Angel Jennings of the Los Angeles Times is reporting that a recent proposal to place predominately African American View Park on the National Register of Historic Places has catalyzed a controversial battle between residents in Lo...
CNN and other networks broadcast the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capit0l in Columbia, South Carolina today at 10 a.m. EST. CNN host Don Lemon spoke with activist/writers Charles Blow and Van Jones during the his...
The blogosphere is giving a collective round of applause to Sudanese Model’s Nykhor Paul, who publicly lambasted white make-up artists for being unprepared to do make-up for black models at major fashion shows. In an Instagr...
Fresh from our “what in the hell file?” Google Photos has apologized for tagging black people as ‘Gorillas.’ Taryn Finley of the Huffington Post reported the story of Jacky Alciné, who checked his Google Ph...
Lillian Cunningham of the Washington Post is reporting that Misty Copeland has been promoted to principal dancer of the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, becoming the first African-American ballerina to reach the elite dance co...
The Atlantic is reporting six black churches have been set on fire over the last week. The burnings are happening just days after nine people were murdered at a historic black church, Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcop...
USA Today is reporting that Bree Newsome, a black female activist, climbed a flagpole Saturday in Columbia, S.C., and briefly removed a controversial Confederate battle flag from in front of the Statehouse. USA Today reports: R...
Reuters is reporting that two sheriff’s deputies and a healthcare worker have been indicted in the death of Matthew Ajibade, 21, who was killed while in police custody in Savannah, GA. Jason Paul Kenny, Maxine Evans and Greg...
Multiple media outlets are reporting a white man showed up at the door of the United Nations Church International in Richmond, VA, yelling racial slurs, beating on the doors and threatening to kill all of the members of the black ...
Jeff Amy of the Associated Press is reporting Graeme Phillip Harris has pleaded guilty to hanging a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Miss. Amy writes: Harris, who is white, pleaded guilty ...
