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White nationalist duo Richard Spencer and Cameron Padgett are salty. They are salty America racially and ethnically diversifies at an irreversible rate, that everybody does not revere and sustain the creation of whiteness the way they do, and that global competition does not just reward white mediocrity. They are also salty that Ohio State University […]

Early Wednesday morning the National Book Awards committees cut down their long lists of forty works to the final twenty book selections across Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Young People’s Literature categories. According to NPR, two legacy winners have already been announced: Annie Proulx, who is being honored with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American […]

“To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up […] Each of us must find our work and do it.” — Audre Lorde I am hurting. On Saturday, as I walked through a Black gay club, a guy crossing my path grabbed between my legs. He barely reacted as […]

Steve Harvey’s been… polarizing… for quite a while. You can go back as far as the whole problematic “Think Like a Man” campaign or as recent as his willingness to sit down with Donald Trump. He’s always doing something to make you raise an eyebrow or two.

A Sacramento police officer has been placed on administrative leave after cell phone footage showed him charging at a pedestrian, throwing him to the ground and punching him several times for what appears to be nothing more than jaywalking.

In 2014, Andrew Caldwell was introduced to the world via a viral video in which he proclaimed his deliverance from homosexuality at an annual COGIC convention in St. Louis. “I was already fighting for deliverance,” he told me in an interview two years later. “That night I said, ‘God, if you’re real, I want you […]

Ever since the beginning of April, water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and many who supported them have been fighting against the construction of an oil pipeline under the Missouri River that could endanger the water supply for thousands of people. After being deprived of supplies, assaulted by police officers from across the […]

Officers encountered Tawon Boyd after his girlfriend called in to say that he was acting “crazy,” according to the Baltimore Sun. Three days after officers forcibly restrained him by repeatedly pushing him to the ground and punching him multiple times, the 21-year-old has passed away.

So, tonight’s the night of the NAACP Image Awards. I don’t know about you, but it’ll be refreshing to see a host of black people in one place that isn’t about protesting…oh wait, yes, it will be. We’re protesting the lack of diversity and Hollywood racism tonight, so it’s time to get it on and popping […]

The St. Paul Minnesota Police Department has placed an officer on leave while it looks into claims that he has put on Facebook telling drivers to run over protestors who advocated against the police killings of two black men in 2015.

In the national fight to raise the minimum wage, New York City just declared a victory. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday is set to increase the wage for all of the city’s workers to $15, New York Daily News reported.

  By Elizabeth Todd-Breland “I wanted to reach out to you to thank and encourage you to continue to speak out against border-jumping families.”  This was the message delivered from a former Little League official to Chris Janes, the white Vice President of the Evergreen Park Athletic Association who accused Jackie Robinson West’s all-black Chicago youth […]