An Arizona court has sided with a transgender woman who was convicted of prostitution simply for walking down the street.
Selma director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo have joined forces to develop a Hurricane Katrina drama.
New York Times columnist, Charles Blow, received the phone call he had always dreaded. His son was held by gunpoint on Yale’s campus.
On Wednesday, Jay Z weighed in on New York Governor Cuomo’s initiative to improve police and community relations.
Former workers in three McDonald’s locations in Northern Virginia, say that they were fired for being people of color. Some were told by management that they “need to get the ghetto out of the store.”
On yesterday’s The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore got down to the bottom line: Bill Cosby is guilty.
At 3 pm E.S.T, the State of the Black Union will be released online by Black Lives Matter. The pre-recorded response to President Obama’s speech, will include representatives from Dream Defenders, Trans Women of Color Collective and Justice League NYC.
If there’s one thing that people who haven’t been living under a rock know, it’s to never, ever come for the Beyoncé. It is a loosing battle. You will not win. But Mike Huckabee didn’t get this message. Huckabee is upset that Barack Obama allows his daughters to listen to Queen Bey.
A member of the National Guard was shocked when she went to a local range for target practice.
“We must muster outrage over the routine dehumanization that happens in our criminal-justice system, rather than reserve it for the most extraordinary instances of injustice, if we are to maintain a movement for change,” writes Jonathan Rapping at the Nation.
“The state of Florida, it appears, is ground zero for the deaths of prisoners, and the crisis is so deeply corrupt and out of hand that it needs immediate national intervention,” writes Shaun King.
“The media representation of mental illness constantly excludes, ignores and silences people of color,” writes Dior Vargas for the Huffington Post.
