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
There's a photo that’s gone viral of a young boy hugging a police offer at a Ferguson protest in Portland. The Oregonian dubbed it “The Hug Heard Round the World”. Others, including myself, are not so
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
Twitter leads you to terrible things. Some of the most racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic thoughts find themselves in its ethereal pool of consciousness. Still, I found myself taken
From the 1960s to around 2006, when The WB and UPN network merged, finding Black majority shows, on network TV, wasn’t that hard. Nor finding diverse depictions of Black people. You could find Black
On Saturday, August 9th, Michael Brown was murdered in cold blood by the police in his town of Ferguson, MO. This is what happened. Whether you believe that he stole something or that he tried to