Stephanie Cornish

3 weeks ago | afro.com | Stephanie Cornish

In the classic sci-fi movie “Minority Report,” Tom Cruise plays a cop whose “Precrime” unit uses surveillance and behavior patterns to arrest murderers before they kill. Set in the future, the movie raised tough questions about privacy, due process and how predicting criminal behavior can destroy innocent lives. But what once seemed like an action fantasy is now creeping into American classrooms.

3 weeks ago | afro.com | Stephanie Cornish

BALTIMORE (AP) — Journalism jostled with horses down the stretch, shrugged off the contact, burst through the lane and came from behind to win the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes on May 17. The odds-on favorite was bumped by Goal Oriented near the quarter pole, and it looked like another second-place finish was coming two weeks after being the runner-up to Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby.

1 month ago | afro.com | Stephanie Cornish

There’s a reason prisons are built long before they’re filled. The decision to reopen Alcatraz, floated recently by President Donald Trump and amplified on social media, isn’t just another campaign soundbite—it’s a dog whistle. It’s a chilling signal to Black communities across America that the same old playbook of fear, incarceration and racial targeting is on the table. Alcatraz is more than a symbol of America’s most notorious criminals.

1 month ago | afro.com | Stephanie Cornish

Our Creator calls us to love others and care for them by caring for the Creation on which we all depend to live, move and have our being. We all have failed to do this in the past and the Creation now cries out in wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, heat waves and more. In Africa and across the diaspora, black folk are suffering more than others.

1 month ago | afro.com | Stephanie Cornish

Michael B. Jordan is Stack, easy to smile, enigmatic to be around. Jordan is also Smoke, his more somber twin brother.