by Andrew Keahey When I was young, I would intentionally avoid black and white television, except for The Twilight Zone. The show just hit all the right notes for me, even in my childhood. The wildly fantastic tales hosted by the slick man with the cigarette was part of the reason I got into writing […]
Texas Democratic voters are complaining that their votes for a straight party ticket are being switched in some counties to a vote for Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Some Republican voters are also reporting that their ballot selections for Ted Cruz are switching over to Democratic nominee Beto O’Rourke. Texas election officials are saying that they […]
In the same week which has seen the attempted mail bombing of prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Maxine Waters and the shooting of two Black customers at a Louisville Kroger, there has been yet another attack by an alleged white supremacist. This time the target was a Jewish synagogue and community in Pittsburgh.
by JaLoni Amor Owens For many Americans, one of the only days that left the nation feeling as hopeless and defeated as it did on November 8, 2016 was the day after. Those on the left, whether or not Secretary Clinton was their first choice for President of the United States and whether or not […]
One day after the Saudi government denied killing U.S. based Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been critical of it, the New York Times is reporting that they are now calling the murder of Khashoggi premeditated, as the Turkish government had already been claiming. This represents the latest in a shifting story weaved by […]
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
XXXTentacion, a young prominent South Florida rapper who died this past June, is still the cause of controversy as new details of his domestic abuse case that was ongoing at the time of his death have emerged.
A 14 year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could spell the largest offshore enivornmental disaster in American history.
“Internalized anti-Blackness has us quick to condemn, erase, and humiliate ourselves and our ancestors more than we do the people who did the actual enslaving” — Chelsea Neason My grandmother lived a long life, but I can only imagine how much longer it would have been without the struggles she fought through. She used to […]
The highly anticipated debut of Shuri’s solo comic book series penned by Nnedi Okorafor is finally here! While it does carry on some of the previous storylines from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther run, as well as those from the Marvel film incarnation of Shuri, Shuri #1 delves deeper into the princess’s inner life. According to […]
A former Green Beret revealed to Buzzfeed News that he engaged in conspiracies to assassinate various figures in Yemen as directed by the United Arab Emirates government. A botched assassination of Anssaf Ali Mayo, the leader of the Islamist political party Al-Islah, considered by the UAE to be a terrorist organization, exposed the use of […]
by Riya Jama The first time I experienced debilitating cramps. It awoke me from sleep. I will never forget how stunned I felt by the intensity of the pain that engulfed my pelvic area, forcing me to crawl on my hands and knees to get help. If I could have screamed, I would have, but […]
