Prayers are going out to Rickey Smiley and family. Over the holiday weekend his youngest daughter, Aaryn, was shot multiple times in Houston. Smiley shared what happened to his daughter on his radio show Monday morning. Currently, Aaryn is recovering in the hospital. Apparently, the comedian’s daughter was on her way to grab food […]
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A community in Sacramento, California are enraged after witnessing police utilize a plastic bag during an arrest. Body cam video evidence shows police placing a plastic bag over the head of a 12-year-old boy while arresting him. Black Lives Matter and other activist groups are calling out the local police for brutally arresting a […]
Way too little of Ferguson, Missouri's population turned out for the mayoral election.
Pepsi was forced to pull its latest ad campaign featuring Kendall Jenner after it "missed the mark."
Emails also reveal that undercover cops regularly filmed Black Lives Matter activists and posed as protesters during rallies.
In an ongoing study, Black Women's Blueprint found that 60 percent of Black women report having been raped before the age of 18. But part of the challenge has been calling Black men into community to reckon not only with racism, but also with racialized sexual violence and sexualized and gendered racism.
Many believe that Colin Kaepernick's activism—his refusal to stand for the National Anthem in protest of police brutality and for the sanctity of Black lives—made the NFL turn a cold shoulder to him.
Leslie Jones can’t seem to get a break. Last year, led by now disgraced “writer” Milo Yiannopoulos, the Saturday Night Live player was viciously harassed online with users comparing her to Harambe the gorilla and sending her porn. These days, she’s facing a backlash after making a joke about white people who claim to support […]
Five years after Trayvon Martin’s death, the fight for justice for young Black men continues.
A cop claims to have received a doughnuts box with a 'Black Lives Matter' note. The police are investigating.
Aside from the surprising election of a businessman-turned-reality-star-turned-politician as the 45th President of the United States, here are some other top political moments of 2016.
