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During the initial chaos following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November, no one quite knew who to blame. So the finger was eventually pointed at everyone from black voters to third party voters to white female voters. As time went on, people eventually focused less on the “How?” and more on the “So, what now?” […]

The United Negro Improvement Association. The Congress of Racial Equity. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Association of Colored Women. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The Black Panther Party. The list of civic organizations that helped shape the course of racial justice in the 20th […]

For many of us, mall Santas are as much a part of the holiday season as anything else. But it would lead to a lot of difficult questions for our families when your house would be full of dark skinned St. Nicholas depictions but the one you’d take pictures with every year looked nothing like […]

I’m in a weird place as a parent and an activist; at what point do I talk to my daughter about the truth behind Thanksgiving or any other holiday draped in an ugly American truth?

“I’m thankful for being born indigenous to this continent,” a powerful statement I could never make; a powerful statement most people that live in this country cannot make, but one young Native American girl did in a video about the truth behind Thanksgiving with a group of 5 of her peers.

By: Imani J. Jackson Conventional wisdom holds that time leads to progress, and that diversified schools, societies and workplaces lead to unlearning racism and celebrating difference. However, old habits die hard.

We watched the debates. We watched his tweets. We watched him bully and intimidate, and still it did not matter. Donald Trump has won the office of the Presidency, as he emboldened white voters across class categories, telling them that he would take their country back for them and that is what he has done.

Clarence Thomas has held a seat on the United States Supreme Court for just a day over 25 years. From one perspective, it could be said that he was the most powerful black man in U.S. politics pre-Obama. From another,  he has a long history of conservative politics and has been accused of sexual harassment. […]

The U.S. Government has will pay 17 Native American tribes $492 million after a legal settlement, according to NPR. The payment is meant to make amends for the mismanaging natural of resources and other tribal assets. The settlement is meant to serve as a compromise between the tribes and the federal government, especially after President Obama promised […]

The semester before I started classes at the University of Missouri, two students were arrested for throwing cotton balls across the lawn of the Black Culture Center. During my second semester there, a student spray-painted the words “N****r Month” on a statue directly outside of my residence hall. A year after I graduated, students finally […]

President Barack Obama nominated Abid Riaz Qureshi to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia according to a statement from the White House. This makes Qureshi the first federal Muslim-Amercan judge in the country. 

By: Associated Press The oldest millennials (AP) — nearing 20 when airplanes slammed into New York City’s Twin Towers – are old enough to remember the relative economic prosperity of the 1990s, and when a different Clinton was running for president. The nation’s youngest adults – now nearing 20 themselves – find it hard to […]