A 12-year-old gospel singer named Keedron Bryant has written an original song about the heartbreaking realities of being a young black man. During a time of nationwide protests and unrest over police brutality and racial injustice, the boy's song has become a rallying cry. Bryant posted the video on...

Stoneman Douglas student activist Emma González led an emotional, prolonged silence at the March for our Lives, equal in duration to the shooter's rampage. "Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job," she said.

Lee Daniels, director of 2009's Precious, sat down with Larry King to discuss, among other things, his new movie The Butler and how his perspective as a gay, black man influenced the film's focus on the civil rights movement. Later, Daniels shared his own story of growing up gay and the continued st...

This November, Americans will have the opportunity to embody Lewis’ spirit, take up his mantle and carry on his enduring legacy by exercising their right to vote. John Lewis was a heroe of the civil rights movement.

In Spring 2018, five speakers selected from the Collaboratory Network--Gamal Palmer, Carine Warsawski, Rabbi Lori Shapiro, Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, and Arya Marvazy--worked with ELI Talks to hone and effectively present their own stories of risk-taking at a storytelling event for the May 2018 gat...

On Saturday, September 3, 2011 at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles, supporters danced to the iconic tune of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” in support of “Talk To Me,” The Trevor Project’s Campaign for Conversation in recognition of National Suicide Prevention Week. “If you need me, call me. No mat

A mysterious and intense X-ray source near the black hole shines onto the surface layers of the accretion disk, causing iron atoms to radiate characteristic emission -- what astronomers call the iron K line -- at about 6,000 to 7,000 electron volts. The inner part of the disk is orbiting the black h...

How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there. Lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy. Where they prey on stars. Or swallow planets whole....

This film is being released at the14th anniversary of Patrik-Ian Polk’s landmark rom-com, Noah’s Arc: Jumping The Broom. By centering a predominantly Black, gay cast, the film felt downright revolutionary in 2008—and it still feels just as groundbreaking today.

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