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Video footage of a brutal beating of a young black male at the hands of Houston police officers has community members outraged. Though he’d clearly surrendered, four police officers are caught on tape relentlessly punching and kicking 18 year-old Chad Holley.

George Zimmerman was released from jail last night on $150,000 bond. Zimmerman only had to put up 10 percent of that amount; thus it cost him $15,000 to get himself bailed out of jail while awaiting trial for the murder of an unarmed African American teenager.

Dedicated to Lakeesha Malone and Kim Jackson This past Sunday Dr. Dre and Snoop Doog achieved an impossible: they brought Tupac Shakur back to life! Using hologram technology, the musicians have awakened a level of consciousness that many would argue died with Tupac. However, the performance at Coachella 2012 is not merely an extension of […]

George Zimmerman appeared before a Seminole County, FL judge today, where his arraingment was set for May 29th. Are you happy that Zimmerman has been arrested and charged? Do you think he will receive a fair trial?

Have you heard the harrowing story of Howard Morgan, a black off-duty cop who was shot 28 times by four Chicago police officers, survived, and was then charged with attempted murder? Morgan is to be sentenced tomorrow; he faces 80 years in prison. Sign a petition demanding his freedom!

After much speculation over a grainy police video released last week – showing a seemingly scratch-less George Zimmerman arriving at the Sanford Police Station – an enhanced video has been released today, showing injuries on Zimmerman’s head.

Kevin Powell, Akila Worksongs, MoveOn.org & ColorofChange.org hosted a Justice 4 Trayvon rally at the historic House of the Lord church in Brooklyn, NY, where I performed “A Song for Trayvon” backed by singers, featuring Inyang Bassey and a live band. My emotions almost got the best of me but I held it together, this […]

When my mom first told me she was a lesbian, I was 16 years old and in my Junior year of high school. I remember she asked my older sister and me to come into the living room because she wanted to talk. She looked so serious and slightly concerned that my best guess was […]

According to a recent report, the rate of HIV infections among Black women is five times higher than originally thought; comparable to infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa. How do we curb this epidemic?

Wisconsin’s controversial voter ID law, hailed as the ‘toughest in the nation,’ has been halted by Judge David Flanagan, pending an upcoming trial that will determine if it will be done away with altogether. Can we successfully stop the GOP-led assault on voting in time for the 2012 elections?

Shockingly, Howard Morgan, a former police officer, was found guilty of attempted murder of the 4 Chicago cops that shot him 28 times (21 times in his back). Mr. Morgan miraculously lived and was acquitted in 2007 on two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm. […]

THE COURT: In answer to the question did Loyd Jowers participate in a conspiracy to do harm to Dr. Martin Luther King, your answer is yes. Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant? Your answer to that one is also yes. In 1977 […]