Sitemap - 2022 - The North Star with Shaun King
5 Triumphs of the Black Community in 2022: California Reparations & Congressional Medals
TNS Weekly Recap 12/11 - 12/17/22
The History of How Suicide Has Been Weaponized In & Against the Black Community
TNS Weekly Recap 12/4 - 12/10/22
To Attend An HBCU Or To Not - That Is the Question Black Gen Z's Must Answer
50% off of EVERY SINGLE ITEM until we sell out
TNS Weekly Recap 11/27 - 12/03/22
Legalized Lynchings: Kevin Johnson, Davel Chinn, & The Uneven Toll of Death Row on Black People
TNS Weekly Recap 11/20 - 11/26/22
The Fight For Georgia: $1 Million Police Violence Settlement Underscores Senate Runoff
TNS Weekly Recap 11/13 - 11/19/22
Making Sense of the Elections That Just Took Place: Here Are the Results You Need to Know
TNS Weekly Recap 10/31 - 11/06/22
On the Passing of Takeoff & The State of Rap: How White Teens Have Increased Violence in the Genre
TNS Weekly Recap 10/24 - 10/30/22
The Black History They Buried: Reverse Freedom Rides, & How They Still Exist Today
TNS Weekly Recap 10/17 - 10/22/22
On "The Woman King": White People Love Making "Black Power" Slave Narratives
The Thievery of Black Joy: Eric André Sues Atlanta Police Over Airport Drug Search
TNS Weekly Recap 10/3 - 10/8/22
Kanye West, Candace Owens, & the Paradox of African-American Celebrities
Can you actually name a single victim of police brutality from 2022?
The Black History They Buried: Robert Frazier & The Origin of “Negro” College Mascots
Why you should consider becoming a subscriber to The North Star today
TNS Weekly Recap 9/12 - 9/17/22
On The Tragic Death of Rapper PnB Rock: Stop Blaming His Partner & Start Looking At the System
Queen Elizabeth of England Is Gone, & The Black Diaspora Has a Lot to Say
Black Exodus: Tyler, the Creator, Magic Carpets, and Forming Footsteps
TNS Weekly Recap 8/29 - 9/3/22
Learning our History, & Amassing Generational Wealth: Good News Stories From Communities of Color.
Inflation is Obvious, Segregation is Subtle: A Black Girl’s Way Home - By Ava Emilione
Spending a week with family before school begins for the kids. See you next week.
TNS Weekly Recap 8/15 - 8/20/22
TNS Weekly Recap 8/8 - 8/13/22
Street Gang or Group of Black People - According to the RICO Act, Courts See Little Difference
It's WILD to see white conservatives now calling to defund the police...that are investigating them
Brittney Griner & The Commodification of Black Women in America
Tell me everything you can about Kevin Sheehan of the New York Post
TNS Weekly Recap: 7/24- 7/30/2022
Black Exodus: Evidence That It’s OK From the Other Side
TNS Weekly Recap: 7/18-7/22/2022
Let's all support our brilliant writer and editor, Donney Rose, in his next endeavor, OK?
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: How Safe is Your Community Amid This Record-Setting Heatwave?
On the Un-Severed Head of American White Supremacy
TNS Weekly Recap 7/11-7/15/2022
Gun Control Is Historically Racist. So Why Are Black People Buying More Guns Than Ever Before?
Carolyn Bryant Donham [Also] Claims Victimhood in Her Memoir About the Murder of Emmett Till
TNS Weekly Recap: 7/4-7/8/2022
The Come Up: Documenting the Newest Generation of Black & Brown Artists
White Supremacist Killers Benefit From the Moral Debate Surrounding Capital Punishment
Community Conversation: Has American Life Worsened Since the End of Social Distancing?
TNS In the Neighborhood: Women of Color on Roe V. Wade
TNS Weekly Recap: 6/27-7/1/2022
We Outside! Black Families are Taking to Camping in Record Numbers to Rest, Retreat and Heal
NYC Pride Through the Eyes of Those Who Found Joy in Spite of America Being America...
TNS Weekly Recap: 6/20-6/24/2022
A Miranda Rights Remix Ghost-Written by the Supreme Court
Introducing The North Star Publishing and our very first book, Lemons and Stones
Black people deserve a day off. It's as simple as that.
TNS Weekly Recap: 6/13-6/17/2022
Hate Don't Live There Anymore, Hope Does — On the Reclamation of a Former KKK Headquarters
White Peoples' Original Name For Gun Violence; “Black-on-Black Crime”
TNS Weekly Recap: 6/6-6/10/2022
White Domestic Terrorism is Treated Like Political Theater
Racist Museum Menus and the Trouble With Recognizing Microaggressions as the Dangers they Are
For POC Thinking of Leaving America For Good: Here Are Some Who Already Have
Why You Should Subscribe to The North Star with Shaun King
TNS Weekly Recap: 5/30-6/3/2022
The Audacity of Payton Gendron's Not-Guilty Plea in the Wake of Ending 10 Black Lives
For People of Color Thinking of Leaving America For Good: Me Too
TNS Weekly Recap: 5/23-5/27/2022
Why Nothing Gets Done — America's Culture of Violence and the Ghosts of Red Summer
I am Tired of Writing about American Carnage.
On the Need to Get the Language Right When Talking Racial Justice.
TNS Weekly Recap: 5/15-5/20/2022
Why The Victims of the Hate Crime in Buffalo Aren’t On Gen Z Timelines Nearly Enough
The Only Politics is Blood — On Replacement Theory in America
When Feminists Forget Us: Women of Color In Today’s Image of the Feminist Movement
Good News Stories From Communities of Color: A Caribbean Princess
I Know Why The (Un)Caged Bird Sings a Prison Song and Other Vestiges of Jim Crow Louisiana.
