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Voto Latino, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Google is teaming up to present the $500,000 VL Innovators Challenge. The tech competition will provide 10-15 Millennial-led projects that improve the lives of Latinos in the U.S. with $10,000-$100,000.

Rashanah Baldwin is sick and tired of her neighborhood being negatively portrayed by media. True, Englewood isn’t home to the Cleavers, but there’s so much more to the Chicago community than violence, drugs and murder. So she and other residents are taking to social media to reshape the community’s image, one tweet at a time. 

This piece originally appeared in TIME. It was written by Briana Payton, and appears under the original title, “Dear Privileged-at-Princeton: You. Are. Privileged. And Meritocracy is a myth.”  By: Briana Payton   While Tal Fortgang is not responsible for white male dominance in society, he should at least recognize that this social hierarchy is not […]

  Students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill gathered in front of Saunders Hall to call for a renaming of the building. The Rename Saunders campaign which launched on April 9, has an online petition with more than 650 signatures. 

  The Chicago Department of Public Health, in conjunction with Better World Advertising, are seeking black women who are at least 18 years of age to participate in a focus group to develop an HIV/STD prevention campaign.

  Matters of race will forever be an interesting topic to me. I will love and be frustrated by racial matters as it educates me and helps further shape my perception of others and the representations of myself. I was reluctant to see the movie “Noah” a biblical remake of the popular story about the […]

The following post was originally published on Chocolate Covered Lies. It was written by Mark Harris.  By: Mark Harris The U.S. lapse in judgment on mental health issues have come to the forefront relentlessly over the past week or so. Let me give a couple of examples:

  By: Kristen Topp I work at a school that is K-12, giving me a chance to work with children of all ages. It’s a small school and I’m one of the three black staff members. It’s a pretty expensive private school with a low percentage of students of color. Therefore I get to be […]

  Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for fraud, conspiracy, and other charges, was recently relocated from a North Carolina prison to a prison in Alabama. This moves comes right after news broke that Jackson had been placed in solitary confinement for several days for giving prisoners advice on their rights.

A Louisiana man says he was unlawfully detained by police after they responded to a domestic dispute. Donrell Breaux, 26, also questioned the relationship between the responding deputy and the neighbor with which he had the altercation with. 

The following is a guest post written by Logan Strain a writer for Instant Checkmate, an online background check service.  When he isn’t reading, he’s hanging out with his daughter. By: Logan Strain In Florida, having enough pills to fit into the palm of your hand will land you in prison for three years. At least. Statute […]

By: Kai M. Green Black History month is intimately connected to the lives and stories of everyday Black people. The goal of Black History month is to validate the knowledges and stories of Black people, stories which are often erased and/or invalidated by Eurocentric accounts of history. It was a month to reeducate the country and the world […]