2017-07-26 15:22
Let me just jump right on my soapbox and start this sermon off being direct as possible. I don’t give a darn if OJ Simpson is freed or not. Last week, the big talk was about Simpson&rs&hell…Read More
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2017-07-26 15:17
Democrats must strongly consider putting an African-American candidate on the ticket if they plan to win back the White House, a number of Black activists say. The issue stands to be a topic… Read More
2017-07-26 15:11
Howard University, one of the nation’s top historically black colleges, has seen the neighborhood around it change drastically over the years. The area, located just a couple of miles… Read More
2017-07-26 15:01
Nicole Sahbaee – In the next week, I will be closing my time as a summer intern at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and beginning my final undergraduate year at Howard… Read More
2017-07-26 14:56
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 from 10 AM to 7 PM, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will host a Twitter town hall on the American Health Care Act and how it will negatively impact all… Read More
2017-07-25 20:43
Three African-American sergeants in the Paterson Police Department have filed a federal lawsuit claiming that “a history of racism” delayed the promotions of minority officers. T… Read More
2017-07-25 20:39
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is set to begin work on a report detailing advertising spending by federal agencies—particularly as it pertains to Black and Latino media com… Read More
2017-07-25 20:27
As the fight over reforms to the American health-care system continues this week, Tuesday marks the 45th anniversary of a grim milestone in the history of health care in the U.S. On July 25… Read More
2017-07-25 19:43
Sitting in a classroom above a gun range, a woman hesitantly says she isn’t sure she could ever shoot and kill someone, even to protect herself. Couldn’t she just aim for their l… Read More
2017-07-25 14:02
America’s Black women vote at high rates and are politically active, but remain underrepresented in elected positions relative to their population size. And they’ll have to conti… Read More
2017-07-24 14:38
In 1937, mixed race children living in the Rhineland were tracked down by the Gestapo and sterilized on “secret order.” Some were later the subject of medical experiments, while… Read More
2017-07-24 14:35
I was only five then, but I can easily recall certain times from my youth, including because I was one of the youngest in a big Catholic family, been blessed with a good memory, had an early… Read More
2017-07-24 14:32
Sitting in a classroom above a gun range, a woman hesitantly says she isn’t sure she could ever shoot and kill someone, even to protect herself. Couldn’t she just aim for their l… Read More
2017-07-24 14:31
A little context is critical here. It would be too easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s Commission on Electoral Integrity as superfluous evidence of the intellectual erosion of the Republica… Read More
2017-07-24 14:28
In the aftermath of the police shooting of Justine Damond, many on the right of the political spectrum asked on social media: “Where are the protests now?” The claim was clear: w… Read More
2017-07-24 14:15
It seems entirely fitting that OJ Simpson should reappear at this surreal juncture in American life because many of the trends that culminated in the election of Donald J Trump can be traced… Read More
2017-07-24 14:13
Nearly a decade ago, Clinton Crawley, a Baltimore resident and one of my constituents, was diagnosed with diabetes. Clinton has done everything his doctors asked—he eats well, he exerc… Read More
2017-07-24 14:10
This week, the city of Detroit is remembering a series of days that forever changed the iconic Motor City. Fifty years ago, the city ignited into five days of rioting after Detroit police ra… Read More
2017-07-24 14:08
Carlos Moore made history this week when he took to the bench as the first African-American municipal judge in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Then he made a ruckus. On his first day on the job, Mo… Read More
2017-07-21 18:56
During peach season, Georgia’s roads are dotted with farm stands selling fresh peaches. Year-round, tourist traps sell mugs, hats, shirts and even snow globes with peaches on them. At… Read More
2017-07-21 18:41
Maya Rockeymoore, a policy consultant who is married to longtime U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), says she is weighing a run for Maryland governor in 2018. Rockeymoore, 46, would be the… Read More
2017-07-21 18:31
Sen. Kamala Harris demonstrated her loyalty Thursday to key national Democratic constituencies she would need if she seeks the White House – African-American and Hispanic voters &ndash&hell…Read More
2017-07-21 18:26
Early on, in his recently published book, Chokehold [Policing Black Men], Paul Butler states, “cops routinely hurt and humiliate black people because that is what they are paid to do… Read More
