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A professor at the University of Michigan is responsible for the closure of a historically women’s-only lounge at Michigan State University. 

Baltimore County Police arrived at an apartment to arrest Korryn Gaines, 23, for traffic violations. Tragically, the situation quickly escalated and left Gaines dead and her 5-year-old with a gunshot wound from police. 

On Monday, a coalition of organizations involved in the Movement for Black Lives released a list of specific policy demands to the public, entitled “A Vision for Black Lives.”   Fifty organizations from all over the world came together over the past year to formulate and write the demands, including the Black Youth Project 100, […]

Ava Duvernay’s documentary, The 13th, will be the opening film at the New York Film Festival’s (NYFF) 54th Festival. It’s the first non-fiction film to open the event in the NYFF’s history; if you haven’t already, let us toast to Duvernay’s #BlackGirlMagic. I want to take it a step further though, I want to uplift […]

Last week, federal courts declared North Carolina, Kansas, and Wisconsin state voting laws to be  unconstitutional and guilty of contributing to the disenfranchisement of low income and black voters. The North Carolina law, particularly, was found to to violate racial discrimination in voting, as Republican state legislators enacted the laws specifically after receiving data on […]

Yesterday, a story that drew tons of attention on mainstream and minority-run news media was about Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine’s church home. It wasn’t because there was anything special about his church, St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond, VA. Rather, it was simply because his church happens to not be composed of only White people. It’s […]

The options have been laid out for us. The past two weeks have given us an eye and earful of presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The different tones of the conventions have demonstrated a deep divide between the two parties, and the Republican and Democratic platforms suggest very little tangible overlap between the […]

By now, stories of Pokemon Go players ending up in all kinds of awkward situations have surfaced, including strolls through mine fields and discovering dead bodies. But a University of Iowa football player recently found himself “”with four gun barrels staring me in the face,” according to his Facebook account of the experience. Body cam […]

After it was determined that Chicago’s Southside would be home to Barack Obama’s Presidential Library, the choice came between two parks. The Chicago Tribune has announced that Jackson Park will be the home for the guaranteed tourist attraction.

Dr. Dre was briefly detained in a patrol car in front of his home this Monday morning after a caller claimed he was carrying a gun, according to CNN. Dre told authorities that he asked the driver of a vehicle that was blocking his driveway to move. The driver reportedly did so, but then returned, prompting […]

Nine mothers whose black children were murdered by police took the stage at the Democratic National Convention last night to endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. For me, seeing these mothers on the stage elicited joy, as black women are lifted up on behalf of their children killed by the state. But […]

After years of gaining a reputation for being politically passive, Michael Jordan penned a letter about the killings of black people and the targeting of police officers, which was published on The Undefeated. Some are wondering if it is too little too late.