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The following post originally appears on the New York Times. It was written by Charles M. Blow. By: Charles M. Blow The killing of Michael Brown has tapped into something bigger than Michael Brown. Brown was the unarmed 18-year-old black man who was shot to death Saturday by a policeman in Ferguson, Mo. There are […]

  The following post originally appears on the Washington Post under the title, “No, college isn’t the answer. Reparations are.”  By: Tressie McMillan Cottom In case you’ve been living under a rock, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations. For some, reparations to African Americans for enslavement and state-sanctioned apartheid […]

Renisha McBride would have needed to consume 10 to 11 shots of vodka in an hour to get her blood-alcohol level to when it was when she lost her life on a Dearborn Heights, Michigan porch. At least that’s what former Chief Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Werner Spitz told jurors during testimony in Theodore […]

The following post originally appeared on The Root. It was written by Breanna Edwards and appears under the original title of, “Battle for Black Voters’ Rights Rages On.” By: Breanna Edwards Midterm elections are right around the corner, and for the North Carolina NAACP and the Advancement Project, this month represents a do-or-die moment in […]

Racial bias goes beyond education, employment, health care and criminal sentencing according to a new study of traffic psychology. The study was conducted in downtown Portland by Portland State University and University of Arizona. 

    Community service organizations invested in men’s health will host Twitter chat events using the hashtag #brotherswhotweet. The chats are meant to openly discuss the importance of mental, physical and sexual health with black men. 

  According to a study released by researchers at Princeton University, negative stereotypes about black gay men has very little impact on their salary. The research is described in a paper titled “The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes: Race, Sexual Orientation and the Job Application Process“, and challenges the commonly held idea that membership in multiple […]

So I was listening to Chris Brown’s song ‘Loyal’ and you know what, it’s the grossest display of romantic dysfunction I’ve come across in a while. It is well known Rap, Hip Hop, and R&B deal with cheating, trust, respect for your partner, and a host of other issues. Indeed these are universal themes in […]

According to a report released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a college degree has very little impact on the racial employment gap. The study, A College Degree is No Guarantee, shows that in 2013, 12.4 percent of black college students who earned their diplomas between the ages of 22 and 27 were jobless.

Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were killed when Cleveland Police Officers fired 137 bullets into their car. Both were unarmed.  I’m just returning from 2 powerful conferences that dealt with the issues of race and privilege in America. The first was NCORE (The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity) which provided a opportunity to talk […]

The following op-ed originally appeared on The Guardian. It was written by University of London lecturer, William Ackah, and appears under the title “British Universities Need Black Studies.” By: William Ackah   In San Francisco in 1968 a group of primarily black students went on strike to demand that their college establish an academic programme that […]

The following post originally appeared on The Root, and was written by Benjamin Todd Jealous and Andrea Ritchie. The piece’s original title is “It’s Time to End Profiling of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People of Color.” By: Benjamin Todd Jealous and Andrea Ritchie A  few years ago in New York City, a 17-year-old black […]