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By Kristian Davis Bailey In December 2016, I visited the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro. Students had been occupying UFF for 45 days, with some sleeping inside barricaded academic buildings 24/7 to shut the university down. The UFF Occupation was one of 1,000 national occupations protesting Michel Temer’s right-wing presidential coup and […]

Amazon is deep in an attempt to help the shopping experience evolve and step away from the brick-and-mortar ways of old. With Amazon Prime, subscribers are able to gain free two-day shipping and, in some cases, same-day shipping. However, a study revealed that this service was disproportionately lacking in poorer neighborhoods of color. To remedy […]

San Antonio Police initially misgendered a woman who is now being recognized as the 10th transgender person of color to be killed this year by the Human Rights Campaign.

This article has been cross-posted with permission. Saturday Night Live is what happens when white people enjoy something that’s anti-Black, systematically bigoted, and generally exclusionary to non-whites. SNL producers thought that throwing in a few Black people who we hoped had home-training would fix it. Because that’s not how white supremacy works. It took me a while to […]

Yara Shahidi, the Black-ish actress and soon-to-be star of her own spin-off, is headed to Harvard College this fall. While her character is headed to the fictional California University of Liberal Arts, Shahidi will be on the other side of the country. “I committed to Harvard and I’m really excited!” Shahidi told ET in an interview.

Sybrina Fulton’s life changed forever when her son, Trayvon Martin, was shot dead by George Zimmerman in 2012. Ever since then, she’s gotten deeply involved in social justice work and grassroots organizing to help protect Black lives. Her journey through life may be headed to a new level. 

Kenneth Lopera, a Las Vegas police officer named,  has been arrested on a charge of involuntary manslaughter after killing a Black man named Tashii S. Brown with an unapproved chokehold. 

Bill Cosby’s highly anticipated trial for a 2005 sexual assault has finally started. Cosby has received more than five dozen accusations of sexual assault and rape over five decades. It is not surprise the longtime comedian and cultural icon is far from lacking major support. Yet, Keshia Knight Pulliam who played Cosby’s fictional daughter, Rudy, on The […]

On October 29th 2012, Glenda Moore’s two sons were killed during Hurricane Sandy, the youngest casualties during the storm. I say during rather than of the storm because the death of Moore’s children–Connor, 4 and Brendan, 2–was caused by another type of tempest, one that has gone on far, far longer and is far more […]

Residents in Queens, New York rallied together to try and prevent ICE agents from taking a man into custody on his way to trial. NBC News reports that Hardat Sampat, 35, is an undocumented citizen and a Guyanese national. While he was headed to Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday morning, agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department […]

Seven people have been killed along with another 48 injured following a terrorist attack on the London Bridge. BBC reports that a white van hit multiple pedestrians before the passengers got out and stabbed a number of passersby late Saturday night. Police shot and killed three men who were wearing fake bomb vests. Including a similar […]

Lezley McSpadden never got to graduate high school. Two decades ago, she dropped out of Ladue Horton Watkins High School during her junior year so that she could raise her son, Michael Brown.