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If this headline sounds familiar, you’re not mistaken. This isn’t the first time that a Chicago Police Department officer has shot an unarmed citizen and been disciplined as an investigation is conducted. The latest officer to lost their police powers is the result of a fatal shooting on the city’s Northwest side on Monday. 

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has decided to relieve an officer of their police powers after the shooting of Kajuan Raye, 19. 

A black New Jersey student body president was stripped of her position after mocking her white male peers on Instagram. Lawrenceville School’s Maya Peterson donned L.L. Bean boots and a Yale University sweater to pose for a photo which she describes as a typical “Lawrenceville boi;” white, cocky and Republican. 

“What’s a faggot?” I gripped the arm of my seat a little harder when “Little,” the character played by the young but demonstrably talented Alex R. Hibbert, asked Juan (played by Mahershala Ali) this question.

From ESPN: Little League Baseball has stripped the U.S. championship from Chicago-based Jackie Robinson West and suspended its coach for violating a rule prohibiting the use of players who live outside the geographic area that the team represents, it was announced Wednesday. Jackie Robinson West must vacate wins from the 2014 Little League Baseball International […]

A Los Angeles woman who was severely beaten by a CHP police officer on the side of a freeway is speaking out. Marlene Pinnock said she feared for her life as the officer pummeled her during an incident that was captured on a cell phone video. 

Here’s a story that takes “shopping while black” to an entirely new level. Bronx native David Golson has filed a lawsuit against two store clerks who suspected him of stealing.

The family of a man who was ran over by a police officer has released a video of the incident. 38-year-old Marlon Brown was killed in May after being pulled over for an alleged seatbelt violation. Officer James Harris was driving the vehicle at the time of his death.

Editor’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of anti-Black and anti-queer violence. Sometimes, I give white people the wrong directions when they get lost. For awhile, this was on accident. I am horrible with directions, and so I wouldn’t even know I was pointing them the wrong way. But mostly when I do this today, it […]

Editor’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of anti-Black and anti-queer violence. Sometimes, I give white people the wrong directions when they get lost. For awhile, this was on accident. I am horrible with directions, and so I wouldn’t even know I was pointing them the wrong way. But mostly when I do this today, it […]

The Democratic National Committee’s Chairman Tom Perez sent shock-waves throughout the Democratic Party and the realm of politics in a move that signals what he wants the party to look like going forward. Perez stripped 75 members of the committee of their “at-large” status, members who were either Bernie Sanders or Keith Ellison loyalists and […]

By L.G. Parker Most of us remember the first time we read The Autobiography of Malcolm X and tripped off his brutal honesty, how it woke something up in us. If not that, we remember in 2007 when KanYe claimed on Graduation that he was “I’m like the fly Malcolm X/buy any jeans necessary/Detroit Red, […]