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Regardless of where you are in your political education, Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th was pretty well done. Weaving the staggering numbers of rising incarceration rates with the insights of prominent activists, journalists, and academics coupled with a soundtrack that highlights the connectedness of mass incarceration to Black realities, it is a signature piece of […]

The prison strike that’s been occurring across the country still hasn’t been picked up by major news sources despite the major impact it could have on the justice system. Perhaps that will change now that the Department of Justice has gotten involved. The DOJ has released a statement saying that they’ll be investigating the conditions […]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the latest to offer up her opinion on the racial climate in the United States and the reactions its brought out of many people. She mainly had something to say about Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the National Anthem, which has garnered both support and pushback both across the NFL and […]

The island of Haiti has been the little black jewel of the Western Hemisphere since it successfully clinched its independence from colonial rule in 1804, becoming the first colony to do so. But in recent years, a combination of political unrest, rampant poverty, a deadly earthquake, the UN-generated cholera outbreak, on top of the disastrous […]

Jazz Alford, a transgender black woman, was found dead in a hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, according to Mic. Her body was first found on Sept. 23, but she was unfortunately misgendered by authorities. 

Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation was meant to take the box office and award circuit over by storm. But controversies tied to Parker’s 1999 rape trial and a press run full of missteps have steered away many of its potential viewers. As a matter of fact, the film didn’t even come close to meeting […]

Warning: This article contains graphic language that was once used by the Republican candidate for President of the United States, Donald Trump.  This past weekend was an absolute political shitshow. First came the ~revelation~ to many Republicans and the American public that Donald Trump is not respectful to women. In a leaked 2005 tape from […]

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Qymana Botts saw white colleagues with the same amount of experience getting promoted to cashier ahead of her at the Indiana discount store where she worked. When she asked her supervisors why, they told her she didn’t project the image that they wanted from their cashiers: straight hair — […]

On Monday night, Vice Presidential candidates Mike Pence and Tim Kaine took to the stage to defend their candidates for President, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, respectively. Mike Pence handily won in style, but America lost on substance: Pence blatantly and repeatedly lied about the statements and positions of Donald Trump.

Jordan Peele, a comedian most notably known for his half of the famous sketch show, Key and Peele, has apparently always had an interest in horror films. So he went ahead and shocked us all by making one and it looks really, really good. 

Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager was released during my first semester in college.  After looking forward to it for weeks, I played it on my laptop as soon as it came out. When it was over, I turned to my roommate and asked for his thoughts. He admitted that it was […]

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Young adults are more likely to trust Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump on handling wages, income inequality and personal finances, but they’re divided on which candidate would better handle job creation, a new GenForward poll shows. Young Hispanics, blacks and Asian-Americans favor Clinton on all four economic issues, but […]