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“What I think is so wonderful about America is the fact that it’s a society of immigrants,” said Lupita Nyong’o in a video for the #IAmAnImmigrant campaign to remind Americans that we all come from an immigrant background. Other celebrities supporting the campaign, which was put together by Welcome.us, with appearances from celebrities including Akon, Rosario […]

Black organizers are still mobilizing against police brutality, divestment from communities and other facets of institutionalized racism. And while digital media is hailed as their key tool in fostering connectivity and documenting information in real time, the use of media sites like Twitter and Facebook has presented its own challenges regarding issues of surveillance and […]

A coalition comprised of 22 different Milwaukee community organizations is working to advocate for Dan Popp’s alleged triple homicide to be considered a hate crime, according to Colorlines. Earlier this month (March 6), Popp was arrested for allegedly killing a Puerto Rican man and a Hmong couple in their apartment building.

By Eve Ewing It’s 11:20 at night. I have a lot of work to finish and I haven’t even eaten dinner yet, but like so many of my friends, my head is in Baltimore, and I’m caught in the same cycle: TV news, Twitter, Facebook, texting, repeat. Trying to piece together stories as I can, […]

Raven-Symoné doesn’t seem to think comparing Michelle Obama to an ape is racist. Last week, Univision news anchor Rodner Figueroa was fired after comparing Michelle Obama to an ape from Planet of the Apes while on air. There’s a long history of racist, dehumanizing tropes that compare black people to animals. On The View, Symoné was unconvinced when Rosie Perez […]

On Kanye West, Azealia Banks and a call for a deeper reading of their rage. By Jay Dodd Kanye’s narrative has been riddled with often sloppily generalised tantrums. While we must hold him accountable to his “seat at the table aspirations,” we often, as consumers of his frequency of Blackness, only hear him as whiny child begging […]

A Connecticut school principal was suspended after a video of her dragging two kindergarten students down the school’s hallway surfaced. Tisdale School Principal Carmen Perez Dickson allegedly exposed the students to the inappropriate behavior in the spring of 2012. 

Media Contact: Jasson Perez jassonperez@gmail.com 773-344-2308  BYP 100 Chicago Chapter Joins Project Nia & Decarcerate Illinois Campaign to Oppose SB 1342 Sign our petition calling on the Illinois State House and the Illinois State Senate to oppose SB1342, this law will not make our communities safer   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   CHICAGO-SB1342, a law that would increase […]

“I fear death, I’m young I have a whole life ahead of me, I don’t want to start gang-banging and then people are killing people for no reason now. So it’s like I don’t want to gang-bang and walk down the street and get killed,  that takes away my life…but It’s going to hurt the […]

Don’t miss RACE. JUSTICE. POWER: THROUGH THE LENS OF THE TRAYVON MARTIN CASE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CHICAGO; a teach-in that will delve into the underlying issues that surround the Trayvon Martin tragedy and what it represents. ARTS INCUBATOR – 301 EAST GARFIELD BLVD. – WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013. – 7:00 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.

A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in a small Texas town has left an unknown number of people dead and dozens injured, and leveled homes and buildings blocks away. The explosion occurred around 8pm in a community near Waco, TX. According to CBS, the explosion could be heard 45 miles away. While its still unknown exactly […]

Four people are dead, including a 13 year-old boy, and 29 others are wounded after yet another incredibly bloody weekend in the Windy City. What will it take to stem the tide of violence in Chicago?