The Harvard Law Review has elected Imelme Umana as its first Black woman president. This achievement puts Umana in a very elite group as the first Black American president of the Harvard Law Review later went on to become the first Black President of the United States.
If they were asked, Trayvon Martin’s parents wouldn’t hesitate to do whatever they could to have their son back. Unfortunately, that isn’t possible. So Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin are doing all they can with their platform to make the world better than it was when their teenage son was killed. So far, the two have to worked […]
Following Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and a broken strike among NYC taxi drivers, there was a widespread campaign to encourage users to delete their accounts with the ride-sharing app known as Uber. One of the first questions many people had was what would they do without the convenience of the app that allows them to […]
While American politicians are doing all they can to demonize Muslims and prevent them from gaining access to the country, they’re still being targeted and placed in grave danger in other countries around the world. This past Sunday, Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, opened fire on a group of Muslim worshipers at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center.
In a sign of things to come for Black communities under the new administration, President Trump threatened federal intervention to address the “carnage” that is Chicago’s gun violence in a tweet last Tuesday night: If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible “carnage” going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I […]
In the past week since he has assumed office, Donald Trump has signed several major executive orders shaking the very foundations of American immigration and foreign policy, without a stamp of Congressional approval. But, why is no one complaining about it?
Anti-Trump protests have come to a high point during the new President’s first week in office. Following a series of executive orders that seem to cause far more damage than anything, protestors have started to spread their focus elsewhere, to his direct supporters and their own business ventures. #DeleteUber has been trending since Saturday as […]
It has only been 9 days since President Obama left office and a new administration took over in his place. Since then, Trump has signed a number of executive orders including but not limited to: an order starting the process to create a wall on the US-Mexico border, an order seeking the “prompt repeal of the […]
Lynchings were a not-so-well kept secret and core part of American history. For decades, Black people were terrified that they could be taken out of their homes or jail cells by a mob of angry white people in the middle of the night and killed. Perhaps the worst part is that no one would ever […]
Charges against Jacqueline Craig, 46, and her daughter, Brea Hymond, 19, were dropped by Forth Worth police after body camera footage of their altercation with an officer leaked, according to Dallas News.
Most of us know the story. In 1955, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed while visiting family in Mississippi after a white woman named Carolyn Bryant claimed that he was “inappropriate” towards her – common lore is that he whistled at her. An all-white jury found the two accused men innocent, despite a mountain of […]
Days after clinching the U.S. presidency in November, Donald Trump appointed Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his pick for Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice. From stating he was once “okay with the Ku Klux Klan” until he learned they smoked marijuana, to prosecuting Black activists in the decades following the fall of […]
