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  The term “negro” faded in the late 1960s, but U.S. Army regulations still allow for black soldiers to be labeled with it. 

  In reaction to a new Army regulation that bans many popular hairstyles worn by its black female soldiers, the Congressional Black Caucus has asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to overturn the ruling.  Currently, 26,700 African American women are on active duty in the Army. 

Cries of racial bias followed news of the U.S. Army’s newly updated grooming policy last week that critics say unfairly targets black women. The grooming policy, Army Regulation 670-1, bans popular hairstyles worn primarily by black women. The regulation has not been made official yet, but the new rules were detailed in a PowerPoint presentation that […]

By Salaam Green Protest birthed out of the American south often sets the pace for revolutionary and radical campaigns for justice. While I was teaching creative drama with a group of fourth graders outside of Birmingham, Alabama, a hotbed for civil rights and the home of many justice movements, an eager fourth grader asked me […]

According to the Washington Post, police in Hoover, Alabama originally indicated Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was the shooter in a mall after they killed the 21-year-old army veteran. The police initially told reporters outside of Riverchase Galleria that Bradford had shot a teenager during a skirmish near the food court and had wounded a 12-year-old […]

On the night of August the 20th, protesters knocked down a controversial Confederate statue, “Silent Sam,” at the University of North Carolina. This incident is the latest in the national conversation on the removal of racist symbols, such as Confederate statues, from public spaces.

With a recent grocery store opening, Salvation Army is beginning a program to combat food deserts, communities without meaningful and close access to fresh produce and meats. Food deserts often have substantial poverty levels. The communities are often of-color and reflect larger national food security problems. As the Huffington Post reported, the Baltimore store, constructed on a […]

Celebrations rang out on Sunday after news broke that the Army Corps of Engineers would be ending construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline as originally planned. The pipeline was to be laid half a mile from the Dakota Sioux Standing Rock Tribe’s North Dakota Reservation, near the Missouri River, which the Tribe has claimed as […]

Ever since the beginning of April, water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and many who supported them have been fighting against the construction of an oil pipeline under the Missouri River that could endanger the water supply for thousands of people. After being deprived of supplies, assaulted by police officers from across the […]

By Lamont Lilly   Mainstream media would have most of us believe that the current struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota is all about clean water – that its only focus is stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from running through Indigenous reservation land. And yes, it is about these things. But while such a […]

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Young Americans are about equally likely to say they’ve had an encounter with police, but young black adults are much more likely than whites to say they’ve been arrested, harassed or know someone who has been, a new GenForward poll said Wednesday. Twenty-eight percent of blacks say they have […]

The Obama Administration is creating historic moments and stories that will be passed down for generations to come. The newest announcement is that Eric Fanning is now the first openly gay Army secretary of the United States, which the Senate confirmed last Tuesday evening. This news comes about five years after the repeal of “Don’t […]