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High school students in Jacksonville, Fla. staged a sit-in earlier this week as a form of protest to demand that African-American history be made a full-year course.

The United States Mint and Treasury has revealed that Lady Liberty will feature a Black woman for the first time ever. 

“Why don’t you hand in papers in Ebonics since that is how you talk?” I remember someone asking me this in my early days of grad school. I then explained that, as a student, it was my job to perform particular scholastic duties – including showing a mastery of the traditional APA, MLA, and Chicago […]

Many of us make New Year’s resolutions to read a book a week or once per month. And, if you are anything like me, you want those books to come from Black authors. Now, a company called Noir Reads is making meeting those goals all the more possible by delivering books from the Black Diaspora […]

About a year ago, it was revealed that a teenager was masquerading as a doctor and actually sitting in on procedures in Florida. After being caught, Malachi Love-Robinson was charged with practicing medicine without a license, forgery and grand theft. It looks like the now 19-year-old can’t break his bad habits after being caught attempting to […]

President Barack Obama bid the country farewell a couple of days ago from his adopted hometown of Chicago. However, last night, First Lady Michelle Obama got her opportunity to deliver her parting words to the country while appearing on The Tonight Show. 

I remember the first time I had my intelligence questioned by a peer like it was yesterday; I had just won the regional spelling bee when a classmate, a non-Black person of color, started a rumor that my accomplishments were simply a result of me smoking marijuana. I was 14, and had never smoked a […]

In the entire history of the United States government, a sitting senator has never testified against the appointment of another to a cabinet position. Today, Sen. Cory Booker D-N.J. will make history by being the first as part of Sen. Jeff Sessions R-Al. confirmation hearing to become the next Attorney General.

Dylann Roof, who was granted the ability to defend himself in court, delivered his closing statements to the jury deciding whether he’ll be sentenced to life in prison or given the death penalty. In his five-minute closing statement, he told the jury that he felt he had to enter Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina […]

Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow was found murdered Friday night after a neighbor noticed a “strong odor” coming from her apartment. When Sioux Falls, South Dakota police arrived, they discovered her body, according to Mic. “Tunkasila has called another one of our community members home,” read a statement on the Sioux Falls Two-Spirit and Allies Facebook […]

A girl’s basketball team from Plainfield High School in New Jersey was welcomed to a school they’d be playing against with a black dummy with a string tied around its neck and a basketball at the end of it. While changing in a classroom at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, New Jersey on Saturday morning, […]

By: Imani J. Jackson When a movie theatre packed with people of varied races, ethnicities, ages and genders erupts into simultaneous applause and cheers during a film’s closing credits, it’s safe to say the story resonated. That human happiness is exactly what manifested on Saturday when my mother, a grandmotherly elder, my younger sister and […]