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Friends and loved ones of Bakari Henderson are left shocked after the recent college grad was killed during a drunken brawl in Greece this weekend. They were especially surprised because no one close to him can even imagine him being anything other than a “peacemaker.”

Police arrested four white teenagers for an alleged plot to attack a predominately Black Muslim community, after one of them made an alarming remark to classmates.

by Josie Pickens Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love is equal parts self-help guide and interrogating conversation about body shaming and body terrorism. Taylor’s premise is that if we stop terrorizing our own bodies, we will feel obligated to not only stop terrorizing the bodies others, but […]

  The following post originally appeared on Slate under the title, “Where I’m From: How a trip to Kenya changed the way I think about the terms African-American and black American.” By: Aisha Harris One of the first times I recall being asked the question “Where are you from?” was also one of the first […]

Voula Papachristou, a triple jumper, has been removed from Greece’s track team after making disparaging remarks about African immigrants on her Twitter page.

The Glum and the Restless Jim Tankersley, The National Journal | July 11, 2011 Here’s a fact that should give economists—and maybe President Obama’s political team—heartburn: Two years after the Great Recession officially ended, job prospects for young Americans remain historically grim. More than 17 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds who are looking for work can’t find a […]

1 in 4 Children in US Raised by a Single Parent Associated Press (via The Grio) | April 27, 2011 MIAMI (AP) — One in four children in the United States is being raised by a single parent — a percentage that has been on the rise and is higher than other developed countries, according to […]

Portrait of a Bronx Chess Champion, Age 12 Joy Resmovits, Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2010 When Bronx student Justus Williams started third grade at P.S. 70, his mother, Latisha, urged him to take on chess. The hobby was “less common” than basketball, she said.But Justus wasn’t enthusiastic at first. “I thought I was going […]

Boxing as a sport is a combination of attack and defense techniques with the fists. With roots in Ancient Greece and Rome and more modern forms of the sport originating in England, boxing has been a very widespread phenomenon for a long time.  In the United States, the most skilled and best known boxing athletes […]