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“Black Men Arrested At Starbucks Said They Were There For 2 Minutes Before 911 Call” — The Huffington Post The headlines blaze, sear into your consciousness, don’t let up, suffocate. Eventually they begin to blend together, but each individually shapes you into a better activist, or so you once hoped. Hope is why you spread […]

A white person who calls the police on a Black person—without legitimate threat to person, property or loved ones—greatly increases the odds that the Black person will be harmed or killed. Last Thursday, a white female Starbucks employee called the police on two Black men in the Philadelphia store. Multiple reports state that a Starbucks employee […]

By Gloria Oladipo All college students have experience being tired and stressed due to the variety of issues at schools. However, for Black students, feelings of weariness and mental exhaustion are exacerbated when anti-Black events occur on campus. Since enrolling at Cornell University last August, the following “racial incidents” have occurred: “Build a Wall” was […]

by Da’Shaun Harrison Disclaimer: this piece was written with the intent to create a productive dialogue around intimacy and attraction. It is not to say that the connection between barber and client is inherently sexual, but rather that the erotic/intimacy/attraction operate on a spectrum.

Last fall, experts from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health mentored American medical experts in hopes of solving infant mortality issues in the United States. Kaiser Health News reported how the Cuban health care practitioners partnered with American practitioners to study reproductive and general health issues in Chicago’s Englewood community. While the island nation’s infant […]

As NFL training camps get started, teams are starting to get a feel for what their final 52-man rosters will look like once the regular season kicks off. This is the time of year where players are cut, replaced, traded and then some for teams to get what they feel is the best group possible. […]

Dyne Suh was on her way up to a cabin in Big Bear, California when the owner decided to refuse the accommodation. Why? Because she refused to rent to “foreigners” and this is “why we have Trump.”

Marshawn Lynch is really trying to make a difference in the lives of young people. To offer some community support, a barbershop owned by Marshawn Lynch is offering free haircuts to students who come in with their report cards.

What is it about shopping that gets racists so worked up all the time? Is it the long lines? Maybe it’s the fact that they’re finally coming face-to-face with the people they hate and can’t hide behind a screen. 

“Am I not human?” This one of the questions Marlon Peterson, a human rights activist and writer, asked during his recent TED Talk. Peterson connects his experiences coming from an immigrant community and family and the ways he was systematically criminalized in the United States. Following his arrest and incarceration, Peterson reflects on how his […]

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, returned to Harvard University to get the degree he left behind when he dropped out nearly 12 years ago. At the age of 33, Zuckerberg is the youngest person to deliver the commencement address at the Ivy League university. And he used this opportunity to speak to his […]

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is the latest supporter of the growing belief that adding a federal police presence will curb gun violence. CNN reports that Pughhe has asked the FBI to help decrease the city’s growing murder rate, which has reached more than 100 deaths in April for the first time in two decades.