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  LaVerne Cox is on a roll this year! She’s already made history by becoming the very first transgender woman to appear on the cover of TIME. Not to mention that time when she became the first transgender woman to be nominated for an Emmy.  Now, the actress and activist has been named one of Glamour’s ‘Women […]

Isabell Meggett Lucas, 87, is one of the many people who have visited the recently opened Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture and had a life-changing experience. 

Myya D. Jones hasn’t even graduated from Michigan State University yet, but she’s already aiming her focus on bigger goals. The 22-year-old Detroit native has announced that she’ll be running for mayor.

Officials in New York City are condemning the actions of an NYPD officer who fatally shot a 66-year-old black woman who was in need of mental health assistance.

There’s an episode of Law and Order: SVU out there where a young white woman and her boyfriend were looking to cover up a crime by blaming it on “a black guy” they “couldn’t really see”. Fortunately, the detectives caught on early and let them bury themselves in their lies. But it was Detective Fin Tutuola’s […]

Baltimore County Police arrived at an apartment to arrest Korryn Gaines, 23, for traffic violations. Tragically, the situation quickly escalated and left Gaines dead and her 5-year-old with a gunshot wound from police. 

The Kentucky state legislature hasn’t included a black woman in its ranks for nearly two decades. While this statistic may be somewhat alarming, you can take solace in the fact that that streak has officially been broken. Attica Scott, a local community leader, won the Kentucky Democratic Primary on May 17 and will head straight […]

On Aug. 17, 2013, James Dixon, 23, met Islan Nettles, 21, in Harlem, New York. The two began to flirt until Dixon learned that she was a transgender woman. According to what Dixon later told authorities, he went into a “blind fury” and attacked Nettles, hitting her twice. The first blow knocked her to the […]

Joyce Curnell, a 50-year-old black woman from South Carolina, was taken to Roper Hospital in July 2015 due to stomach flu. When it was revealed that there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest for 2011 misdemeanor shoplifting charge, she was taken into custody by Charleston County authorities. Curnell, who was battling sickle cell disease, […]

From The Advocate: New Orleans trans advocates say they have been left stunned by the death of Penny Proud, one of their city’s young, black trans residents, the latest casualty in the ongoing national trend of antitrans violence that has seen five trans women of color killed within the first five weeks of 2015. Proud, […]

  The Tallahassee, FL, police department has placed officer Terry Mahan on paid administrative leave after a cell phone recording of him tasering 62-year-old Viola Young was released. Young had approached the officer to inquire about a one of the men the officers were arresting. As Young turns to walk away, she is tasered in the back. […]

A Philadelphia mother of two is facing up to 11 years in prison after police in New Jersey found a licensed gun in her vehicle when they pulled her over for a minor traffic offense.  Shaneen Allen was traveling through the state and says she was not aware of the state’s gun laws.