July 2026

Volume 6 · Issue 7

​July considers Black male identity and representation through art, publishing history and Joseph Varney Baker’s pioneering PR career. It also covers a police officer’s fatal rescue, sports-media shakeups, family litigation and the pressures of online speech.

• Art of Black Men: New Exhibit by 5x5 Baltimore

• Black Cop Drowns Saving White Fiancée

• Why We Post Pictures of Beautiful Women: A Brief History of Black Men’s Magazines

• Malcolm Jamal Warner’s Widow Sues His Mom for $1.2 Million

• Joseph Varney Baker: America’s First Black PR Agent

• Ryan Clark Fired by ESPN

• Newspeak, Algospeak and the Freedom of Demonetization

• Marcellus Wiley Arrested, Wife Files for Divorce, Claims Abuse