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According to reports from the Verge and the New York Times, on Tuesday Facebook announced that it has found and banned suspicious accounts using what the company calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that may be an attempt to influence the midterm elections in November. Facebook officials who talked to lawmakers say that Russia may again be implicated […]

According to USA Today, basketball superstar LeBron James opened up a school on Monday in Akron, Ohio. The school, called I Promise, is a product of Akron Public Schools teaming up with James’ foundation, The LeBron James Family Foundation, with assistance from JP Morgan Chase Bank and other corporate sponsors. I Promise pledges to support parents […]

I always stop scrolling on his face. I always stare into those puppy dog eyes, aged far beyond their years by hell itself. They stare back in my direction but not at me. Like he was looking for something and I got in the way. Like everything got in the way of what he was […]

17-year-old Palestinian resistance activist Ahed Tamimi was released from prison on Sunday by Israeli forces. Tamimi was arrested and served an eight-month sentence after a video of her slapping Israeli soldiers went viral. Her case received international condemnation and sparked countless protests.

According to the Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian immigration officials are using DNA testing sites to trace migrants’ nationalities.

The City of Philadelphia is ending a major contract it had with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE which allowed ICE to collect data from an arrest database kept by local law enforcement. Both protestors and city officials agree that ICE has been abusing the data from law enforcement officials to target suspected […]

Elbert Howard, one of the original six members of the Black Panther Party, formally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, has died at the age of 80 years old. Howard had been sick for a number of years, according to his wife Carol Hyams who confirmed his death to the Associated Press. Howard had been […]

By L.N. Lewis I visit a certain website almost monthly, reading names and cross-checking news stories. It is a stark spreadsheet, a database of nightmares reaching back to May 1, 2013, titled killedbypolice.net. For April 2018, it lists 418 names. Among them: Shukri Ali Said, aged 36; Elijah James Smith, 20-years-old; and Brenda Jenette Harrison-Bumbray, […]

by Indigo If I were to introduce myself to anyone today, I would introduce myself as Loni. I would introduce myself as a non-binary afro-boricua whose gender pronouns are exclusively they, them, and theirs. I would introduce myself as someone who is unafraid to correct anyone who refers to me by my given name, or […]

Long rumored missing chapters of Malcolm X’s autobiography turned up at an auction this week. Literary scholars had assumed that there were missing chapters of Alex Haley and Malcolm X’s joint effort floating around, but never had they been made available to the general public.

by Tynesha M. McCullers Summer is officially in full swing. With temperatures on the rise and Ella Mai’s “Boo’d Up” in heavy rotation, the thought of having someone to kick it with permeates my mind on a daily basis. As someone who’s been out of the dating scene for over a year now, I turned […]

by Denarii Grace “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” These words, uttered by legendary Black civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, have become as much a part of Black languages and cultural understandings, both past and present, as “lit,” “bumboclaat,” and “the bomb.” Her expression of the ongoing oppression of Black […]