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In the era of #MeToo, Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault and is given a 3-10 year sentence. Other Hollywood giants like Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves are also being accused. Now, many are hoping Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, will be face accountability as a third woman accuses him of sexual […]

43 criminal cases are likely to be dropped after a Baltimore police officer “self-reported” footage of a “re-enactment of the seizure of evidence.” In other words, body camera footage captured an officer planting evidence – yes, for a third time – and they gave the department a heads up in advance. 

District Judge Sharon Holmes has declared a shocking third mistrial in nine months in the case of an Oklahoma father who shot his daughter’s boyfriend in 2014. Former Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler doesn’t deny shooting Jeremey Lake because he feels he did so in self-defense. However, despite his claims that Lake was armed, no weapon […]

Seven people have been killed along with another 48 injured following a terrorist attack on the London Bridge. BBC reports that a white van hit multiple pedestrians before the passengers got out and stabbed a number of passersby late Saturday night. Police shot and killed three men who were wearing fake bomb vests. Including a similar […]

Although President Obama has very little time left in office, he still has plenty of opinions about the 2016 election and what would have happened if it had been his name on the ballot. In an interview with former senior advisor David Axelrod, President Obama claimed that, if he had run again, he could have won since […]

According to the New York Times, a new study from the Vera Institute of Justice shows that the number of women in jails in the United States is increasing more quickly than the number of men in jails. The majority of these women are black or Hispanic and many are also low-income. The study suggests the increasing […]

By: Dr. Barbara Ransby According to last week’s GenForward survey by political scientist, Cathy Cohen’s Black Youth Project, based at the University of Chicago, young people across the board, dissatisfied with both the Democrats and the Republicans, are eager for a fundamental political change. That is the good news.

Every once in a while you’ll come across old laws that are still officially on the books but should’ve been revised eons ago. The latest instance of this playing out involved a black elementary school student that can’t go back to his school because of his race and outdated laws.

The statue of Olympian Tommy Smith has been vandalized. The gold medal that is part of the statue, located on the campus of San Jose State University, was apparently removed from the statue on April 10.

For a third time, Senate Republicans blocked a vote that would open debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act. The act would hold employers more accountable for wage discrimination against women. 

Residents in Albuquerque are taking to the streets in protest of what they call “ongoing slayings of citizens” by their local police department. Tuesday’s shooting of an unarmed man marked the third unarmed shooting in just three weeks by cops. 

After an incredibly stellar performance at the box office this weekend, there are already talks about a third Best Man movie. The Best Man Holiday, Malcolm D. Lee’s sequel to 1999’s The Best Man, floored “analysts” who were surprised that black audiences would show up in theaters for a movie that didn’t star Tyler Perry or white supremacy.