“Fruitvale,” the buzz-about film chronicling the final days of police shooting victim Oscar Grant, will hit theaters on July 26th, three months earlier than expected, after garnering rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.
A Dayton, Ohio father has been indicted after being caught on video beating his two daughters with a video cable .He’d caught them filming themselves “twerking” and completely lost it.
A group of Rochelle, Georgia students are attempting to organize the first integrated prom at their school. And they’re being met with resistance; signs promoting the idea have been torn down, and the school is refusing to fund the event.
NY State Senator Eric Adams says police commissioner Ray Kelly wanted the Stop and Frisk program to “instill fear” in young black and Latino men “that every time they left their homes they could be targeted by police.”
Four year-old Rahquel Carr was shot and killed while sitting in a car outside her grandfather’s home in Miami. Rahquel was sitting in the vehicle with at least two other children. Investigators are currently trying to determine if one of the other children shot her.
During the Floyd v. City of New York Stop and Frisk trial, an officer admitted to commanding an innocent 13 year-old boy to “stop crying like a little girl” during a stop and frisk. The boy had done nothing wrong, but he was still handcuffed and detained.
LAPD officer Earl Wright has been awarded a $1.2 million settlement with the city of Los Angeles after accusing the LAPD of racial harassment.
Towson University’s racist “White Student Union”has announced they’ll begin patrolling their campus to combat an alleged “black crime wave” on Towson’s campus. Something tells us this is not going to end well.
According to the Daily Kos, the mass school closings in Chicago will cost taxpayers $1 billion, including $676,000 per school to bolster safety programs. Many are deeply concerned for the safety of students forced to traverse gang territory to get to class.
George Zimmerman’s brother went on a tirade this weekend, linking Trayvon Martin with 17 year-old alleged baby killer De’Marquise Elkins: “Lib media shld ask if what these2 black teens did 2 a woman&baby is the reason ppl think blacks mightB risky”
Even though the ACA and healthcare is not a “hot button” issue this week, it is still a crucial issue that we must continue to think about for the ones that will come after us. This is an issue that will literally impact our lives and longevity of life. Let’s not let time, space, […]
How does one frame Black masculinity in the age of Barack Obama and Chief Keef? Does Black masculinity fall within the framework of masculinity in general, or is it an outlier seeking to find a home? In Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. Dubois purports that due to the irreparable damages of slavery and institutionalized racism, […]
