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Zena Stephens is currently running for Sheriff of Jefferson County, Texas. According to her Twitter profile, she’s the third Democrat and only the fourth person overall to be a candidate for this position. She’s also a black woman, which apparently doesn’t sit well with some. Stephens’ office was the target of a racially motivated shooting where a […]

Texas administrators have instructed faculty members to steer clear from teaching controversial course material for “safety concerns” due to a new law which allows people to carry concealed handguns on college campuses.

Back in mid-2015, a video surfaced on the Internet that appeared to show Planned Parenthood employees discussing the illegal sale of fetal tissues to undercover activists. Well, a Texas grand jury has indicted the two responsible for making the video on multiple counts.

The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland this summer is finally, in some measure, being held accountable for his actions.

After a year of investigation, a grand jury, on Monday, chose not to indict Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the Cleveland patrolmen involved in the shooting and death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.

On Monday, President Obama laid the groundwork for longterm changes in rehabilitating and reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals in the United States. Proposing seven new measures, President Obama seeks to destigmatize those who have been convicted of crimes while providing equity across employment, education, and housing access for all citizens. The most popular of his announced […]

Last night around 8pm, a twenty-something year-old White male walked into the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. He came there with a loaded gun and at least five rounds of ammunition. As the twelve Black men, women, and children who were present in that church prayed and invited this man into their […]

By Jay Dodd News broke over the weekend of a Dallas suburb police officer terrorizing a group of Black and Brown kids attending a swimming party in an affluent neighborhood’s community pool. The graphic video depicts Corporal Eric Casebolt dragging a Black girl across a yard, shoving her to the ground and waving his gun […]

  Two suspects have been charged in the brutal gang rape of a teenage girl in Texas who went public about the crime after discovering the attack on social media. The girl, known as Jada found out she had been sexually assault via the #JadaPose tag. 

  The following piece is from EBONY. It was written by Jason Johnson. By: Jason Johnson Mario Puzzo’s generation-spanning opus provides a great allegory for considering the selection of a US Attorney General.  In the Godfather films, the consigliere is the mob family lawyer-they handle the dirty business, the laws, the cops, the judges to keep the family clean, […]

      Thanks to Texas’s strict voter ID law, the number of disenfranchised voters has surged in the state.

  A Waller, Texas police officer has been placed on leave after video of him pepper-spraying a student surfaced. Officer Adolphus Cannon is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation by the Waller Police Department.