2014 felt like the year that many Black people woke from their slumber. Somehow we’ve been lulled into a comfortable sleep, but it’s apparent that…
50 Years After Selma, Let’s Finally End Unbridled, Unjust Protection For Law Enforcement [EXCLUSIVE]
From Eric Garner, an unarmed 43-year-old man killed by NYPD on July 17, 2014, to Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager killed by a Ferguson police…
A new youth group has sprung up in Oakland, California, aimed at getting young girls to use their voices to speak out against injustice. In…
In an effort to provide economic support to activists on the front lines of protests against police violence in Ferguson, Mo., rapper Talib Kweli on…
The outcry for social and racial equality–and the resulting protests across the nation–has forced Dartmouth College and create a new college course. With the deaths…
Updated Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EST Trayvon Martin would have been 20 today. Let those words sink in and try to imagine…
#BlackLivesMatter groups nationwide released balloons honoring police murder victims Sunday. The actions were timed to coincide with the Super Bowl’s kickoff, occurring in places such…
A small #BlackLivesMatter contingent celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday Thursday by hosting a sing-in throughout the N.Y.C. subway system. The group was en-route to the African…
Attorney Benjamin Crump and Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, shared a message to young men of color reminding them that “Your Life…
#TeamBeautiful promptly covered the attempted bombing of Colorado Springs’ NAACP building (and to be fair, online newspapers like the Los Angeles Times did as well) but yesterday,…
GOP leaders have vowed to continue to challenge President Barack Obama on several issues. On Wednesday, The White House issued more vetoes against top-priority legislation…
