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Home Depot apologized for a racist tweet sent from its Twitter account Thursday. The tweet was part of the company’s “College Gameday” coverage on ESPN. The tweet featured two African-American drummers with a drummer wearing a gorilla mask in between them.

In the United States, police kill over 1,000 and injure more than 51,000 people each year. These figures are already staggering—and likely undercounted by more than half. The violence doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s built into the systems we’re told exist to protect us. And in cities like Atlanta, those systems are expanding. As a […]

Stop Cop City: The Social Movement Re-defining Community Safety   In the United States, police kill over 1,000 and injure more than 51,000 people each year, with evidence suggesting that these figures could be underreported by as much as 55%. In addition to these numbers being substantially higher than other developed nations, unfortunately, they are […]

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 […]

    Volunteers gathered to resume a massive search for a missing 8-year-old D.C. girl this past weekend. Relisha Rudd was last seen on March 1, and has been missing for more than 7 months. 

  Members of a Washington D.C. volunteer task force returned to Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens last last week in hopes of finding clues that will lead them to a missing 8-year-old girl. Relisha Rudd has been missing for more than two months. 

I was blessed last week to hear one of our most profound scholars Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. His lecture was an alarm bell sounding the state of emergency in our communities especially economically. One of the incredible stats he presented was that the black community combined made $836 billion dollars last year, but we spent only […]

by Donnie MoreIand I find myself humming the theme of Good Times, quite a bit. It’s calming, in the way only Black Baptist Church Choirs can be calming. In fact, I find all of it pretty calming—Good Times, that is—because it’s so unequivocally Black, that it feels a part of my cultural genome.  Now, I […]