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by JeCorey Holder

A recent study by the Brookings Institute on poverty last year shows that for the 4th year in a row, overall poverty numbers in America are falling. The catch, however, is that the decline isn’t spread evenly.

This week, the Carolinas were hit by a category 4 storm, Hurricane Florence. As rivers continue to rise, the total death toll is officially at 32. Among those who died, two women who were mental health patients and detainees, and were shackled inside a Sheriff’s van, drowned as law deputies were rescued.

From Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein to media giant Les Moonves, the #MeToo movement to hold accountable the abuses of powerful men is growing. In a powerful display of that growth, McDonald’s workers went on strike to protest sexual harassment in 10 U.S. cities this past Tuesday.

by Indigo My younger brother and I are three years apart. Like most siblings relatively close in age, we quarreled frequently as children. When it came to our extracurricular activities we were rivals. He has always been much more athletic than me, and he excelled at sports. I have always been a high achieving student, […]

By Brittani McNeill It is common knowledge that Black children are on the low end of an ever widening racial achievement gap in this country. It’s even becoming more widely acknowledged that systemic problems and institutional neglect, as opposed to simply personal or even parental shortcomings, lead to this problem. An examination of this achievement […]

A group of activists who stopped traffic ahead of the Dallas Cowboys game to protest police violence on Sunday night were arrested and hit with a misdemeanor obstructing traffic charge. The group, dubbed the Dallas 9, was originally part of a larger demonstration against recent episodes of police brutality in the Dallas area.

by Josh Rivers Content Warning: This essay includes discussion and description of sexual violence, with details that could be triggering. “You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognise that our wars are the same. What we must do […]

Wichita, Kansas-based Cargill Meat Solutions agreed to pay a $1.5 million settlement to 138 Somali-American Muslims who were denied prayer breaks and subsequently fired after they protested at its Fort Morgan, Colorado beef processing plant.

A two-week run of terror has finally ended after police apprehended 35-year-old Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the United States Border Patrol and charged him with the murders of 4 women who were all sex workers. Police were tipped off when a fifth would-be victim escaped from Ortiz at a Texas gas station.

We live in a society that is sexually repressive and at the same time oversaturated with reminders of sex. They say that “sex sells”—or, rather, sexually objectifying women and feeding into misogynistic male fantasy about power, control, and sexual prowess sells—and yet, Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown was barred from speaking on the House floor […]

by Andrew Keahey Though there were many films that came before it, there are few Black horror films more revered than the 1992 classic Candyman, starring the frighteningly well-cast Tony Todd. Based on the short story “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker, Candyman is the dark tale of a graduate student doing research on urban legends, […]