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The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission has filed a restraining order against Black Lives Matter Los Angeles activist Trevor Gerard. 

South Carolina State Representative Chris Corley has been a vocal supporter of both the Confederate flag and the Second Amendment, even after Dylann Roof killed nine people in a South Carolina church.  It surely made him popular with a portion of the state’s citizens who feel the same. Corley was arrested Monday after a domestic […]

One the reasons so many of the historical acts of violence against Black people in the United States go unanswered is due to statutes of limitations and other legal barriers to achieving equal justice for these crimes. President Obama is addressing this problem just as he prepares to leave office in 2017.

**This post references extremely graphic materials which may be triggering. Topics: racism, sexism, death, bestiality, misgendering**   To say that the language coming out of the Donald Trump campaign this election season has been obscene, racist, and sexist is an understatement. It has reached every depth of disgusting that political language could possibly reach (*cough* “p-ssy […]

Yesterday morning, activist, creator and co-founder of Safety Pin Box Leslie Mac found her Facebook account temporarily suspended after writing the following post: The post appears to be related to the Adam Saleh/Delta Airlines controversy. Mac took to Twitter to express her frustration, explaining to her followers that the post was likely flagged after actor […]

The competition was thick for the Best Comedy Series award at the Critics Choice Awards. The category was filled to the brim with well-received series, including Donald Glover’s Atlanta, which fans and critics alike have raved about for months. When it was announced that Silicon Valley would walk away with the award, Lakeith Stanfield, who plays ‘Darius’ on the […]

This evening, the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers will head to Madison Square Garden to play a New York Knicks team that’s looking to further prove itself as a legitimate competitor in the East. But neither of these are the main storyline of the night. Instead, the biggest pre-game headline concerns what’s happening long before tip-off. LeBron James […]

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 […]

Last week, amidst all the drama about Mike Pence being booed at Hamilton, white collar criminal and President Elect Donald Trump settled his fraud case in which he was facing three lawsuits, two in California, as well as charges from New York’s State Attorney General. He paid $25 million to his former “students” who had […]

By: Imani J. Jackson I want Scott Mescudi, better known as rapper Kid Cudi, to be okay – for himself, for his family, for his loved ones and for those who sought – and for those who will seek professional assistance like he did — when their burdens are too weighty, complex, and repeated to […]

The historically Black, Washington D.C. located Howard University has been the home to celebrities ever since it opened its doors in the mid-19th century – including celebrities who enrolled in classes after reaching the height of their celebrity. The latest to do so is none other than actor and television host Nick Cannon. Cannon has […]

Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager was released during my first semester in college.  After looking forward to it for weeks, I played it on my laptop as soon as it came out. When it was over, I turned to my roommate and asked for his thoughts. He admitted that it was […]