Eisa Nefertari Ulen

Apr 18, 2024 | hollywoodreporter.com | Eisa Nefertari Ulen

Tense, disturbing, riveting, Alex Garland’s dystopian film Civil War examines an existential threat preying on the American sub-conscious: What would happen if the political and social divisions cleaving the United States ultimately collapse the nation into the abyss? What if the wars of rhetoric, of culture, of values, cause a series of irreparable breaks, whole states secede, and we descend into an actual war?

Aug 28, 2023 | truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn |Eisa Nefertari Ulen |Kwolanne Felix

After thousands gathered Saturday in Washington, D.C., to mark the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, we speak with Gary Younge, author of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream.

Aug 23, 2023 | truthout.org | Eisa Nefertari Ulen |Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn |Kwolanne Felix |Chris Walker

It was a day 400 years in the making. On August 5, 2023, a troop of Black bystanders walked, ran and swam to the defense of an African American riverboat co-captain. Called a “brawl” in both mainstream press and on social media platforms, the event was much more than a fight, more than a spectacle, and definitely not a free-for-all. The event that took place on a Montgomery dock of the Alabama River was a kind of reckoning.

Aug 20, 2023 | truthout.org | Bryant Furlow |Ellen Reddy |Fania Davis |Eisa Nefertari Ulen

This story was originally published by New Mexico In Depth. On a brisk February morning with snow on the ground, children arrived at Tsé Bit A’í Middle School in Shiprock, on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico. Word in the hallway was something was afoot: Substitute teachers were waiting in each classroom. The children’s 35 regular teachers were spotted, sitting in a large circle in the library. Students paused at the doorway to watch.

Aug 9, 2023 | truthout.org | Kwolanne Felix |Eisa Nefertari Ulen |Tasasha Henderson |Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

Skip to contentSkip to footerThe medical industry has a long history of using Black bodies for research without consent or compensation. After a two-year legal battle against Biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, descendants of Henrietta Lacks won a settlement over the use of their relative’s DNA. Seventy years ago, Johns Hopkins Hospital removed tissue from Lacks’s cervix without her consent as she was dying of cervical cancer.