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This post is in partnership with Scholars for Social Justice By Adom Getachew Over the last two decades, Black organizers and activists around the world have moved reparations from the margins to the center of the political agenda. Organizers with the Movement for Black Lives included reparations in their ambitious Vision for Black Lives Platform […]

by Khaaliq Crowder As a Black millennial, I sometimes forget about the advantage that folks of my generation have as opposed to our grandparents and older relatives when it comes to media representation. Black people weren’t always in movies, and when we were, our presence was seldom. My grandparents, who grew in the 1930s and […]

With the November elections right around the corner, the State of Texas has thrown up a roadblock for voters by invalidating around 2,400 online voter registration forms. According to the Houston Chronicle, Unless the voters re-submit updated applications, including new signatures, they will be barred from voting on November 6th. Vote.org, a nonpartisan group which […]

On the heels of Andrew Gillum’s historic Democratic primary win in the Florida governor’s race, an intensely racist in robocall is targeting the Black progressive. Echoing Gillum’s Republican challenger Rob DeSantis, who basically called Gillum a monkey after his win, the robocalls feature an exaggeration of a slave dialect and monkey noises in the background.

According to Buzzfeed News a new bill entitled the Protect and Serve Act has been introduced to Congress that would mandate harsher penalties to people for injuring or attempting to injure police officers. The bill’s backers, which also include at least one Democratic congressman so far, say that the federal government needs to do something […]

One Jacksonville, Florida middle school teacher became his own national teachable moment after feeding students a hot mess hatred soup. David Swinyar of Kernan Middle School reportedly used the “n”-word in class, made ableist remarks (called students dumb), advised them not to date African Americans “because they are not worth it,” and acted in physically aggressive ways […]

PEN America has announced the 2018 crop of books that made its longlist, which is welcome news in the face of the Trump Administration publicly mulling cutting funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. Programs and spaces like PEN America are vital to the preservation of literary freedom and expression, even more so with […]

Black and Brown students should not learn about themselves and their histories only in terms of oppression, as ancillary laborers in colonial tales, or as afterthoughts or tokens. These students should not first learn globalized human stories in college. Education leaders in one northeast state are seeking to address this issue, recently agreeing on a […]

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director, has been fired 10 days into his new role. The move was reportedly the call of John F. Kelly, Trump’s new chief of staff, who was looking to start his own position with a clean slate. 

Remember when politicians weren’t able to attack reporters and still run in an election the very next day? Republican U.S. House candidate Greg Gianforte was issued a citation by a Montana sheriff – who also donated $250 to his campaign – after he “body slammed” a reporter from The Guardian. 

Recently, Bill Brennan, a candidate for New Jersey governor, turned some heads when he shared his opinion on for-profit prisons, according to Salon. 

After months of jumping through legal hoops, Bill Cosby now has a court date. The comedian and actor is set to stand trial for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand. A Pennsylvania court judge ruled that Cosby’s trial would begin on June 5. The trial is slated to last two weeks, according to NBC News. An anonymous jury […]