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Black Lives Matter just made it that much harder for you not to support Black businesses this holiday season. According to the Huffington Post Black Voices, BLM has launched a website that compiles the locations of Black businesses across the United States. BLM believes that backing Black business is a key component of making our voices heard […]

It looks like it doesn’t take a lot to scare airline passengers, as a Muslim man was kicked off of a flight after allegedly speaking Arabic on the phone to his mother and making them “uncomfortable.” Adam Saleh, who is actually a YouTube star with over 2 million subscribers, was on a Delta Airlines flight […]

The United States has a history of selectively ignoring its long history of racial violence against black people, especially the thousands of lynchings that occurred. In order to commemorate these tragedies, the Equal Justice Initiative is working to permanently honor the fallen with a memorial but was having issues raising the funds needed for its construction. […]

The crisis in Aleppo, Syria came to a head this week as President Bashar al-Assad’s military, backed by the Russians, reclaimed the eastern parts of the city held by rebel forces. Human rights abuses abounded as reports came of bodies in the streets and execution style killings of civilians as government forces brutally took back […]

Ten years after an appeals court overturned his sexual assault conviction, Jarrett Adams returned to the court as an attorney. He’s now part of a team looking to overturn the conviction of a man who was sentenced to 89 years after the wife of a retired Chicago Police Department sergeant was found dead, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

Proposals are meant to be memorable, joyous occasions. Most people think moonlit dinner, walks in the park or something really sentimental. But, to all of our surprise, there’s apparently someone out there that thinks police and guns drawn instead. 

The University of Pennsylvania’s English Department announced that it would replace a picture of William Shakespeare with one of a more representative writer. But that was a few years ago, and the picture of Shakespeare remained untouched. So the students decided to do something about it themselves. Students reportedly removed the picture of Shakespeare from […]

Kanye West shocked fans last month when he declared his loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump on stage during his Saint Pablo Tour. He would later be hospitalized citing exhaustion, which many viewed as a sign that he was in the middle of a concerning downward spiral into depression and paranoia. After being released from the […]

Cadillac came under fire after they became the latest company who looked to normalize the “alt-right” [read: Neo-Nazi] movement. The car company primarily saw criticism on social media after a casting call was shared that requested “any and all real alt-right thinkers/believers.”

While discussing “cultural differences” on “The Graham Norton Show,” half-woke starlet Jennifer Lawrence proved once again that the limits of White Feminism are vast. She joked, and even seemed to have a whole comedy routine ready, about her desecration of sacred rocks in Hawaii while filming one of the Hunger Games films.

There’s a common belief that academia is absent of the same racism that can be found in the rest of the world. That comes with the assumption that education is the antithesis of ignorance. But that’s still yet to be proven as the number of hate crimes in the United States has spiked in recent […]

Donald Trump has been named Time‘s “Person of the Year.” It should be noted that the title isn’t “Best Person of the Year” or even “The Most Famous Okay Person of the Year.” But the initial shock that many felt after the announcement is justified. This could easily be seen as another attempt to normalize all […]