17 Bullets Ā My first bullet was my warning shot My second bullet was my power shot My third bullet was because my trigger finger couldnāt stop My forth bullet was my pain shot My fifth bullet was for me seeing my own brotherās brain drop
Yesterday,Ā Ras Baraka claimed the mayoral seat of Newark, NJ. Baraka, a councilman and activist, beat law professor Shavar Jeffries for the seat left vacant by Cory Booker, who is now a senator in Washington.Ā Baraka won 54% of the vote.
Parents in a St. Louis school district are upset over a controversial sex education book. The book, made available to students in the Francis Howell School District, is meant for kids 10 years and up.Ā
Nigerian officials defended its response to the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terror group despite details of a second mass abduction emerging.Ā President Goodluck Jonathan has been under fire over accusations the government initially ignored the abduction of the girls. The Nigerian schoolgirls have been the focal point of a massive […]
Members of the NYPD have barged into James Jordan Sr.’s family home looking for him more than a dozen times. Jordan Sr. has been dead for 8 years, and despite his family members posting his death certificate on the front door, police are still invading their home.Ā
Jet Magazine,Ā the pioneering weekly magazine for African Americans that rose to prominence during the civil rights movement, will no longer publish a regular print edition. Johnson Publishing Company, who owns the magazine, will moveĀ JetĀ to a digital format starting in June. Content will be delivered via web and a paid subscription app.
An Arizona teacher has filed a lawsuit againstĀ the Tempe Union High School District after students atĀ Ahwatukee’s Desert Vista High School racially discriminated against her.Ā The suit, filed by Cobb in February, came after a student posted a video to a social media site the month before.Ā
A white college student who doesn’t believe in the existence of racism or white supremacy wrote an essay about why he would never apologize for white privilege. Tal Fortgang says that he’s tired of being told to “check his privilege” by others at his college. Here’s an excerpt of the essay that was published in […]
A Kansas City second grader said his school treated him like a criminal when they handcuffed him for misbehaving on Wednesday. Kalyb Primm Wiley,7, said he was responding to taunts from other children when his teacher called security.Ā
Two sociologists have concluded that parental incarceration plays a role in childhood inequality.Ā The study, which appears in the bookĀ Ā Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality,Ā was conducted by Sara Wakefield of Rutgers University-Newark and Christopher Wildeman of Yale University.Ā
This post originally appeared in EBONY. It was written by Asha French, a writer and mother living in Atlanta. By: Asha French These days, all theĀ kinks are curly, all theĀ chicks are mixed, but some of us just have hair. So Iām not going to harp on the fact that strangers often look at my […]
A retired professional baseball player says he was racially profiled while shoveling the driveway of his Hartford, Connecticut home. Doug Glanville published an op-ed inĀ The AtlanticĀ recounting his experience with a police officer.Ā
