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According to reports from the Verge and the New York Times, on Tuesday Facebook announced that it has found and banned suspicious accounts using what the company calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that may be an attempt to influence the midterm elections in November. Facebook officials who talked to lawmakers say that Russia may again be implicated […]

Traditional media power-players seem spooked by the reach and relative newness of digital media and digital natives’ use of their platforms to amplify justice. Legacy brands, that present televised commercials to viewers, increasingly face off with digital media advertisers, and the social media realm of clicks, celebrities and influencers. And neither legacy brands nor digital […]

Being arrested for walking while Black, commonly referred to as “WWB”, was thought to be a myth, if not a rarity. However, new video footage suggests that it happens far more often than suspected. 

A professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. is caught up in major controversy after a social media post has resulted in demands for his termination and death threats. 

Last weekend in Chicago, a 15-year-old Black girl was raped by a gang of five or six boys and men. Making it several levels more horrific, this vicious assault was streamed on Facebook Live.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that state officials are investigating the shooting death of Rodney James Hess, 36, along Highway 412 near Alamo, Tennessee. 

Yesterday morning, activist, creator and co-founder of Safety Pin Box Leslie Mac found her Facebook account temporarily suspended after writing the following post: The post appears to be related to the Adam Saleh/Delta Airlines controversy. Mac took to Twitter to express her frustration, explaining to her followers that the post was likely flagged after actor […]

Black girls just can’t seem to get a break where their hair is concerned. Kemirah Jn-Marie, the only black cheerleader for Ross S. Sterling High School’s varsity squad in Baytown, Texas, learned this lesson the hard way recently. The school’s rules clearly state that cheerleader’s hair should all be “pulled back in a secure ponytail” and“must not distract […]

Krystal Lake, 22, is one of many Americans that doesn’t support the idea of Donald Trump having a realistic chance at becoming president. To express that, she wore a hat to work at a Staten Island Home Depot that read “America Was Never Great.” According to SILive, Lake is now receiving multiple death threats after […]

A 19-year-old man avoided the death penalty after posting threats online against a man who he eventually killed. 18-year-old Prentice Dietrich-Smith lost his life in June after Christopher Dowen, 19, wrote that he was going to “keep beating your ass over and over again” on Facebook. Dowen was found not guilty of murder and felonious […]

A party of 25 African American family and friends were denied service at Wild Wing Cafe in Charleston, NC after a white customer said she felt threatened by them. After waiting for two hours, the manager finally approached them about the situation. When one member of the groups started recording the exchange, they were asked to leave.

A Memphis kindergarten teacher has been suspended without pay after a series of disturbing comments on her fb page that insult her students and suggest that she physically assaulted them.