African Americans populate prisons in the country more than any other ethnic group, and according to a recent report released by the Sentencing Project, the number of inmates serving life sentences is on the rise.
Glen James, a homeless man living in Boston turned in more that $40,000 in traveler’s checks and cash to police. Because of that, a fundraising campaign has been started in his honor.
So, (Russell) Simmons’ antics are (Black) Twitter’s latest causality, I guess. In what seems to have become a weekly tradition on these internet streets, folks took to social media to call out, chastise, and blast Simmons into what they believed was proper action after his All Def Digital released a YouTube video that was unfortunate […]
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
An Ohio PAC called the Buckeye Firearms Foundation is raising money to buy George Zimmerman a new gun.
After losing their mother to cancer, Makia Underwood, 32, Zakia Clark, 29, and Tasha Clark, 27 began wearing shirts and hats with “F— Cancer” emblazoned on the front. A security guard at a Philly mall took issue w/ the language, and kicked them out.
The massive tornado that hit Oklahoma has left dozens dead and hundreds injured and without homes. President Obama has since declared Oklahoma a major disaster area, calling the tornado “one of the most destructive storms” in American history.
I cannot count the number of times I have heard comments equating majority poor black neighborhoods (“ghettos”) with exponential violence this week. Most, however, do not understand the clear problems with these statements. While the majority of these comments are from my classmates at the University of Chicago- a school that actively others the surrounding […]
Sandra Arnold, a history student at Fordham University, has created a database that allows participants to mark the burial sites of slaves, thus protecting them from being trampled by time and construction projects. This is a fantastic and vital initiative.
Critics of the New York City Police Department’s “Stop and Frisk” policy can celebrate a small victory this morning. A federal judge has declared part of the tactic unconstitutional. Here’s hoping that subsequent judgments compel a thorough dismantling of the policy.
A Utah sixth-grader was arrested after bringing a gun to school to protect himself in the event of a school shooting. Witnesses say the boy either p0inted the gun at students on the playground, or threatened them with it verbally. Is this further proof that this country needs gun control?
Honestly, I have wanted to speak on Rape Culture for a while, but I have remained hesitant for a long time, quite simply because I am a man. The privilege of being a man and talking about such a sensitive subject, from a position of power is one that I, even now, am not entirely […]
