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The mistreatment of black women in history is extremely frustrating, on a good day. But seeing the harm that they’re enduring today is heartbreaking beyond belief. The story of Joyce Quaweay’s death is no exception.

Tragedy struck a Delaware high school when a student was attacked in a bathroom and later died from the injuries. It was later found that Amy Joyner-Francis actually died as a result of a pre-existing heart condition with other contributing factors, according to ABC. The Delaware Justice Department has now charged three teens that were […]

Joy Reid, who’s hosted her own hourly programs on MSNBC throughout the past two years, will now fill a time slot that once belonged to Melissa Harris-Perry. On Saturday and Sunday mornings, from 10 a.m. to noon EST, viewers will be able to tune in and watch Reid speak on national headlines and pull from […]

A Pennsylvania high school graduation was brought to a complete standstill after a U.S. Army sergeant surprised his son at the ceremony. U.S. Army Sgt. Owen Neuville was deployed to Afghanistan a few months ago, but he managed to arrive just in time for his son Dashaun’s big moment. 

The Tom Joyner Foundation has announced that it will offer a scholarship for Arts majors at Historically Black Collegiate Universities. 

Pharell’s hit single “Happy” is spreading like a wildfire. The song earned the music producer his first Oscar nod, and now everyone is filled with joy. In honor of National Happiness Day, yes that is a thing, we’d like to share one of the best renditions of “Happy” with you. Students at Chicago’s Kenwood Academy […]

The Rev. Al Sharpton, radio personality Tom Joyner and the parents of slain teenagers Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis will lead a march and rally against Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law. The rally is set to take place in Tallahassee on Monday. 

Radio personality Tom Joyner has offered Rachel Jeantel a full scholarship to the HBCU of her choosing: ” I will help you get tutors to get you out of high school, tutors to help you pass the SAT and I will give you a full ride scholarship to any HBCU you’d like.”

So, I am a True Blood fan. However, I am tired of seeing the only black female character, Tara, get pulled through the proverbial ringer on every episode beginning with Season One and ending with Season Three. Is it too much to ask that Tara get a break? I mean, Sookie, the white female lead, […]

By: Chaz Barracks, PhD In a poignant dialogue between two Black trans women who are media influencers, TS Madison and Alexis Sno Legend refuse the respectability politics and binary thinking that often constrain mainstream Black queer representation. Together, they demonstrate how Black queer people reclaim agency and use the digital space to perform and be […]

By: Amber Butts   There’s always a reason the dead had to die. This country is very practiced at explaining itself, searching the dead for a reason before it admits to killing them, rifling through whatever they left behind. Alex Pretti was thirty-seven years old, an ICU nurse in Minneapolis protesting federal immigration raids when […]

By: Jari Bradley Legend has it that, as a child, I hated dresses. I was just entering kindergarten and someone thought it would be fitting to adorn me in red ruffles for the first day of school. On my way past the stairs to my kindergarten classroom, a middle-aged Latina woman with curly black hair […]