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Florida State Attorney Angela Corey has lost her reelection bid, making her the first incumbent state attorney in modern history to lose a contested election, according to The Florida Times Union. Corey was the attorney who failed to convict George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin. Corey also brought aggravated assault charges against Marissa […]

This might be the most lit account of cultural appropriation ever. In the video below, poets Crystal Valentine and Aaliyah Jihad serve all the realness with “Hide Your Shea Butter,” a piece about the ways that white people continue to steal Blackness and Black Culture for their own ends.

In a letter Dean of Students in the College John Ellison informed incoming first year students at the University of Chicago to expect an environment committed to freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression. He additionally warns students not to expect “intellectual safe spaces where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their […]

This piece was originally written by William Evans, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of BlackNerdProblems.com. ***Trigger Warning For Sexual Assault***There was a point a few years ago where I wanted to be done with period films and TV shows. Either they had so few Black people in them it was as if we were to believe they […]

Kouren-Rodney Thomas, 20, had moved down to Raleigh, NC with his family to find somewhere safer for him to grow up than New York. Unfortunately, a neighborhood watchman who was “securing his neighborhood” fatally shot Thomas early Sunday morning. 

Trigger Warning: This story contains descriptions of abortion. Last Friday, the Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed feticide charges against Purvi Patel, a woman accused of self-inducing an abortion. In 2013, Patel had ingested abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy and checked into a hospital due to an inordinate amount of bleeding. She told the staff […]

It is always great to see young people in the spotlight using their platforms to activate others in the name of justice and equality. That is exactly what Yara Shahidi, who plays the oldest daughter on the hit show Black-ish, is doing. 

Yesterday, my partner and I planned a day trip. We were thinking about just getting away from it all after a tough week of violence against Black people and the racist mainstream news cycle to accompany it. We looked up some spots that were within an hour driving distance from Chicago, thinking this might be […]

[Warning: This post contains graphic content.] Alton Sterling, 37, was shot by Baton Rouge, LA police officers outside of a convenience store he was selling music in front of early Tuesday morning. Video taken by witnesses show Sterling being  stunned and thrashed around by officers, pinned to the ground and having a gun pointed at […]

**Trigger warning: this story describes violence against a Black trans woman and her murder.** Trans women continue to be targeted for violence, hatred, and harm in the United States. Sadly, these issues and altercations all too often end in homicide. The fourteenth known trans person was killed in New Orleans on June 9th. Her name […]

Trigger warning: This story details police violence against a teenage Black woman. There are links to videos of the physically violent arrest. A recent video posted to Facebook showed the brutal arrest of a 18-year-old woman, identified by local news media as Genele Laird, outside of the East Towne Mall in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday, according to […]

Not a single person on the planet enjoys getting tickets. They throw off your schedule, too many can ruin your driving record and the money spent paying them off can seriously add up. When Lavante Dell was pulled over for his tinted windows, all of these thoughts likely went through his mind. When Westland Police Officer Joshua […]