bestselling-book lists about race. Rapper ...
- Created on 16 October 2020
- 16. When Mickey Guyton Sings, We Listen
- (Music)
- ... just days after George Floyd’s murder. One of the most poignant lines in the song, directed at the country music elite and their fans, says, “If you think we live in the land of the free, you should try ...
- Created on 18 September 2020
- 17. And The Winner Is... Naomi Osaka
- (Entertainment)
- ... Each mask bore the name of a Black person killed by the police in the United States; their names are Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Philando Castile and Tamir ...
- Created on 14 September 2020
- 18. Designer Aurora James Calls On Major Retailers to Make 15 Percent Pledge to Black Businesses
- (Style)
- When it comes to true racial justice, making one-time donations to bail funds and posting black squares on Instagram has proven not to be enough. Following the viral murder of George Floyd, people all ...
- Created on 01 September 2020
- 19. Today Is The 65th Anniversary of Emmett Till's Lynching—Days After The Shooting of Jacob Blak
- (Feminism)
- ... today, as we are still seeing violence against innocent black men like Jacob Blake and George Floyd and the heroization of violent white men, like Breonna Taylor’s murderers—who still haven’t been charged—or ...
- Created on 28 August 2020
- 20. Women In Sports Are On Strike In Support of Black Lives Matter
- (Feminism)
- The Black Lives Matter protests were ignited earlier this year following the death of George Floyd, and the protests have started again after the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, ...
- Created on 27 August 2020
