Update 5/4/17:Â It appears that the student body at The University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t let the institution move past its racist past so easily. Carmen Gosey, the outgoing president of the Associated Students of Madison, wrote a scathing letter calling the school out for its actions.
Young, Black leaders in Cincinnati, Oh. Â and Jackson, Miss. secured meaningful victories in mayoral primary races this week.Â
The good news? A $100 million grant in federal funding is on its way to approval to help the residents of Flint, Mich. The bad news? Thousands of residents could lose their homes because they haven’t been paying for the toxic water that’s running through their pipes.Â
On Tuesday, the Balch Springs police officer who fatally shot Jordan Edwards was fired. Police Chief Jonathan Haber announced the officer’s status was changed after he was placed on administrative leave following the shooting on Saturday, according to CNN.Â
The Trump Administration is continuing its assault on the Obama legacy. According to CNN, they have passed around a memo with plans to end Let Girls Learn, an initiative started by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2015 to help girls in developing country go to schools.
Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber’s story about  Jordan Edwards’ death has changed with new information. While Haber initially told the press that an officer fired into the car full of teenagers because it was driving in an “aggressive manner,” that wasn’t truly the case. The New York Times reports that the car Edwards was riding […]
The latest good deed from the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick occurred this past weekend. On Saturday, Kaepernick and his girlfriend, Hot 97 personality Nessa, dropped off two boxes of suits at a New York parole office.Â
HBCUs already have a very complicated relationship with the Trump administration. And it’s only getting worse.Â
The Milwaukee County Jail cut off the water supply for two inmates in 2016, even after an inmate died from dehydration just weeks before.Â
In the darker days of U.S. history, “conversion therapy” was used as a means to force members of the LGBTQ community to live a heterosexual lifestyle. The use of electric shot treatments, forced nausea and biased therapy practices were used to “cure” what many people welt was a disease. While there are still institutions that […]
A Minnesota man was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Hennepin County for shooting at a group of Black Lives Matter protestors in 2015.Â
Jordan Edwards, 15, was killed in a Dallas-Forth Worth suburb after a police officer shot into a car full of teenagers on Saturday night.
