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The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission has filed a restraining order against Black Lives Matter Los Angeles activist Trevor Gerard. 

According to reports from multiple outlets, 18-year-old Nia Wilson was killed by a white supremacist while on her way home in Oakland on July 22nd. As Teen Vogue’s Taylor Crumpton surmises, the brutal attack on Wilson may be connected to an increase in white nationalist activity in the area. Wilson’s sister Latifa was also attacked […]

by Idiley This is a man’s world. This is a world that is designed to coddle and protect men from the consequences of their actions and interactions with women. This is a world where men are given the immense power to define these interactions and single-handedly deem their retelling of it as an unchallengeable truth. […]

After a frenetic Tuesday that saw Washington, D.C.’s Howard University receive not one, but two reports of an active shooter, D.C. police gave an all-clear at around 2:05 pm. Alonzo Joy, the university’s interim police chief, reassured D.C residents and Howard students at a press conference: “We have found no evidence, no witnesses, nothing that […]

We are about to learn the reach and limits of Trump’s executive power, as the judicial system challenges his constitutionally questionable executive orders.

A new ruling in Minneapolis has barred three Black Lives Matter activists from demonstrating at the Mall of America this holiday season.

The family of a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead has successfully won a battle to keep the child on life support. Jahi McMath suffered from cardiac arrest during a routine tonsillectomy. She never regained consciousness. The child’s family has been fighting to keep her on life support, as doctors at Children’s Memorial Oakland say that […]

The mother of a 13-year-old girl who has been declared brain dead by an Oakland hospital has written an open letter to the world. Jahi McMath went into cardiac arrest during a routine tonsillectomy at Children’s Hospital Oakland on Dec. 12. Her family is in the midst of a court battle to keep the child […]

Supporters have started an online petition demanding freedom for Marissa Alexander, a wife and mother of three from Florida who stood her ground against an abusive husband, and now faces 20 years in prison.