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Throughout my work creating collages, and scouring the web for meaningful art, I have found thousands of images of unidentified Black people. These photos of Black women, children, men, and their families, are all with unknown origins. The archives show blank faces that stare at the camera, remaining still because the slightest move will ruin […]

by Donnie Moreland  “We hummed a celebration for living. For fighting. For refusing to die. For enduring when giving up would be easier. For believing, against all odds, that we’d get home someday.”  —The Coming; Daniel Black “It’s nothing like losing one’s keys. It’s not as if he has been misplaced. It’s not as simple […]

After six California police officers murdered 20 year old Willie McCoy, a Black local rapper, on Saturday at a Taco Bell fast-food restaurant, McCoy’s family is demanding answers.

BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked at Donald Trump’s Monday El Paso, Texas rally that the president used to drum up support for a border wall. According to the Huffington Post, an unidentified attacker stormed the stage, yelled and screamed, “fuck the media,” and shoved members of the press who were on stage. Trump’s rallies routinely […]

By L.N. Lewis I visit a certain website almost monthly, reading names and cross-checking news stories. It is a stark spreadsheet, a database of nightmares reaching back to May 1, 2013, titled killedbypolice.net. For April 2018, it lists 418 names. Among them: Shukri Ali Said, aged 36; Elijah James Smith, 20-years-old; and Brenda Jenette Harrison-Bumbray, […]

On April 29, a white woman called the police on a Black family for using a charcoal grill at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. A fellow Oakland resident, Michelle Snider, recorded the incident and accused the unidentified white woman of harassing the family because they are Black. It sparked national conversations about racism. Police came to the […]

By: Taylor Bogert, Kiara Hyde, Chelsea Jackson (BYP Fellows)   Can a Black person ever truly outrun racism? NBA superstar LeBron James found out the hard way when his California home was defaced by an unidentified person who spray painted the n-word on his front gate—the eve of the NBA Finals. James talked thoughtfully about […]

A Sacramento police officer has been placed on administrative leave after cell phone footage showed him charging at a pedestrian, throwing him to the ground and punching him several times for what appears to be nothing more than jaywalking.

A storeowner in Charlotte, N.C. decided to take it upon himself to confront a Black woman he accused of trying to steal a box of eyelashes. The altercation was recorded on cell phone video and shows the owner, Sung Ho Lim, wrestling the woman to the ground then placing her into a chokehold. 

Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald has seen the same video we all have of a police officer’s interaction with Jacqueline Craig after she called authorities because her neighbor allegedly choked her seven-year-old son for littering. He also watched the situation escalate on film as the officer forcibly arrested Craig and her two teenaged daughters after implying […]

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

Kanye West’s actions as of late have been concerning, to say the least. First, he interrupted his own show to say that he would’ve voted for Donald Trump – if he voted at all. Then he cancelled the rest of his Saint Pablo tour dates after an odd performance where he only performed a couple […]