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This past Saturday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) hosted one of the most anticipated main fights, UFC 229, in the company’s history. It was a fight between Muslim Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, the world’s lightweight champion, and Conor McGregor, the Irish international superstar coming to challenge him for the title. While the fight ended with […]

  The following piece is from the Atlantic. It was written by Jessica Lahey. By: Jessica Lahey “Education,” Horace Mann declared in 1848, “is a great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.” But increasingly, the condition of American children—and even their eventual role in society—is determined well before […]

  Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia staged a “die-in” demonstration in protest of events happening in Ferguson, Missouri. The demonstration included poetry written by students and reading of names of black men and women who have lost their lives at the hands of police. 

  A patient with Ebola-like symptoms is being treated at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. The patient recently traveled to the U.S. from Nigeria. 

  The following post originally appeared on Slate under the title, “Where I’m From: How a trip to Kenya changed the way I think about the terms African-American and black American.” By: Aisha Harris One of the first times I recall being asked the question “Where are you from?” was also one of the first […]

In November, Georgia will make history. For the first time in the state and the nation, five black women will be on a statewide ballot. 

Because of Latrell McCockran’s bravery, a man is alive today. The 14-year-old Bay area teenager is being hailed as a hero after risking his life to save a disabled man and his dog from a burning building.

The Following post originally appeared on Vox, and was written by German Lopez. The piece appeared under the original title, “How The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Could Protect LGBT Workers.” By: German Lopez Exactly 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law is being interpreted to protect […]

The former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP is coming to the defense of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Leon Jenkins told The Associated Press that Sterling “was a ‘wreck’ and almost crying after a television interview in which Sterling derided Magic Johnson as a role model. 

On December 10, more than two dozen police officers from Miami Dade County fired 377 rounds into a blue Volve, killing two unarmed men. The car was wedged between a light pole and a tree. The two men inside survived the first 50 rounds of gunfire from cops according to witnesses who said they could […]

The number of black and Latino students admitted to some of New York City’s most selective schools fell sharply over the past year. The findings come as part of a report released by the Department of Education. 

After hearing reports about violence against black men in Casper, WY, members of a local NAACP branch took action. Since the assaults were often followed by Ku Klux Klan pamphlets being distributed, the Gillette, WY NAACP initially considered a rally against the white supremacist group, but then decided to reach out to a member of […]