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Comic book publishers have been playing some serious catch-up after decades of characters that were mostly white men filled their pages. The latest step towards a better, more representative future falls in the middle of Iron Man’s storyline. According to a TIME exclusive interview with Bendis, a black girl named Riri Williams will be holding down the […]

Drake was MIA at this week’s BET Awards and it may have been because he was shooting a new video for his song “One Dance” in South Africa. He also made an appearance at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg to speak to a room full of people about staying self-motivated and leaving a […]

The McKinney, Texas cop who tackled and assaulted a teenage black girl in a viral video last June will not be charged with a crime, citing a lack of evidence. Despite the fact that thousands of people, near and far, bore witness to the officer’s unhinged cruelty to a young black girl, our broken justice system once […]

A pair of young boys in Ford Heights, IL are now being credited for saving the life of a 9-year-old girl that was in the middle of a kidnapping by a park district employee. Thanks to them, the girl was safely returned to her family after a presumably traumatizing experience. 

Teens, tweens, and millennials, how do you get your news? Are you looking up New York Times on your phone? Are you buying the Chicago Tribune or the Star-Ledger off of the newsstands when they are hot off the press? It seems, that the old ways of getting news are becoming more and more a […]

The metaphorical dust has settled in Flint, MI following a water crisis that led to possible lead poisoning of tens of thousands of residents and it’s time for lawsuits to make some headway. Unfortunately, one of the first suits that was brought to court ended in tragedy. Sasha Avonna Bell, a woman who claimed her […]

It was only a couple of months ago that we found out that the Smithsonian was creating an African-American museum. To make the news even better, now we know who the architect is. Her name is Zena Howard, and she is a dope Black woman architect.

In a thirty second video, an elementary student from Texas breaks down the classist structure of America’s criminal justice system. His take down of the system occurred during a school debate, and so far this viral video has received over 66,000 retweets.

Kayla, 19, and Keonna Davis, 21, are making local history with their new business venture. The two sisters have become the youngest owners of a beauty-supply-store in California, according to the Root.

Cherelle Baldwin, 24, has been found innocent by a jury of 12 on charges of murdering her abusive ex-boyfriend. In May 2013, Baldwin crashed her car into Brown in self-defense and has been in jail on $1 million bond ever since, facing up to 60 years in prison, according to Huffington Post. Baldwin reportedly fell to […]

At this point, it seems like the only thing to ask Amandla Stenberg is “What else?” Fox 2000 has won a bidding war for Angela Thomas’ debut novel The Hate U Give with George Tillman Jr. coming to direct the film, and Amandla Stenberg to star in it.

This is not the movement of our grandparents or even our parents. While many in the Baby Boomer generation were concerned with respectability in their politics, our generation is primarily concerned with liberation for all — even those of us who are considered “unrespectable.” The Black Youth Project and BYP100 came together to highlight what […]