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If you saw any coverage of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and around the country, on Monday night, you probably saw footage of rapper Q-Tip marching in the streets of New York. Dressed in a black hoodie, Q-Tip rallied protesters in Times Square, leading chants of "Hands up! Don't shoot!" throughout the evening. The 44-year-old artist stopped by HuffPost Live to talk about the protests, and the deeper impact of them outside of Michael Brown's death. "I was just motivated. I had to get out there ... At that point, I wasn't an artist, I wasn't a musician or anything. I was just a man. A black man in this country," he told host Marc Lamont HIll. "We're not going ...

What does it take to get to the top -- without losing your center? Our “Making It Work” series profiles successful, dynamic women who are standouts in their fields, peeling back the "hows" of their work and their life, taking away lessons we can all apply to our own. Laci Green is only 25 years old, but she has a YouTube channel with over 1 million subscribers, a partnership with Planned Parenthood and a new MTV web series. The sex-positive video blogger, peer sex educator and YouTube celebrity is based in the San Francisco Bay area, where she created her YouTube channel Sex+ during her first year at UC ...

The life of Marion Barry Jr. so eerily parallels the HBCU narrative, so closely resembles the tragedy and triumph of our institutions and culture, that his death almost feels like the precursor to our own culture wake. Forget that Barry, a descendant of Mississippi sharecroppers, catapulted himself to becoming one of the most visible local political figures in American history. Forget that his time as a student at LeMoyne-Owen College and Fisk University forged his identity as an organizer and nationalistic visionary. It was his time in the gutter, in jail, and the pits of his own existence that make him such a fascinating case study in the black...

Since the announcement of a St. Louis County grand jury’s decision to not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown on Monday evening, thousands of Americans have responded via protests across the country. Following a night of more than 40 arrests in Ferguson, one video broadcasts the repercussions of what could potentially happen to some demonstrators. Yesterday during a segment on HuffPost Live, activist & organizer DeRay Mckesson captured footage from the scene of a protest in Missouri where a female protester is carried away by police officers. Watch the video above. More On Ferguson From HuffPost: Photographic Evidence Reveals | 'First Year Law Student Could Have Done Better Job'...

I don't know what to tell my 27-year-old son to do when the police next accost him. Put your hands up? Surrender? Or keep running until you are out of reach of the bullets that are sure to follow? I so wanted to believe that this time would be different; that this time a black man would get the benefit of justice. But I was wrong. There would be no indictment of Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown. For the months since the shooting, I have been a lonely voice among my church, friends, family and colleagues, expressing a firm faith in ...

Black lives matter. Despite what we're seeing in media headlines, the actions of our courts and legal system and police departments everywhere -- black lives matter and black stories help shed light on history of race in America and beyond. Stories and storytelling is one of the strongest ways to share diverse narratives within our communities and beyond. Next week, the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) will kick-off its annual appeal to create a fund to support black stories and black filmmakers. We know that there are stories out there that need the support of this 35-year-old organization. We know that people need...

More than three months after the death of Michael Brown, a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot the unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9. On that summer day and for many weeks after, the Ferguson, Missouri, community had erupted in protests, both peaceful and sometimes violent, that were heard around the nation. On Monday and Tuesday nights, protests (again, some violent) drew heavy media attention, leaving no escape from the reality of more racially charged conflict around a young man’s death. Here are a few numbers, some that might have foreshadowed the latest protests and others that show the power of people's despair: 110 The number of days that protesters have demonstrated in the St...

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n his new movie, Top Five, out Dec. 5, Chris Rock plays a movie star whose already-fading career is about to crumble on the day he’s being interviewed by a savvy New York Times reporter ­(Rosario Dawson) about his comedy career, his ambitious new Oscar-bait movie about the Haitian revolution, and his imminent nuptials to a reality star. She accompanies him to his old neighborhood, where he and his friends kill time arguing about their top five rappers.

I was 21 when I consciously made the choice in my heart and mind: racism doesn't apply to me. My outcomes are my own. I convinced myself that by sheer willpower I could make myself the exception to the rule. There were examples of people who've done this; more by the day. I saw no reason why I couldn't be one of them. In witnessing the current outcome of the Ferguson trial, I am now more acutely aware of the context and atmosphere in which my exceptionality must occur. This was brought home in a very personal way earlier this year when two of...