According to a new report, juveniles sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole are subject to socioeconomic and racial disparities, corrections policies that inhibit rehabilitation, and harsher punishments than comparable adults. Is this JUSTICE?
Since I was a little a brown girl, I have always secretly wanted to save the world. Yes, the whole big world. To say the least, I was utterly enthralled with movies like Indian Jones and the last Crusade to the point of obscene dissidence to the 80s generational black-uplift narrative of being a lawyer […]
President Obama has officially announced that he’s supports marriage equality. How do you think this will impact his reelection prospects? Do you support same-sex marriage?
Video footage of a brutal beating of a young black male at the hands of Houston police officers has community members outraged. Though he’d clearly surrendered, four police officers are caught on tape relentlessly punching and kicking 18 year-old Chad Holley.
Yesterday, thirteen people were criminally charged in the homicide of former Florida A&M University (FAMU) drum major, Robert Champion. Champion’s family was hoping for more serious charges. What do you think; were the charges too lax?
Philadelphia’s “A Blueprint for Transforming Philadelphia’s Public Schools,” is a sweeping overhaul of Philly’s predominantly black public school system. 64 schools will be closed by 2017; 40% of students will be in charter schools. Is the goal to educate our youth, or misguide and inevitably fail them?
Miami-Dade Fire Department official Brian Beckmann is under investigation for facebook messages published last Wednesday that blame “Trayvon Martin situations” on “shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents.” Does Beckmann deserve to be fired for his facebook post?
I have beef with Brittney Griner. It’s not because the Baylor University women’s basketball team she leads beat Notre Dame in the women’s NCAA Division 1 championship a couple of weeks ago, and I like an underdog–even if it is Notre Dame. It’s not because my beloved Tennessee Lady Volunteers were one of Baylor’s casualties […]
Last Friday, two white Tulsa, Oklahoma residents went on a murderous rampage in a black section of the city, shooting five people, killing three of them. Police and FBI officials say it is too early to call this incident a hate crime; do you agree?
The circumstances surrounding Wisconsin youth Bo Morrison’s tragic death has drawn comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case, and outrage from community members. Morrison was shot by Adam Kind, whose actions are protected under Wisconsin’s controversial “Castle Doctrine.”
18 year-old Ervin Jefferson was shot and killed last Saturday night by private security guards outside of his home in DeKalb County, Georgia.
When my mom first told me she was a lesbian, I was 16 years old and in my Junior year of high school. I remember she asked my older sister and me to come into the living room because she wanted to talk. She looked so serious and slightly concerned that my best guess was […]
