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Police arrested four white teenagers for an alleged plot to attack a predominately Black Muslim community, after one of them made an alarming remark to classmates.

Israel has arrested 5 Israeli Yeshiva high school students for the fatal stoning of Aisha Rabi, a 48-year old Palestinian woman in the West Bank last year. The fatal attacks on Palestinian civillians by Israeli settlers have increased ahead of the national elections in April.

Who hasn’t heard of the narcissistic, vapid young people trope? These people, we hear, are not abreast of current issues. Purportedly, they do not care about others. They are tethered to their smart-phones but do not read books. While many Millennials are familiar with how young people can be miscast as society’s primary scapegoats, the […]

A program at Kent State University is aiming to help Black girls deal with stress, anxiety, and depression. Sisters United Now is run by psychologist Angela Neal Barnett, who says that chronic stress and anxiety often develops for Black women in childhood, but many don’t recognize it until they have become adults. Barnett developed the […]

A teenage girl who was forcibly arrested by police officers who mistook her from an adult man has filed a claim citing a violation of her civil rights and a use of excessive force. 

Police in Bakersfield, California are under fire because they not only beat a suspect and allowed a dog to attack them, but they had the wrong suspect to begin with. 

Thousands of police officers had gathered for the funeral of Officer Miosotis Familia in New York when they heard a song they surely all know too well. A teenager in an apartment a few floors above took the opportunity to blast the N.W.A. classic “F–k tha Police” on repeat in an act of protest against […]

Nabra Hassanen, 17, was walking home from an event in Reston, Va. observing Ramadan with friends when she was assaulted by a motorist, according to The Independent. 

Thessalonika A. Embry, 18, has already accomplished more than some people twice her age. At 14 she earned a bachelor’s in Psychology. At 16 she earned an MBA in Organizational Leadership. And on top of all of that, she’s working on a Black history-focused app for Apple and Google and is already a published author. Oh, […]

In January, Officer Ruben De Los Santos was still on paid administrative leave despite the release of a video that showed him slamming a 15-year-old girl to the ground after a fight broke out before school one day. While De Los Santos resigned earlier this month, a North Carolina Grand Jury declined to press charges […]

A black teenager was killed by police in Austin, Texas on Monday morning. David Joseph, 17, was naked, unarmed and “acting erratically” when he encountered officers that received multiple calls to the scene, according to the Austin Police Department.

An Instagram photo of the eldest First Daughter is making its rounds across the internet.