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Today, March 15, Anita Alvarez couldn’t make up for lost ground and conceded the race to Kim Foxx. With 74 percent of votes counted, Foxx led the race with 58 percent to Alvarez’ 29 percent, according to DNAinfo. Donna Moore was a distant third.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, an old videotape showing R.Kelly sexually assaulting an underage girl may soon land him in legal trouble.

One of the reasons that the United States has such a disproportionately high prison population is that a lot of people just can’t afford to avoid jail once they are accused of a crime. Although it’s law in most states that judges should set bond that defendants can actually afford, this isn’t often the case. Cook […]

Cook County prosecutors decided to not press charges against Officer Robert Rialmo for shooting Qunitonio LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor Bettie Smith, 55, the day after Christmas in 2015. 

There are very few activists today who can boast the experience and accomplishments of Mariame Kaba. The New York native, whose work brought her to Chicago for over 20 years, is an educator, organizer, and curator whose work “focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development.” She has worked […]

Coalitions of young people from activist organizations like Assata’s Daughters, BYP100, and Black Lives Matter, Chicago have been demonstrating against Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez for years now. Their efforts reached a fever pitch in the weeks following the November 2015 release of footage of the murder of LaQuan McDonald on October 20, 2014. Their concerns were stemming […]

This article has been cross-posted with permission. Saturday Night Live is what happens when white people enjoy something that’s anti-Black, systematically bigoted, and generally exclusionary to non-whites. SNL producers thought that throwing in a few Black people who we hoped had home-training would fix it. Because that’s not how white supremacy works. It took me a while to […]

By: Sam Fleming Kanye West has evolved greatly over the years since his 2004 debut single “All falls down.” He has had some great moments and some not so great moments. But, his albums have been all over the place. Here is our thorough ranking of his albums with from worst to best. Use the […]

From the #ByeAnita actions in Chicago to the Fund Black Futures campaign, 2016 has already yielded significant gains for young Black organizers across the country. But the launch of Black Scholars for Black Lives (BS4BL), a collective made up of over 200 scholars and academics who have taken a pledge to use their platforms to […]

I was mildly curious about how Get On Up, the James Brown biopic, would do in its first weekend at the theater, even though I had no interest in seeing it. After all, a trailer that includes the words, “from the director that brought you The Help” as enticing jargon clearly does not have me […]

  A New York woman has reached a $650,000 settlement with Nassau County after a police officer accidentally shot her while conducting a drug raid involving her downstairs neighbors. Iyanna Davis was shot in the breast in 2010 after cops mistakenly burst into her apartment during a drug investigation. 

The “Where Are the Voices” Roundtable Discussion on Advocacy in Entertainment featuring from left to right, Kimberley Elise, Aaron D. Spears, Elise Neal, Rev. Omarosa Manigault, and moderator Jasiri X (Photo by Thomas Reynolds) Do Black Celebrities Have A Duty To Speak Out? Certainly Mr. Belafonte thinks so. In the above video he calls the silence of […]