An Amber Alert is still in effect for 8-year-old Relisha Tenau Rudd. The Metropolitan Police Department Youth Division confirmed a white 1976 GMC pick-up was found by Prince George’s County Police in Hyattsville early Friday. Officials believe the vehicle was the last known mode of transportation that the child and her abductor were traveling […]
In November, some members of UCLA’s Law School started wearing T-shirts in support of UCLA law professor Richard Sander. Sander’s scholarship was described as racially divisive, and some argued that the shirts were insensitive to black students. Now after the Team Sander t-shirt controversy, black students at UCLA Law School have organized an awareness campaign in […]
Baseball legend Ernie Banks and the Queen of Daytime Television’s Oprah Winfrey were bestowed with one of the highest honors yesterday when they received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Banks was saluted by President Obama for being the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs (which is a lot coming from Obama, as […]
Fashion designer, Peggy Noland’s most recent line of clothing at her Kansas City boutique features a dress with the image of talk show queen Oprah’s head photo-shopped onto nude bodies that vary from skinny to obese. The imagery is taken to the absurd with one Oprah face detailed as a KISS face.  There is a […]
In light of the recent homicide of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, the unnerving trend of violence against black females is brought to the forefront. Violence against women, especially minority women is not a new trend in America.
P. Diddy is stirring up a bit of racial controversy after posting a photo of white women bowing down to a black queen. Early Saturday morning, the star’s Instagram comment section erupted with cheers for the image, but also some very hateful racist remarks.
Fortune’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Women in business” has been released. As we may expect, there aren’t a lot of women of color on the list, but three were mentioned. CEO & President of Xerox Ursula Burns, Sam’s Club CEO & President Rosalind Brewer and Creator and Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes made the list.
The Trayvon Martin case has remained in the nation’s conscious. Just about every news source is covering the trial and the nation is still dialoging about what should happen to the man who killed him. With the national attention this case has received, I can’t help but think back to Rekia Boyd and wonder why […]
Forbes has released its annual “Most Powerful Women” list, and we are so proud of the many women of color who made the cut. Congratulations to all of these incredible and inspirational women!
After much clamor and many entreaties, finally President Obama has decided to come to Chicago to address the rampant gun violence plaguing communities of color. Perhaps in a newfound fervor stemming from the security of a second term, Obama seems to have become more intentional and aggressive about addressing the issues that have a greater […]
Megan Piphus, an upperclassman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She’s using music, ventriloquism, and puppetry, to inspire youth to dream big and in color!
Swainson was last seen at her home at 3:30am, just before her mother left for work. When her mother returned around 7:15am, she heard the teen’s alarm clock going off, but Gabrielle was gone. If you have any info, call 803-576-3000, or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.