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If gaining acceptance into Harvard College is one of the highest accomplishments in academics, is losing your admission one of the lowest? It likely feels that way for a group of students admitted into the class of 2021 who then lost their spots after founding a group chat plastered with racist and sexually explicit memes. 

By: Taylor Bogert, Kiara Hyde, Chelsea Jackson (BYP Fellows)   Can a Black person ever truly outrun racism? NBA superstar LeBron James found out the hard way when his California home was defaced by an unidentified person who spray painted the n-word on his front gate—the eve of the NBA Finals. James talked thoughtfully about […]

Seven people have been killed along with another 48 injured following a terrorist attack on the London Bridge. BBC reports that a white van hit multiple pedestrians before the passengers got out and stabbed a number of passersby late Saturday night. Police shot and killed three men who were wearing fake bomb vests. Including a similar […]

Lezley McSpadden never got to graduate high school. Two decades ago, she dropped out of Ladue Horton Watkins High School during her junior year so that she could raise her son, Michael Brown. 

Two Muslim girls – one wearing a hijab – were the target of an onslaught of threats on a Portland train last week. Three men, including Micah Fletcher, came to their rescue and got in between them and the white supremacist who was threatening them. The three men were then attacked with a knife and only […]

Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Accord, leaving the worldwide fight against global warming, ceding leadership, and placing future populations in danger.

Just a few days before the start of the NBA Finals, LeBron James was forced to step away from basketball with the shocking reminder that racism knows no bounds. The future hall of famer spoke to the press after it was revealed that someone spreay-painted racial slurs on the front gate of his Los Angeles […]

Anthony Hammond, 34, faces charges of assault and a hate crime after stabbing a man with a machete while yelling racial slurs. The Los Angeles Times reports that the attack took place over Memorial Day weekend in Clearlake, which is about 80 miles north of San Francisco. 

A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended and criminally charged after it was found he repeatedly pulled over (read: stalked) women to ask for their phone numbers and try to establish a relationship. Trooper Eric Richardson, 31, faces charged because he lied on his paperwork concerning the multiple encounters in an attempt to cover up his […]

Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, has been fired. The Cleveland Police Department announced that Loehmann was terminated due to inaccurate details on his job application and other administrative policy violations, not for killing Rice. 

Darius Smith, 15, was fatally shot by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in California who claims the teen was trying to rob him. The officer told authorities he fired in self-defense as Smith and two 14-year-olds – one of which was Smith’s cousin – tried to rob him at gunpoint after exiting […]

New Orleans was at the heart of the free speech/”revisionist history” debate this past month as it removed four Confederate statues in a move that was long overdue. Now it looks like Baltimore will follow its lead. Mayor Catherine Pugh told a group of reporters at a press conference that the city of Baltimore will look […]