I’ve been intrigued by black quarterbacks for as long as I’ve been a fan of football. For me, the golden age was when I first picked up the sport in the early 2000s and Donovan McNabb and Daunte Culpepper were two of the best players in the game. Today, that space is filled by a handful […]
In recent years, there has been augmented progress in finding a vaccine and functional cure for HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus.
It looks like Flint, Michigan is getting help from nearby celebrities. Big Sean is an active participant in helping the Flint, Michigan water crisis, as he launched #HealFlintKids on Thursday, January 21, 2016 along with donating $10,000.
Had I known that listening to strangers talk about random things would help with my anxiety, I would have started long ago. At the beginning of Winter Break, I was in a particularly low depressive bout and had been off medication for about three months. To avoid any potential triggers, and because generally the radio […]
Fuller House, a revival of Full House is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in 2016. Growing up, I loved Full House. At night, I imagined that I was a lost Tanner child. Now, I realize I was never destined to join the Tanner family tree—I didn’t fit any of the casting descriptions as a person […]
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.
Tuesday night was President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union. Full remarks: Watch @POTUS deliver his final State of the Union address. #SOTU https://t.co/AOyWjdFk4O — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) January 13, 2016 Appropriate for the moment, his speech was retrospective, examining the work he was able to accomplish, and some of his shortcomings, over the […]
The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland this summer is finally, in some measure, being held accountable for his actions.
The University of Chicago Medicine announced on Thursday that the university will be adding a new level 1 trauma center to its Hyde Park campus, according to the Chicago Tribune.
“If those of us who are the most marginalized are safer and more protected, it will improve the lives of everybody.”—Charlene Carruthers, national director of Black Youth Project 100 The Black Youth Project 100 ( BYP100 ), a collective of young Black activists that started in 2013 in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, […]
The Food and Drug Administration has officially approved the use of a life-saving sponge-filled syringe that can plug gunshot wounds in 15 seconds.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2015 Contact: Camesha Jones 240-533-2876 chicago.chapter@byp100.org  official statement from the byp100 on the firing of cpd police superintendent garry mccarthy BYP100 calls for resignation of Mayor Emanuel and States Attorney Alvarez, defunding of policing and investment in Black futures
