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Dee Whigham, 25, has been identified as the murder victim found in a Mississippi hotel. The registered nurse sustained multiple stab wounds and was found in a hotel room shared with friends in St. Martin, MI, making her the latest transgender person on record to be murdered in the United States this year.

Action Following the Summit on the Status of the Black WCTV News, Staff Writer, July 3, 2011 Still in the Black Hadlee Simons, IAfrica, July 3, 2011 Youth doesn’t hold back Lang Staff Writer, Muskego Now, July 3, 2011 Letter to Generation X Ellis Washington, WND News, July 2, 2011 Youth Mobilise for the Defence […]

Too often, in our hasty gestures of doling out ally and wokeness credits, we fail to turn a critical lens to the ways that performative activism rarely metes out actual social change. And while Colin Kaepernick’s recent activist work seems to be more than performance, recent protests on his behalf and his continued fight to […]

A Georgia cop was recorded making a tasteless joke about how police officers “only kill Black people” while trying to talk a woman out of her car, according to CNN. This is the United States in 2017.

By Jordan DeLoach, Darya Nicol and Samantha Master   Black people: we love and we see you. Black organizers and our accomplices are fighting back against the white supremacist, pro-fascist “alt-right, ” including those who descended on Charlottesville, VA this past weekend. Their intent was to violently intimidate those seeking to tear down, once and […]

One of the earliest lessons I learned as child was “you can’t win if you don’t try.” The logic showed me that the critical ingredient to success was actually doing something to be successful. Now, as I look at the repeated miscarriages of justice where it concerns slain and oppressed Black people in the United […]

St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez faces up to 20 years in prison for shooting Philando Castile in July 2016. The first 10 years would be the maximum sentence for manslaughter.

By Kristian Davis Bailey In December 2016, I visited the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro. Students had been occupying UFF for 45 days, with some sleeping inside barricaded academic buildings 24/7 to shut the university down. The UFF Occupation was one of 1,000 national occupations protesting Michel Temer’s right-wing presidential coup and […]

Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II will not face any federal charges for shooting Alton Sterling in 2016. 

In July 2016, Charles Kinsey was shot by a North Miami police officer while laying on the ground with his hands raised. The officer who shot him claimed that he couldn’t tell if the autistic patient Kinsey was sitting next to was armed or simply holding a toy truck, which was the case. A new […]

By: J. Skyler Since Trump took office, we have seen a widespread assault on civil liberties, fueled by racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, ableist and transphobic neo-nazi rhetoric that has left those of us who live in the margins of American society petrified. From the planned repeal of the Affordable Care Act, to the environmental disaster of […]

Authored by Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Tracye A. Matthews, Mary Phillips, and Robyn C. Spencer This article is a part of a two-part series. See Part 2 here. The Black Panther Party (BPP) has declared 2016 the #yearofthePanther, a year with nationwide events to “reclaim the history and legacy of the BPP and to connect with […]