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By Kelvin Easiley, Jr July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. This is the time when a laser focus is trained on the various complexities people of color encounter while facing mental health stigma and a shoddy healthcare system.The same healthcare system many people of color approach with grave skepticism. There are many people […]

Ava Le’Ray Barrin is the 14th reported transgender murder victim of 2017. She’s also the youngest to date in a crime trend that disproportionately affects transgender women of color. 

A man in Kansas City, Kansas has been released after spending 16 years in prison over a botched purse snatching that he didn’t even commit. 

Activists and community members have been calling for an adult trauma center on Chicago’s South Side for years. Despite the area’s ongoing issues with a lack of emergency trauma services, it looked like the support would never come. The University of Chicago Medicine announced that an adult trauma center will open in May 2018. DNA Info reports […]

The court proceedings that spurred the #FreeBresha movement have come to a close. Bresha Meadows‘s supporters, including her family and attorneys, attested that she shot her abusive father in an act of self-defense. To reunite with her family, she’s made a deal that could see her return home much sooner. Meadows, 15, has accepted a […]

The Boko Haram extremists have agreed to release 82 schoolgirls who were captured in 2014. Many of the girls’ parents have met in Abuja, Nigeria to reconnect with their daughters while some remained home. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met with the girls early Monday morning before leaving for London.

A group of terrorists – because that’s exactly what they are – are now seeing the consequences of their actions after targeting a child’s birthday party with Confederate flags, threats and firearms. 

Only one more day is left on the 2016 calendar, and it seems as though the world couldn’t be happier about it. From natural disasters to the election of Donald Trump to an overwhelming deluge of celebrity deaths, the past year has been quite the newsmaker with an abundance of poignant lows and only a smattering […]

Starting in 2017, schools in Missouri will no longer handle the aftermath of fights between students internally. According to a new statute, School Resource Officers (SROs) and local authorities will now get involved and students may be charged with a felony. Think Progress originally reported that the new statute will take effect on Jan. 1 and could play […]

What is my nation? When Colin Kaepernick first refused to stand for the national anthem earlier this year, I imagine this question weighed heavily on his mind as well. I imagine he considered how Black people in America were dragged, kicking and screaming, some jumping overboard to certain death rather than facing a future of […]

The National Association of Black Journalists operated with a total deficit of $642,000 from 2013-15. However, an increase in registration for the 2016 NABJ/NAHJ Conference and other decisions made by the executive board have lead to one of the organization’s best financial years in history with a projected $1 million surplus.

Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the fatal arrest of Eric Garner, has been sentenced to four years in prison connected to drug charges and possession of a weapon. According to the New York Daily News, Orta had sold an undercover officer multiple drugs on nine occasions. He was also caught with a .25-caliber handgun.