TNS Weekly Recap: 5/1-5/6/2022
Mixed In Media: How Mixed Race People Are Portrayed in Film & TV
The Case for Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations Lives On
Book Bans, Bad Bills, & Why the Black and LGBT+ Community Need to Come Together Now More Than Ever
TNS Weekly Recap: 4/25-4/29/2022
America, The Country of Contradiction
Will the Latest Attempt at Police Reform Actually Offer the Transparency its Advertising?
The Oppressors' Relationship With "Freedom of Speech" - Friend or Foe?
An Open Letter to NYC Housing Insecurity
TNS Weekly Recap: 4/18-4/22/2022
Community Conversation: What Should We Be Doing About Police Brutality Against Black Children?
It’s Always Felt Like the World Was Ending and Other Lessons I Learned From Spike Lee
TNS Weekly Recap: 4/11-4/15/2022
PSA: Black Women it’s Fair to ‘Screen’ Calls for Justice.
Patrick Lyoya Was Executed in a Land Where His Family Sought Refuge from Violence
Art Imitates...White Privilege
TNS Weekly Recap: 4/4-4/8/2022
It's Funny How Justice is Never in the Budget...
There Still is No Hierarchy of Oppression
TNS Weekly Recap: 3/28-4/1/2022
Between a Rock and A Hard Hand: Chris Rock’s Hairy History with Black People
For Marginalized People: Why Do We Carry So Much Shame?
Why White Men Like to Be the Devil…’s Advocate, As Explained To Me By a White Man
Every “N**ga Moment” a Black Person Has is NOT the Burden of All of Black America.
TNS Weekly Recap: 3/21-3/25/2022
When Keepin' It Colonizer Goes Wrong: On William and Kate's Not-So-Warm Caribbean Welcome
Why Our Praise of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson Isn’t the Support We Think It Is
Justice is Hardly Ever on Time but Black Death Never Has to Wait.
TNS Weekly Recap: 3/14-3/18/2021
Black Police Officers Trying To Take Down the System From Within the Force
America is All the Way Back Outside. But Did We Learn Anything from Isolation?
In Eternal Memory of Breonna...In Forever Solidarity with Tamika
TNS Weekly Recap: 3/7-3/11/2022
Community Conversation: How Do You Define Representation?
The 72-year-old War: DEI, CRT and the Integrating of American Education
On the Mysterious Conditions Surrounding the Death of Johnny Lee Perry in Montana
TNS Weekly Recap: 2/28-3/4/2022
A Lament For Mixed Kids: Understanding America Through The Erasure of Its Bi-Racial Citizens
Black Americans Believe in Heaven More than Every Other Racial Group. There are Reasons Why that Is
(At Least) 7 Black Women Whose Image Should Be the Universal Logo of Women's History Month.
Our Ancestors' Legacy: Reflecting On Voting Rights This Black History Month
TNS Weekly Recap: 2/21-2/25/2022
Stop Making Jokes About Ukraine and Start Seeing It As the War Zone It Has Become
Good News Stories From Communities of Color: A List of Brand New Black-Owned Businesses
Photo Essay: Clarifying What Lincoln REALLY Believed about Black Folks on Presidents' Day 2022
TNS Weekly Recap: 2/14-2/18/2022
Black Twitter Responds to Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch Defending Corporate Racism
Travis and Greg McMichael Talked Like Racists Talk and Their Words Informed Their Actions.
These Songs of Freedom Live featuring Yamin Semali
When it Comes to Fighting for Our Voting Rights, Have We Lost Our Spunk?
TNS Weekly Recap: 2/7-2/11/2022
The Unraveling of Black Voting Rights & The Strings Conservatives Continue To Pull
C.O.R.E. Values: A Tribute to the Freedom Rides of 1961
Joe Rogan Uses the N-Word, the Sky Is Blue, And Other Facts I Thought We Already Knew
TNS Weekly Recap: 1/31-2/4/2022
To Be Black is to Always Pay the Empire's Poll Tax
Black Futures Month: What It Means & Where The History Went
The NFL Never Really Attempted to Hide its Racism. It Just Doubled Down on Gaslighting Black Fans
Lies My Country Told Me: Great Lies and Voting Rights
John Bel Edwards' Silence on the Police Killing of Ronald Greene is Rising to the Surface
Why Don’t We March When A Police Officer is Murdered?
TNS Weekly Recap: 1/24-1/28/2022
The 'Fine Print' of Democracy or America's Attempt at READING Black Voters for Filth.
Bars on the Page vs Bars Inside a Cage: On Legislation Efforts to Decriminalize Rap Lyrics
99 Problems, How to Solve 1: Fixing the Black Teacher Shortage
TNS Weekly Recap: 1/17-1/21/2022
Broken Promises: How Generation Z Refuses To Be Disappointed By Politicians
The Genius of Gary Chambers’ Pro-Marijuana Legalization Campaign Ad
Police Are Using Social Media to Control the Narrative, Here’s What That Looks Like
TNS Weekly Recap: 1/10-1/14/22
Mother Maya Makes the Tail End of a Quarter and America Thinks it an Even Toss
On The Ghost of the Three-Fifths Compromise and its Impact on the Battle Over Voting Rights
TNS Weekly Recap: 1/3-1/7/2022
Good News Stories From Communities of Color: Amassing Our Own Generational Wealth
The Tale of a Black Photographer Capturing the January 6 Insurrection
A Look Back On the Landmark Police Accountability of 2021 - Will It Continue?