News 2015
Jidenna on Black Lives Matter: 'It Is About Humanity And Valuing Each And Every Life'
Singers Jidenna (in blue suit) and Janelle Monae perform and protest in coordination with Stop Mass Incarceration Network on August 21, 2015 in Los Angeles, California
Over the weekend, Jidenna performed an acclaimed set at the Made in America festival. The show marked the singer's return to Philadelphia following last month's #BlackJoy protest where he appeared alongside collaborator and labelmate Janelle Monáe for what proved to be just one in a series of public actions by the label's signees to highlight and empower contemporary activism in support of black lives. Most prominently, he was among the Wondaland artists featured on protest anthem "Hell You Talmbout."
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Sometimes it's important to pause and look back before you move forward. Today is 9/11. And, I for one, need to sit with that for a minute. I need to remember what happened that day.
USCA Kicks Off Thursday Plenary, Saying #BlackLivesMatter
Cong. Maxine Waters speaks at the opening session of USCA 2015
The first day of the 2015 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) opened in Washington, D.C., on Thursday with a breakfast plenary session centered around the notion that Black Lives Matter. The conference theme, "The numbers don't lie: It's time to end disparities!" also speaks to the importance of the lives of African Americans and other people of color.
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Blacks Lack Awareness of PrEP for Preventing HIV
Eugene McCray, M.D., Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, speaks at the 2015 Black Treatment Advocates National Meeting
Leading up to the 2015 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), the Black AIDS Institute hosted the National Black PrEP Summit to raise awareness about the new treatment that some AIDS activists have called a game changer in fighting the epidemic.
2015 USCA Newsmaker DeRay Mckesson, Black Lives Matter Activist, Compares Fighting AIDS to Protest Over Policing
DeRay Mckesson, a member of the organization We The Protesters, speaks on HIV at the opening session of USCA 2015
AIDS activists fighting to end the epidemic in the Black community can take cues from the protests over police violence and the killing of unarmed Black men, says DeRay Mckesson, a prominent leader associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.