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From the Guardian: The apparent lynching of a young man in the Dominican city of Santiago has reignited fears of a looming humanitarian crisis. The body of a man, apparently of Haitian descent, was found hanged from a tree in a city park, his body beaten and his hands and feet bound by rope.  Police […]

Laverne Cox of ‘Orange is the New Black’ fame is set to co-star in ‘Drama’, an new legal drama on CBS. From the Hollywood Reporter: Laverne Cox is going from Litchfield Penitentiary to the courtroom. The Orange Is the New Blackbreakout has been tapped to co-star in CBS’ buzzy legal dramaDoubt, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The drama […]

Watch this video of an earnest Kanye West before the drop of his debut album, ‘College Dropout’. h/t Uproxx

On Kanye West, Azealia Banks and a call for a deeper reading of their rage. By Jay Dodd Kanye’s narrative has been riddled with often sloppily generalised tantrums. While we must hold him accountable to his “seat at the table aspirations,” we often, as consumers of his frequency of Blackness, only hear him as whiny child begging […]

From The Advocate: New Orleans trans advocates say they have been left stunned by the death of Penny Proud, one of their city’s young, black trans residents, the latest casualty in the ongoing national trend of antitrans violence that has seen five trans women of color killed within the first five weeks of 2015. Proud, […]

Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19 were gunned down last night near the campus of UNC Chapel Hill. Sources told local news that the family had been shot execution style. The alleged shooter is Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, a white, self-identified atheist. Deah Barakat […]

From NY1: Law enforcement sources tell NY1’s Dean Meminger that rookie officer Peter Liang has been indicted in the shooting death of Akai Gurley. Gurley was shot to death in a dark stairwell at the Pink Houses in East New York on November 20. Investigators say rookie officer Peter Liang was holding his gun in […]

Al Sharpton doesn’t think that young people have a movement. He said as much in a recent Washington Post profile. This: “The issue with my generation is we’re more about the Occupy organizing model,” she told Sharpton now. “You know, everyone can be a leader, that kind of thing.” “I hear them saying that,” Sharpton […]

In less than 12 hours, Kendrick Lamar’s new single, ‘The Blacker the Berry’ has been played more one million times. His new song is an incisive look at racism in America. With a million listens in less than 24 hours, it’s safe to say this is Kendrick’s next hit. h/t Colorines Photo: Screenshot/Youtube    

Recognizing how mainstream LGBT and racial justice movements have often ignored the issues that young Black LGBT people face, BYP100 seeks with this video, and future mobilization efforts, to broaden the narrative of what’s at stake for Black people in the LGBT rights movement. At the same time we want to push the mainstream civil […]

This is selfie culture gone horribly wrong. Sixteen-year-old Maxwell Morton has been charged in connection with the death of Ryan Mangan, also sixteen. Morton was charged after a woman came forward and claimed that her son received a Snapchat from Morton showing a selfie with Mangan’s shot, slumped over body. The woman claimed that the […]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award winning Nigerian author, has been nominated for a Grammy. The award nod comes from her credit on the song “Flawless” on Beyoncé’s self-titled album. The song contains a sample of Adichie’s ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ TEDxEuston speech. Watch Beyoncé discuss Adichie’s influence on the making of “Flawless” below: h/t OkayAfrica    Photo: Chimamanda Ngozi […]