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U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman has ruled against the Trump administration’s plan to add a question on citizenship to the U.S. 2020 census. Many courts and states are following through with lawsuits challenging the question of their own.

After a 7-year-old Black girl, Jazmine Barnes, was fatally gunned down outside a Houston Walmart, police officials released video of the gunman driving a red pick up truck and are now asking the public to report any potential leads.

By Salaam Green Protest birthed out of the American south often sets the pace for revolutionary and radical campaigns for justice. While I was teaching creative drama with a group of fourth graders outside of Birmingham, Alabama, a hotbed for civil rights and the home of many justice movements, an eager fourth grader asked me […]

Kamilah Campbell, a Black high school student from Miami Gardens, has hired a lawyer after the SAT testing company told her the results of her exam were invalid.

by Loni Amor This essay contains discussions of suicidal ideation. Inspired by First Fruit festivals of Southern Africa, African-American civil rights activist and academic, the extremely problematic  Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga established Kwanzaa in 1966. Deriving from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza”, which translates loosely to “first fruits of the harvest”, Kwanzaa offers Black […]

By Tez Files Baptize me. Now that reconciliation is possible, if we’re gonna heal, let it be glorious. – Beyoncé, “Sandcastles” I must have heard Beyoncé’s “Sandcastles”a dozen times. I read all types of complexity into its lyrics. After having gone through a very difficult break-up, it was healing to sit with my emotions and […]

Mainstream conversations about online misogyny keep neglecting The Black Manosphere, and it’s because of misogynoir by Aaron Fountain On his weekly podcast, The Brother Pill, Sacramento-native and now Poland-transplant, Oshay Duke Jackson, conducts segments, interviews, and discussions about the issues faced by Black men. Occasionally, he talks about these things alone, but on most episodes […]

by Daniel Johnson Recently, University of Temple professor, author, and activist Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his post as an on-air political commentator at CNN after delivering an address at the U.N. during the organization’s marking of the upcoming 70th anniversary of its original Declaration of Human Rights, which came on the conclusion of […]

According to the Houston Chronicle, a common practice following drunk driving arrests and convictions in Texas is the implementation of various surcharges and fees due to the Texas Driver Responsibility program. This program can charge Texas drivers up to thousands of dollars for certain driving-related violations, and on Wednesday, attorneys from the Austin Community Law […]

According to the Guardian, California police indicted eight anti-fascist protesters who were violently attacked at a 2016 white nationalist rally. However, law enforcement have not charged anyone for the attacks against the anti-fascists.

According to the Washington Post, police in Hoover, Alabama originally indicated Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was the shooter in a mall after they killed the 21-year-old army veteran. The police initially told reporters outside of Riverchase Galleria that Bradford had shot a teenager during a skirmish near the food court and had wounded a 12-year-old […]

by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt On April 16th 2018, the City Council of Durham, North Carolina became the first city in the country to unanimously pass a policy statement ending police exchanges between the Durham Police Department and the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). This auspicious decision was made possible because of the Demiltarize! Durham2Palestine Campaign, a […]