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Last week, The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the Obama Administration’s latest initiative. Not to be outdone by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the administration has announced a sequel of its own featuring children competing. The POTUS et. al. has ponied up an addition $100 million in federal funds to public high schools. […]

By Aron Cobbs, BYP 100 New York City Originally posted on LambdaLegal.org Transgender Day of Remembrance Flag Throughout our country’s ongoing experiment with democracy, we’ve seen historically oppressed groups struggle for basic legal rights and the recognition of their humanity. The women’s suffrage movement won women the rights to vote and hold public office. The […]

Thousands of students on college campuses across the nation gathered today to honor the memory of former president John F. Kennedy. 50 years ago today the civil rights leader and POTUS was slain while riding in a parade processional. Several universities, campuses and organizations while hold screenings and exhibits to commemorate the event.

A Detroit man says that he was ordered to sing and dance by police while an officer video-taped the incident. 55-year-old Scipio lives in a boarding house in the city, and often wanders into Grosse Pointe Park collecting cans. Scipio, unaware that he was being filmed by the officers, felt humiliated. Activists in the city […]

Craig Cobb has no qualms about telling you his plans for the small North Dakota town he resides in: to make Leith an all-white residence. But now, the tables have turned since Cobb appeared on a popular daytime television show. When explaining his plans to make the town all white on “The Trisha Show,” Cobb […]

Lately, our teenagers have started to play a violent game. “Knockout” is when a person, who is usually walking alone, gets randomly attacked, often punched in the face by at least one person. It could be a boy or a girl, man or woman, homeless person or even the local UPS delivery man. No one […]

A 20-year-old man is free after spending three years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. In fact, Kalief Browder says he was never formerly charged with ANY crime. It was 2010 and Browder was a 16-year-old sophomore walking home from a party on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. 

A Florida congressman who voted in favor of food stamp recipients being tested for substance abuse, has revealed that he has a drug problem after being caught with cocaine. In September, Rep. Trey Radel voted for Republican legislation that would make food stamp recipients take drug tests to prove they’re clean before receiving the government benefit. […]

Baseball legend Ernie Banks and the Queen of Daytime Television’s Oprah Winfrey were bestowed with one of the highest honors yesterday when they received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Banks was saluted by President Obama for being the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs (which is a lot coming from Obama, as […]

  The Manhattan Supreme Court dropped charges on Tuesday against a Harlem man accused of beating a transgender woman to death. Islan Nettles died in August after Paris Wilson allegedly beat her when he found out that she was born male.

Andrew McCutchen is now the National League’s most valuable player. McCutchen is hailed as the best player on the Pirates team, returning postseason baseball to Pittsburgh for the first time in 21 years. 

  At the end of this month, Rihanna will make history by becoming the recipient of the first-ever American Music Awards Icon award. Winners of the awards, which will air live on November 24 on ABC, are determined by fans.