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By Jay Dodd    Among Azealia Banks’ unfortunately few poignant and meaningful clap-backs is the occasion she came for Clifford “TI” Harris’s life for defending Igloo.In her 140-character shade, she called TI a coon. A humorously archaic  “slur” is made relevant again as we see its residual mindset permeating many Black men in the music […]

HBO released the full trailer for its biopic ‘Bessie’ starring Queen Latifah and it is everything.  Watch below and catch the full film when it drops on May 16th.   Photo: HBO

The group Women on 20s has been advocating for a woman to be put onto the $20 bill. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller. “We believe this simple, symbolic and long-overdue change could be an important stepping stone for other initiatives promoting gender equality. Our money does say something […]

Maile Hampton, a 20 year-old activist in Sacramento, Ca., was charged with “lynching” for pulling a fellow activist away from a police officer. Hampton was charged under an archaic 1933 California law that was created to prevent people from forcibly taking others from police custody in order to dole out vigilante justice. Clearly the law was written […]

This recently unearthed video shows Kanye and his mother Dr. Donda West, singing an early version of “Hey Mama” together. Donda West died in 2007 from complications stemming from surgery.

North Charleston, S.C. police officer, Michael T. Slager, has been charged with murder. Slager claimed that during a traffic stop, Walter L. Scott took his stun gun and that he shot Scott in self-defense. The story would have stopped there if a video of the incident had not been recorded by an on-looker. The video shows Scott […]

Abdirahim Mohammed Abdullahi, the son of a Kenyan government official, has been identified as one of the gunmen behind the Garissa University attack that left 148 people dead, Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka told the Associated Press. The unnamed chief in Kenya’s Mandera County reported that his son missing last year and said he feared that his […]

  In total, 290 people have been killed during police encounters since the beginning of 2015. The tally kept by the website Killed By Police is much higher than the vastly incomplete FBI statistics. For comparison, the UK has only seen 52 police killings since 1900, reports Shaun King. Yes, since 1900. As March concludes #PhillipWhite is […]

Cosmopolitan has come under fire after this poorly executed beauty list reemerged online. The magazine used black celebrities and models to demonstrate what styles were out of fashion in 2015. This tweet sums up why affirmations like #blackgirlsrock are still necessary: In case you were wondering why we don’t need #whitegirlsrock pic.twitter.com/43cw2ZvECU — ODB (@OlDirtyBarbie) […]

A noose was found hanging from a tree on the Duke campus Wednesday morning. A picture of the noose and statement was posted to the Duke People of Color Caucus Tumblr: “To all black students, staff, faculty, and/or Durhamites on campus and in the area: Please take care of yourselves and each other. This campus is not […]

A new documentary is collecting the stories of the oft-overlooked Afro-Mexican community. From Remezcla: One young filmmaker and anthropology student of Afro-Salvadoran descent, feeling sympathy for the plight of invisible Afro-Mexicans, took it upon himself to make a very independent documentary exploring Afro-Mexican identity in the coastal communities of La Costa Chica — a region […]

By Candice Iloh At the same time every year it seems the whole country focuses in on the same extraordinary black trailblazers of the past. They are the ones that have made the cut into your history books and who have managed to remain on the tongues of even the youngest black kids coming up […]