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  The following post originally appeared on Slate under the title, “Where I’m From: How a trip to Kenya changed the way I think about the terms African-American and black American.” By: Aisha Harris One of the first times I recall being asked the question “Where are you from?” was also one of the first […]

Renisha McBride would have needed to consume 10 to 11 shots of vodka in an hour to get her blood-alcohol level to when it was when she lost her life on a Dearborn Heights, Michigan porch. At least that’s what former Chief Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Werner Spitz told jurors during testimony in Theodore […]

Alumni of the country’s oldest historically black private university are fighting to keep the institution up and running. Wilberforce University was founded in 1856. So far graduates have committed to raise $2 million in cash donations to keep the southwestern Ohio school going. 

  ESPN has suspended outspoken sportscaster Stephen A. Smith for remarks the television host made about domestic violence on Friday. Smith appears on the network’s show “First Take.” In addition to being suspended from the television show, Smith is also banned from making appearances on ESPN Radio for one week. 

  Donald Sterling has lost a court battle to his wife in an effort to stop her from selling the Los Angeles Clippers to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Shelly Sterling was awarded a sweeping victory in a tentative oral decision handed down by Judge Michael Levanas, who rejected all of Donald Sterling’s arguments in the […]

The following post originally appeared on the Huffington Post under the title, “Black-Owned Businesses Are Quietly Powering Detroit’s Resurgence, But No One’s Talking About It.” By: Kate Abby-Lambertz Detroit will mark the first anniversary of its bankruptcy filing this Friday, and across the country,people are watching the city to see how it has survived the upheaval.

The NYPD is investigating whether one of its officers put 27-year old Rosan Miller in a chokehold. Miller is seventh months pregnant. The altercation was video-taped and resulted in the arrest of Miller’s brother and husband.

According to a report released by the Nielsen Company, Asians keep a dollar in their community 120 times longer than blacks. The report, “The State of the African American Consumer,” takes a look at the spending habits of blacks in the country.

You would think that most of a Historically Black Colleges and University’s (HBCUs) student population would mainly consist of African-American students. But there are some HBCUs where blacks make up just a small amount of the student body population. Bluefield State College is one of them. 

A former Florida school bus driver was caught hurling racist epithets about black students during a rant on a cell phone video. For 10 years, Pamela Michener had been working with the Sarasota school district as a bus driver before resigning in May. 

Emojis have changed how we communicate emotions via text and social media during conversations. The ongoing complaint has been that the popular emojis designed by Apple and other major corporations do not reflect the diversity of the world. Well one former NASA employee has changed that. 

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced 50 years ago, but like most reports reveal, little has changed in terms of the economic status of blacks in the country. In fact, a new report by the National Women’s Law Center, reveals that black women earn just 62 cents to a white […]