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Tensions reached a boiling point Sunday evening following the death of an unarmed teen shot by a police officer. The violence ensued after a scheduled rally and vigil in the wake of the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Brown, who was unarmed, was shot to death by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer on Saturday.

According to a new study, white people support harsher criminal laws as long as blacks are the ones getting arrested. The findings come after whites were presented with evidence that our criminal justice system disproportionately targets black people. 

Kanye West has a lot of folks giving him the side eye after some pretty insulting comments by the star were made public recently. The “Jesus Walks” rapper ACTUALLY compared his plight as a celebrity with the paparazzi to that of the Civil Rights movement. 

Film director Spike Lee has erected a memorial outside his Fort Greene studio for Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father of six who died while being arrested by police in Staten Island. Garner died on July 18 after police placed him in a chokehold, an illegal move, for selling loose cigarettes. 

  Tensions are high in Israel, but one angle that isn’t being talked about much is the explosion of racism and extremism. It started shortly after the kidnapping of three Israeli boys in Gush Etzion, that led to an assault in Gaza which has left more than 1,000 dead. 

A University of Maryland basketball player is banned from enrolling in courses after being arrested for stealing an ice cream cone from a convenience store. Trayvon Reed faces charges of second-degree assault, second-degree assault of a police officer, resisting arrest and theft under $100. 

The following post originally appears on The Huffington Post under the title, “This Is What It;’s Like To Lose Your Own Child To Gun Violence.”  By: Annette Nance-Holt (told to Joseph Erbentraut) On May 10, 2007, Annette Nance-Holt lost her only child, 16-year-old Blair, when a gang member opened fire on the Chicago bus he was […]

  The following post originally appears on the Washington Post under the title, “No, college isn’t the answer. Reparations are.”  By: Tressie McMillan Cottom In case you’ve been living under a rock, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations. For some, reparations to African Americans for enslavement and state-sanctioned apartheid […]

Renisha McBride would have needed to consume 10 to 11 shots of vodka in an hour to get her blood-alcohol level to when it was when she lost her life on a Dearborn Heights, Michigan porch. At least that’s what former Chief Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Werner Spitz told jurors during testimony in Theodore […]

  The following post originally appeared on Buzzfeed under the title, “Top 10 Reason Young People Should Get Out and Vote.” By: Jessica N. Smith The 2014 Elections are less than 100 days away, so what better way to exercise your civic duty than by voting, and encouraging people to vote.

The following post originally appears on The Root under the title, “Let’s Stop Describing Ourselves As “Minorities.” By: Hope E. Ferguson   It’s already been two years since May 2012, when we learned that for the first time, U.S. babies born to parents who didn’t identify as white outnumbered those born to parents who did. What this […]

  The parents of a 17-year-old Georgia teen who was found dead in a rolled up gym mat at his high school is suing the district. Kendrick Johnson died in Jan. 2013.