On Thursday, the Maryland House of Delegates enacted its second-harshest penalty against Delegate Mary Ann Lisanti for describing the Prince George district as the “n—– district.”
According to the Huffington Post, JuliĆ”n Castro became one of the first candidates to fully step into the ring for the presidential cycle of 2020 when he announced his intention to run on Saturday in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where he had previously been mayor. Among many progressive positions Castro gave in his […]
According to the Huffington Post, all major networks agreed to a White House request to broadcast Donald Trump’s address trying to force congress to give him money a the southern border wall as the government shutdown continues. To do so, networks had to give up a prime-time slot, and all the commercial revenue that comes […]
Yesterday, CNN fired Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a popular anti-racism activist figure and Temple university professor, over a United Nations speech in which he advocated for freedom and justice for the Palestinian people.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
By Gabrielle Noel The legal system was never built with Black queer people in mind. This system assigns victimhood, or refuses it, according to social biases, and societyās perception of who is more likely to be a victim or more credible thus affects who is allowed to receive justice. When it comes to sexual harassment, […]
PEN America, a literary activism group comprised of thousands of writers, has taken the step of suing a sitting President for his attacks on the press. Tuesday, the organization filed a suit in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Trump āviolated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitutionā via what PEN refers […]
By Taylor Lamb Social media has been popular long enough that people are no longer consistently singing its praises. Instead, weāve collectively reached a point that itās just too much. People care too much. They post too much. They spend too much time on their phones instead of engaging in person. I feel as though […]
A two-week run of terror has finally ended after police apprehended 35-year-old Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the United States Border Patrol and charged him withĀ the murders of 4 women who were all sex workers. Police were tipped off when a fifth would-be victim escaped from Ortiz at a Texas gas station.
by Josie Pickens Most Black folks of a certain age, who slowly crept towards adulthood in the nineties, have a soft spot for writer, director, producer and actor Spike Lee. Ā I needed Leeās movies, and his contemporary representation of Black life. The film Sheās Gotta Have It aided me in understanding who I was becoming […]
Singer/songwriter/producer John Legend recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post calling for the removal of non-unanimous juries from the State of Louisiana’s Constitution. At present, Louisiana and Oregon are the only two states in America where a person can be sent to prison without the unanimous vote of a jury. Legend cites the constitutional […]
On June 4th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted oneĀ of the biggest workplace raids under the Trump administration. They arrested 114 people suspected of entering the county illegally atĀ Corsoās Flower and Garden Center in Ohio.
