Proposals are meant to be memorable, joyous occasions. Most people think moonlit dinner, walks in the park or something really sentimental. But, to all of our surprise, there’s apparently someone out there that thinks police and guns drawn instead.Â
The University of Pennsylvania’s English Department announced that it would replace a picture of William Shakespeare with one of a more representative writer. But that was a few years ago, and the picture of Shakespeare remained untouched. So the students decided to do something about it themselves. Students reportedly removed the picture of Shakespeare from […]
In light of the political moment, a little bit of escapism is just what the doctor ordered. You’ll find that and more in the delightful 2013 UK comedy Chewing Gum, released on Netflix this October. Led by the endearing Michaela Coel, the show is a fun opportunity to engage with a young woman inexperienced in […]
The former director of a West Virginia non-profit organization was removed from her position after she made a Facebook post calling First Lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels.” This was one of countless racist incidents that followed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November. It appears that the move to remove Pamela Ramsey Taylor from […]
Michael Slager’s case after murdering Walter Scott was deemed a mistrial on Monday when a jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision. This left a lot of questions in the air, the most prominent being what exactly has to happen for a police officer to be found guilty of killing a person of color? Because […]
Lee Daniels, the director responsible for Precious, The Butler and Empire, has an outlook on race that’s somewhat surprising.Â
There’s a common belief that academia is absent of the same racism that can be found in the rest of the world. That comes with the assumption that education is the antithesis of ignorance. But that’s still yet to be proven as the number of hate crimes in the United States has spiked in recent […]
Being “woke” is the modern day version of saying someone’s in tune with the world around them, has their third eye open, or whatever phrase you’d like to use to declare them as someone who “gets it.” Calling someone “woke” is meant to be a compliment, except for when it’s being used ironically – which […]
Ronald Gasser shot Joe McKnight in broad daylight. He told police officers he did so and turned over the weapon he used to do it. Still, it took them four days to charge him with a crime.Â
The United Negro Improvement Association. The Congress of Racial Equity. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Association of Colored Women. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The Black Panther Party. The list of civic organizations that helped shape the course of racial justice in the 20th […]
Celebrations rang out on Sunday after news broke that the Army Corps of Engineers would be ending construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline as originally planned. The pipeline was to be laid half a mile from the Dakota Sioux Standing Rock Tribe’s North Dakota Reservation, near the Missouri River, which the Tribe has claimed as […]
After a Supreme Court battle this summer over the TRAP Laws which closed over half of the abortion clinics in the state of Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbot is once again attempting to over-regulate abortion care providers into submission. According to the New York Times, Texas just passed a law requiring all fetal remains to be buried […]
