By Olympic Gold Medalist Simone Manuel, Special to The Undefeated
“Hey, Mom, where are all the people who look like me?”
I was 12 years old, and for the first time in my young life, I had begun to realize I...
Monday, LeBron James celebrated what he calls the greatest moment of his life with the opening of his I Promise elementary school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. The school is geared specifically toward at-risk youth — many of...
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott told reporters during a July 27 training camp news conference that he opposed protesting racial injustice during the national anthem. He staked out this territory after Stephen Jones, the team’s executive vice president...
Photos by Alex Chung for The Undefeated
BlerDCon 2018 is the second installment of the annual comic and cosplay convention specifically organized for people of color. Black nerds (or “blerds”) and other people of color from across the country converged...
I don’t remember when it started. But I’ll always remember when she called for the end, in writing. As far as I know, only the two of us knew. It went on for months, mainly at school but sometimes...
By Kelley D. Evans, The Undefeated
Yolett McPhee-McCuin set a goal in her mind. She wanted to become a Final Four coach.
“And I meant it,” she said. “I gave myself 15 years … to get this thing done.”
Her new role...
If Spike Lee’s Malcolm X was cinematic poetry, his latest film, BlacKkKlansman, is a desperate, shrieking, ever-so-clearly enunciated howl.
Lee’s latest film has been much anticipated since its debut earlier this year at Cannes, where it won the Grand Prix...
1993. The year Jurassic Park, the first film in the original trilogy, came out. That’s the last time a major Hollywood studio released a movie with an all Asian-American cast. There hasn’t been a big-budget movie starring Asian-Americans, based...
By Lonnae O'Neal, The Undefeated
On the first morning of the US Open at Flushing Meadows, it won’t matter whether or not Serena Williams shows up in a catsuit looking like a superhero the way she did at the French...
The 1991 film The Five Heartbeats features an electric, memorable and tearful church scene that film executives were asked to cut. Actor, comedian and dynamic filmmaker Robert Townsend spills that and more in his new documentary Making the Five...