Justice Department will file a brief today urging the Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages to resume in California.
After Atlanta teen Orentheal Childs decided to leave a local gang, outraged members shot him 15 times. Miraculously, Orentheal survived and is on the road to recovery.
Openly gay mayoral candidate Marco McMillian was found dead near a Mississippi River levee. McMillian was the first openly gay person to be a viable candidate for public office in the state. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have expressed skepticism regarding a key element of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, specifically a provision that forces states with a history of discrimination to have changes to their election process approved. Seriously?
A recent installment of This American Life takes a closer look at the crisis of gun violence in Chicago’s South and West Sides. following the lives of faculty and students immersed in the systemic obstacles that create and perpetuate the violence that is robbing us of our youth.
According to a recent report, Black students display significant learning gaps by the 2nd grade, and they only grow larger with age. If these trends persist, only 1 in 20 black kindergartners will go on to graduate from a 4-year university. What needs to be done to close this gap?
Zoe Saldana responds to Nina Simone film controversy: “I’m doing it for my sisters and my brothers and I don’t care who tells me I’m not this or I’m not that. I know who I am and I know what Nina Simone means to me.”
Chuck D: “The bottom line is this: Back when I was growing up, you couldn’t find a gun on anybody. Since 1980, the beginning of R&B, Reagan and Bush, there’s been nothing but guns and drugs in the Black community for the last 30-some-odd years.”
The Loyal White Knights – a Ku Klux Klan chapter – has been granted a permit to protest the renaming of three public parks in Memphis, TN. The names of the three parks are all related to the Confederacy.
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?
Former staff members of The Onion have denounced CEO Steve Hannah’s decision to apologize for an offensive tweet about QuvenzhanĂ© Wallis, arguing that it has compromised the staff’s editorial freedom. Do they have a point, or are they missing the point?
The family of 9 year-old rapper Luie Rivera is under investigation by Child Protective Services for possible abuse and neglect. Rivera has starred in a slew of raunchy rap videos in which he makes drug references, dances suggestively, and even slaps a woman’s buttocks.
