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There’s a new app on the market, and it’s meant to keep police conduct honest and protect civilians. “Cop Watch” was created by Darren Baptiste, 46, a professional app developer based in Canada. 

Keisha Thomas remembers it like yesterday. It was June 1996, and 17 Ku Klux Klan members held a rally in Ann Arbor, Mich. Hundreds of locals arrived on the scene to protest the KKK’s presence as police protected the Klansman.

A 9-year-old boy was removed from his family after his father pleaded for help with the boy on national television. Minnesota District Judge Joseph Klein declared the boy a “child in need of protection or services” He also ordered therapy for the boy and his parents while officials determine what kind of help the boy needs.

Robin Thicke, along with producer Pharell Williams and T.I. have filed suit against the family of Marvin Gaye to protect their massive summer hit “Blurred Lines.” The Gaye estate contends that Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” sounds way too similar to the Gaye classic “Got to Give It Up.”

Sandra Arnold, a history student at Fordham University, has created a database that allows participants to mark the burial sites of slaves, thus protecting them from being trampled by time and construction projects. This is a fantastic and vital initiative.

One year ago today, Trayvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman. How can we work so that the deaths of youth like Martin, and the countless others whose names we don’t know, are not in vain?

A Utah sixth-grader was arrested after bringing a gun to school to protect himself in the event of a school shooting. Witnesses say the boy either p0inted the gun at students on the playground, or threatened them with it verbally. Is this further proof that this country needs gun control?

My maternal grandparents were Black Panthers in Oakland. They loved and partied and organized and fought the government and did it all over again. My paternal grandparents came from Alabama, joined the city’s Black Baptist community, and bought a house here in the 1970s. Rent parties were part of my childhood, and I remember the […]

By: Daniel Johnson As the Women’s National Basketball Association marks its 30th, and arguably best season to date, the league’s labor union delivered a landmark collective bargaining agreement in women’s sports. The transformative CBA had the effect of allowing the league’s athletic workers to continue the player-centric momentum which was started in earnest in July […]

By: Amber Butts   There’s always a reason the dead had to die. This country is very practiced at explaining itself, searching the dead for a reason before it admits to killing them, rifling through whatever they left behind. Alex Pretti was thirty-seven years old, an ICU nurse in Minneapolis protesting federal immigration raids when […]

By: Jari Bradley Legend has it that, as a child, I hated dresses. I was just entering kindergarten and someone thought it would be fitting to adorn me in red ruffles for the first day of school. On my way past the stairs to my kindergarten classroom, a middle-aged Latina woman with curly black hair […]

by: Amari Murray The first time I noticed the change, it was in the mirror. Not my reflection – hers. We were getting ready to go out, Beyonce’s “Diva” spilling from a speaker on the dresser while the bass vibrated softly through the bedroom walls. Clothes covered nearly every inch of the bed: a black […]