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With the amount of talk on Twitter already, it looks like Netflix may have the next big cultural touchstone on its hands. 

In 1995, the University of California ended race-based enrollment practices meant to balance out its student population. As a result, the current percentage of Black students enrolled in lower than 3 percent. More than 20 years later, UC Berkeley took a step towards affirming its black student population by opening the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center.

Whether you’re driving past the expressway or walking down State Street, every Chicagoan knows the familiar sound of drumsticks clanging on plastic buckets. These street performers, which are almost always young Black men, are commonly referred to as “bucket boys” and mostly accepted as a part of the city’s culture. Apparently, a select portion of […]

The delivery of threats to inflict harm on black bodies may evolve with the times, but the tools used in these threats – such as masks, firearms and anonymity – have always been staples. A video began circulating online of an individual wearing a Donald Trump mask, wearing a t-shirt that read “My president is white” and brandishing […]

Milo Yiannopoulos, the voice and leader of the”alt-right”/neo-Nazi movement, has had his book cancelled by Simon & Schuster after audio was released of him joking about pedophilia. It seems that he’s finally gone too far for the controversy to sell. 

2017 has already been a rough year for Uber. After dealing with the #DeleteUber campaign following the president’ Muslim Ban, the company worked diligently to get ahead of the controversy only to find itself in another. 

Chad Robertson, 25, died in a Chicago hospital a week after being shot in the back while fleeing from a pair of Amtrak police officers outside of Union Station. His death was ruled a homicide and a result of a gunshot wound to the back, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. 

On Saturday, Donald Trump (for the third weekend in a row) jet-setted off to Florida on the taxpayer’s dime to hold a campaign-style rally where he whined, stirred up sentiments against the media and indulged in his supporters blind admiration of him.

Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) are referred to as such because they’re mostly just that and the gap between them and most diverse schools is quite considerable. To address this disparity in racial representation, Black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made demands of their University. They are not playing games. According to The Associated Press, […]

JoJo Striker, 23, was found murdered in Toldeo, Ohio last Wednesday. The black transgender woman is the third trans murder victim on record in 2017, all three of which have been people or color, according to Fusion.

A 19-year-old student at Spelman College is making history by throwing her hat into the arena of Georgia politics, joining Myya D. Jones as another young person diving head first into local politics. 

Cook County prosecutors decided to not press charges against Officer Robert Rialmo for shooting Qunitonio LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor Bettie Smith, 55, the day after Christmas in 2015.