Officials recently announced criminal charges would not be filed against a Seattle police officer who broke a woman’s eye socket while arresting her over the summer, multiple local TV stations
The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the in Ferguson, Mo., New York
On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks helped spark a movement that would change this country forever. Yet, 59 years later Blacks continue to fight, bleed and sweat for their civil rights and humanity in
A grand jury in Staten Island has decided not indict New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in relation to the death of Eric Garner, a man that Pantaleo was seen on video putting in an apparent
Police tactics in Ferguson are again under the spotlight after a pregnant woman lost her left eye when an officer shot a bean bag round at the window of the car in which she was sitting, blasting
The Jacksonville mother who fired a gun toward her husband is back in jail. Marissa Alexander pleaded guilty Monday to three felony counts of assault. Bruce Zimet, her attorney, said, "Ultimately,
Black Twitter, a word started as an inside joke by the black community to describe Black twitter users, has become a buzzword in the past few years. Black twitter has shown its power over
The Salt Lake branch of the NAACP is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation into the . The announcement comes one week after . Investigators say they
Literature by Black authors is largely ignored or marginalized in literary canons. This is not because there aren’t any works worthy enough for inclusion but because of the overarching
by Gabrielle Union as as told to Abigail Pesta for Cosmopolitan A day after I got married this past August, rumors spread on the Internet that my name was on a list of more than 100 women whose