Tracy Martin was the guest of honor at the first ever meeting of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys. He spoke passionately of the need for a statute or amendment that would address racial profiling. Other concerns – including education, crime, and Stand Your Ground laws – were discussed.
Orlando Shaw – a man who fathered 22 children by 14 different women – may be getting his own reality show. Shaw became an internet sensation after video of an interview with Nashville’s NewsChannel5 went viral. Since then, he’s gotten an agent and is fielding offers from Hollywood.
Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice has been appointed the new President of Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Rice is the first African American woman to lead a free-standing medical school.
A recent article over at The Nation shines a light on how young people from across the country are uniting, organizing, and demanding justice.
An Ohio PAC called the Buckeye Firearms Foundation is raising money to buy George Zimmerman a new gun.
I try not to say much anymore about the POTUS in this space, but since he stole the spotlight from Bill Cosby by actually speaking about the George Zimmernan verdict, I thought I should make say something very briefly. If you missed it, the POTUS gave a 10-minute or so speech about Trayvon Martin. Working […]
“We will lead waves of the nation’s poor and disinherited to Washington, D.C. next spring to demand redress of their grievances by the United States government and to secure at least jobs or income for all. We will go there, we will demand to be heard and we will stay until America responds. If this […]
Lauryn Hill began serving a three-month jail sentence for tax evasion.
Pro-Palestinian organization called the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has created an online petition, calling on Alicia Keys to cancel a concert in Israel scheduled for July 4th.
Yesterday, 20-year old pro tennis star Sloane Stephens advanced to the Wimbledon quarterfinals after defeating Monica Puig. Stephens is literally the last American standing in the tournament.
It’s not the BET Awards if something horrible didn’t pop off, right? Well, blogger B. Scott, who hosted the BET Awards red carpet last night, has confirmed that the network refused to let him wear high heels.
A recent study asserts that people generally believe black people feel less pain than whites. Called the racial empathy gap, it helps to explain the persistence of racial disparities in our society; in everything from medical care, to social and economic policies, to the criminal justice system.
