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  Medical students from more than 70 U.S. schools organized a die-in Wednesday in support of the nationwide protests condemning a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri. Participants say the same structural racial that is present in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in […]

  Graphic new video of a homeless man fatally shot by Michigan police in 2012 has been released. Milton Hall, 49, was facing eight members of the Saginaw police force and a K-9 dog in a parking lot. Hall, who was mentally ill, was holding a pen knife. Officers fired 46 shots at Hall as he […]

  The director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the agency will dispatch response teams to hospitals in the country who have had cases of Ebola on its premises. The C.D.C. also said it plans on a more robust response to any future cases of the deadly disease. 

    Julie Atwood was standing at her son’s casket when the phone rang. New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, the place where her son’s funeral was to be held the following day, was on the other line. What they told her was shocking.

  The following post originally appears on RedEye under the title, “End the ban on gay blood donors.” It was written by Zach Stafford.  By: Zach Stafford The first time I tried to give blood, I was turned away. It was my freshman year of college. A friend in my dorm told me about an […]

The following piece originally appeared on Black Star Journal under the title of, “Have Black Girls Been Overlooked?” It was written by By Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. By: Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Recent test scores, statements from parents and Black girls, and visits to urban school districts have shown that we’re in the midst of a crisis among […]

A man who spent 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is free. Stanley Wrice says Chicago police beat a confession of a 1982 rape out of him. According to Cook County prosecutors, Wrice is not only free, but will not be retried for the crime.

The war on drugs is very real. Many of the country’s prison population is serving hard time behind bars due to their involvement in the drug game. Thousands on inmates are serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences for offenses that are as small as possession of a crack pipe or a smudge of heroin in a bottle cap.

According to a recent study, an advocacy group for juvenile sentencing reform, Black males are grossly overrepresented among juveniles that are sentenced to life without parole in the United States. Of all juveniles that are sentenced to life without parole, 97 percent are male, and 60 percent are Black. Learn more at BlackYouthProject.com!