The Department of Justice released a report on Wednesday on the Civil Rights investigation into the Baltimore Police Department following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. The investigation was requested by the Ma...
Fresh from our, “Is it 1816 or 2016” file, multiple news media outlets are reporting the Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration has been “systematically questioning the registrations of more than 180” black...
Breanna Edwards of The Root is reporting a history making event at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Three black women are in the top leadership positions, which is a first in the history of the convention. Edwards writes: ...
Avery Hartmans of Business Insider is reporting online travel accomodations site Airbnb has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy.” Airbnb has been in the new...
Leslie Miley hopes that Silicon Valley will become a more inclusive environment for ethnic minorities and underrepresented groups. Now the Director of Engineering for Growth at the San Francisco-based tech company Slack, the outsp...
It humbles National Urban League (NUL) president and CEO Marc H. Morial to hear his name mentioned in the same sentence as baseball legend and civil rights icon Hank Aaron. The accomplished organizational leader stood in high cott...
The legendary scholar, writer and visionary James Baldwin once personally confided to me that he had come to know that the “power of the pen” for Black people in America and throughout the world was “truly transformative and irrev...
NBC News is reporting legendary boxer and activist Muhammad Ali has died. Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed t...
A couple’s son is missing in Japan (right now) because they left him in the wilderness to teach him a lesson, but folks want to start a petition to have the child who wandered into the gorilla pit at Cincinnati zoo removed f...
CBS Local (Baltimore) is reporting arresting officer Edward Nero has been found not guilty on all counts by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams Monday morning. The article states: “Nero faced second-degree assa...
