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How long have we been pointing out that Silicon Valley is overwhelmingly filled with white men? Quite a while. Yet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still holding out hope that “rigorous” diversity training is going to improve his company where only one percent of employees are Black. 

Protests have been sparked over multiple days in Paris and surrounding towns after a Black man was arrested, beaten and raped by four police officers. 

On Tuesday, the Ohio legislature passed the “heartbeat” bill which would prevent women from obtaining abortions at six weeks, or around the time a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Unfortunately, most women do not know that they are even pregnant around this time, making this bill a direct attack on Ohio women’s right to choose.

When the “alt-right” movement is referred to as neo-Nazis it’s not meant to be an exaggeration to show that its members are extremely conservative. This is a white nationalist group through and through which is only confirmed as more information about the group emerges. A video was recently obtained and published that shows more than 200 […]

A lot of people were surprised over Donald Trump’s performance in the polls, and even more surprised by his election win. Part of this was because they imagined that his only support was coming from fringe voters that they’d never see in their everyday lives. After a majority of white women voted for him and […]

Dylan Marron is known for keeping it all the way real in his short films with Seriously.TV. Professor Michelle Alexander, who’s book The New Jim Crow drew collective attention to mass incarceration in the United States, is also well-known for being brutally honest about the ways that implicit and institutional racism operate to dis-privilege Black […]

By: Dr. Barbara Ransby According to last week’s GenForward survey by political scientist, Cathy Cohen’s Black Youth Project, based at the University of Chicago, young people across the board, dissatisfied with both the Democrats and the Republicans, are eager for a fundamental political change. That is the good news.

By: Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — LaShun Roy supports a ban on semi-automatic weapons and more comprehensive background checks. But the 21-year-old gun owner from rural Texas doesn’t consider gun-control measures a top priority in this year’s elections. For Keionna Cottrell, a 24-year-old who lives on Chicago’s South Side and whose brother was shot and […]

Last week, a reporter named Emory Victor was on-scene after the shooting death of Michael Disbrowe, who officers in Boone, Iowa claim was wielding a firearm when they fatally shot him. But during her report, she and the cameraman were approached by a woman who began to verbally assault Victor. Her reaction is drawing praise from […]

Barbie dolls have never been as representative of people as they should be. One man is attempting to change that now. Marcus Montgomery wanted to get his fellow-game designer wife Lisette the latest career Barbie doll, which coincidentally happened to be Game Developer Barbie. Only, all of the dolls that Montgomery could find anywhere were white […]

Prima Ballerina Misty Copeland’s new Barbie doll — a part of Mattel’s “Sheroes” Collection – shows that Black women with unconventional life experiences can still achieve their goals, no matter how impossible they may seem. The new doll is wearing Copeland’s iconic red Firebird costume and features the principal dancer’s muscular frame and shapely body, […]

For the past seven years, Urban Prep Charter Academy has managed to send 100% of its students to four-year colleges. Given that the school’s student body is predominately young black men on Chicago’s South Side, it’s a refreshing story that rarely gets old.