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  On Thursday, trans women of color will lead a rally at NYPD headquarters to demand justice for Islan Nettles. Nettles was brutally beaten to death in August after her attacker found out that she was trans. Trans Women of Color Collective of Greater New York  will lead the rally in hopes of calling attention to […]

Four men are facing charges in connection with the shooting death of a 5-year-old Omaha girl who was hit by a stray bullet while eating breakfast with her family in their home. All four men were arrested earlier on suspicion of theft on Jan. 15. Surveillance video captured footage in the area where shots were […]

Officials at a Utah elementary school took the meals of 40 children and threw them away due to outstanding balances on their accounts. Parents of students at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City were shocked and angered upon hearing the news.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a road map to end New York City’s appeal of a judge’s stop-and-frisk ruling. De Blasio’s announcement means that the city believes what Michael Bloomberg did not— that the previous administration abused stop-and-frisk policing.  The practice has long been criticized for racially profiling minorities. 

Rutgers University will now offer a course on Beyoncé in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.  The class, “Feminist Perspectives: Politicizing Beyoncé,” is being offered during the Spring semester at the college. 

A New York man was found dead in a hospital emergency room after waiting hours to see a doctor. Jon Verrier, 30, died eight hours after he arrived at Saint Barnabas Hospital in West Bronx after seeking treatment for a rash.

The Maryland school board passed new disciplinary regulations that will end its zero-tolerance policy. The regulations come after four years of deliberations, and provide hope for a large number of boys, special education students and African Americans who are sent home or jailed for minor infractions. 

For the first time since leaving the Miami Dolphins, NFL player Jonathan Martin is speaking out on why he left the team. The 24-year-old tackle left in October amid allegations of bullying and harassment from fellow teammates. His case garnered national attention, placing “locker room” culture into the spotlight.

The editor of a controversial op-ed piece where a white woman openly laments about the affects of a heavyset black woman in her yoga class has responded. Jen Caron caught a wave of backlash after sharing her earnest thoughts on XO Jane about an African American woman entering her yoga class. Some called the piece self […]

Eight Chicago police officers and the City of Chicago are named in a civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday accusing the officers of conducting multiple illegal open-air strip searches and planting evidence. Caprice Halley, Tevin Ford and the estate of Robert Douglas say they were pulled over on the 9000 block of South Laflin by undercover […]

Israeli soldiers checking my passport at a checkpoint in Hebron  I honestly had no intention on writing a song based on the trip I took to Palestine and Israel recently as part of a delegation of African-American activists and artists, sponsored by the Carter Center. I’m still having a difficult time processing what I witnessed. I […]

For the first since Sunday, Kendrick Lamar has responded to Macklemore’s win. The star was nominated for 7 Grammys, four of which Macklemore took home. While talking with XXL after last night’s Don Kennedy show, Lamar had the following the say about Macklemore’s win.