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The Problems With Zoe Saldana’s Casting As Nina Simone Are More Than Skin Deep

Nine Republicans Vote ‘No’ to Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou

Berta Caceres, Honduran Activist, Assassinated on Wednesday

‘Bad Boys 3’ Is Reportedly Going To Happen

Report: LAPD More Likely To Shoot Blacks and People With Mental Conditions

Watch Young People Explain What It Means To ‘Get Free’ [VIDEO]

Hip-Hop Is The Most Streamed Genre In The World

24-Year-Old Black Raleigh Man Fatally Shot In The Back By Police

Clinton Tells Young Black Woman “Well, why don’t you go run for something, then?”

Gunman Targets Office Of Black Woman Running For Sheriff in Texas

Illinois High School Performs Mock Slave Auction Skit

Black Trans Man Fatally Shot In Louisiana Residence

30 Black Students Ejected From Donald Trump Rally in Valdosta, Georgia

Mya Taylor is the First Out Trans Actress to Win Major Film Award

Did We Do Enough To Save Chicago State University? Not At All.

Chicago Library of Valuable Black Literature Is In Danger

Salt Lake City Teen Shot By Police While Carrying a Broomstick

It Matters That Melissa Harris-Perry Won’t Be On MSNBC

SUNY Albany Students To Be Charged After Investigation of Bus Altercation

ICYMI: Mark Zuckerberg Defends ‘Black Lives Matter’ In Letter To Facebook Staffers

Why I’m not surprised there was a violent KKK rally down the street from Disneyland

Florida State Fraternity Suspended For Slavery-Themed Hazing Accusations

50-Year-Old Woman Dies In Jail After 27 Hours Without Water

St. Louis Third Grader Can’t Go Back To His School Because He’s Black

Killer Mike: “The only person I have the conscience to vote for is Bernard Sanders”

Mississippi Declares April Confederate Heritage Month

Iowa Lawmakers Want Kids To Be Able To Use Handguns

White House To Screen BET Documentary On Homophobia In Black Churches

U Houston Asks Faculty To Change Methods Due To New Campus Carry Law

We have to stop the murders of trans people in the United States

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