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12-year-old Marley Dias continues to impress and make us all wish we would’ve done more with our childhood. After demanding more diversity in school reading lists, Dias’ #1000BlackGirlBooks took off. The effort saw more than 8,000 donations and resulted in books being donated by the GrassROOTS Community Foundation to far more schools than originally anticipated. As […]

The Obamas have been involved in politics for a long time. A major perk of which is a surplus of interns eager to take care of day-to-day tasks and make their lives a little bit easier while also gaining a wealth of job experience. Who said anything about that stopping now?

Cook County prosecutors decided to not press charges against Officer Robert Rialmo for shooting Qunitonio LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor Bettie Smith, 55, the day after Christmas in 2015. 

Many of the United States’ oldest institutions are rooted in white supremacy and a select few are working to establish a more welcoming and inclusive foundation. To do just that, Yale University has renamed a college that was the namesake of John C. Calhoun, the former vice president to John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson […]

Frank Ancona, the “Imperial Wizard” for a group called the “Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” was found dead over the weekend.

Protests have been sparked over multiple days in Paris and surrounding towns after a Black man was arrested, beaten and raped by four police officers. 

There’s still decency in U.S. politics after all. For the time being, President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries is blocked after a ruling from a federal appeals court, according to CNN.

The latest major business to show support for Donald Trump is being forced to answer questions from both the public and its most recognizable ambassador, Steph Curry. 

It was recently reported that Carolyn Bryant admitted that she lied when she accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of physically and verbally assaulting her in Mississippi roughly 60 years ago. With this newfound information, some of Till’s relatives are hoping a new investigation could lead to closure. 

Elizabeth Warren has had a major turnaround in regards to her public perception among liberals. Just weeks ago, she was part of a senate committee that unanimously approved Ben Carson to become the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Now, she’s become a symbol for Anti-Trump sentiment after she was silenced by Republic senators during a […]

“There are only 2 rules in the Latino family — don’t marry somebody Black and don’t park in front of our house.” That’s the joke George Lopez told at a recent show before a black woman sitting towards the front reportedly raised her middle finger towards him as a sign of her displeasure, according to […]

It appears that all of President Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments are going to be confirmed, despite clear splits down party lines and issues with the preparedness for the jobs. The latest example of just how divided the country is came as Betsy DeVos was voted in as the newest Secretary of Education, a position she’s […]