2017-07-21 18:16
A two-year renewable grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will enable Tuskegee University to conduct historical and genealogical research on unaccounted for, or “missing,” T… Read More
2017-07-20 15:16
The NAACP issued the following statement after President Trump announced that he will not attend the NAACP’s 108th Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. “It’s extremely… Read More
2017-07-20 14:59
In a scathing open letter published in The New York Times this week, an African-American minister announced his departure from the Southern Baptist Convention over the church’s relucta… Read More
2017-07-20 14:50
On Monday, former NFL quarterback Michael Vick appeared on FS1’s Speak for Yourself, and when asked about any advice he could give to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepe… Read More
2017-07-20 14:46
Paul Congemi insists that he doesn’t want all black people to go back to Africa; just a specific group of black people who have been trying to make reparations a political issue in St… Read More
2017-07-20 14:41
Anytime that I learn that R. Kelly is releasing new music, or that he’ll be appearing at an awards show or that he’s received some other affirmation or distinction in spite of hi… Read More
2017-07-20 14:14
In the spring of 1991, one man holding a small Sony camcorder captured video that seemed to prove exactly what African-Americans had been protesting throughout the 20th century. Millions wat… Read More
2017-07-20 14:10
My husband and I found ourselves having “the talk” with our son, Sunday night—which is ironic in light of the advice Michael Vick gave to Colin Kaepernick, urging him to &l&hell…Read More
2017-07-20 14:06
It was 1957 when 14-year-old Isaiah “Ike” McKinnon made the decision to become a Detroit police officer. It was a surprising decision given the beating he’d just suffered a… Read More
2017-07-20 14:03
One month after deciding not to move a Confederate memorial from public property, a county commission in Florida on Wednesday reversed itself and voted to relocate the monument to a private… Read More
2017-07-19 15:49
On the eve of the first meeting of President Trump’s voter fraud commission, Democrats and civil rights groups were busy trying to get Congress to pull the plug on the group. Democrats… Read More
2017-07-19 15:45
While Texas lawmakers dive into a encore legislative session at the capitol this month, a few high-ranking federal judges are quietly weighing whether or not the legislature intentionally pa… Read More
2017-07-19 15:42
Cops were violating the rights of the residents of Ville Platte, Louisiana, as far back as anyone can remember. Arthur Sampson Jr. grew up in this rural community, roughly 80 miles west of B… Read More
2017-07-19 15:30
U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has met a delegation of U.S. faith-based human rights activists to discuss voter suppression efforts targeting African-Americans and low-i… Read More
2017-07-19 15:27
Hate crimes are on the rise nationwide, including here in San Francisco, where the city’s diversity also happens to be a hallmark of the San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD)… Read More
2017-07-19 15:19
Hoping to steer national politics in a different direction, black clergy from several denominations came together for the first-ever “African American Clergy Advocacy Day” on Cap… Read More
2017-07-19 15:16
The official federal graduation rates for colleges and universities that serve large numbers of black, Latino and Asian students significantly underestimate how many of their students are ea… Read More
2017-07-19 15:10
Fifty years ago Wednesday, Plymouth Avenue in Minneapolis went up in flames. The racial tensions that led to violent demonstrations around the country in the summer of 1967 spread to the cit… Read More
2017-07-18 21:23
There’s a growing tendency for mainstream economists, including several of those at the Federal Reserve, to dismiss all income disparities as the product of a skills- or education gap… Read More
2017-07-18 21:20
Jasmine Shepard, a young African-American woman, has become the target of racist hate after becoming the first black valedictorian at a high school in Cleveland, Mississippi. According to a… Read More
2017-07-18 21:06
In this rural outpost, a pair of statues collectively called “Reconciliation” celebrate two natives and their heritage, Jewish financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch a… Read More
2017-07-18 20:54
Dr. Marjorie Innocent – Black Churches are more than places of worship. They are the vibrant hearts of the African-American community that bring the Gospel into our lives, inspire fait… Read More
2017-07-18 20:47
Today, U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris delivered remarks at the Justice Action Network’s “Women Unshackled” Conference, a bipartisan event held to address the drastic increas… Read More
2017-07-18 20:40
“When you get to the top of the Democratic Party, it looks just like the GOP.” That’s the insight Maze Jackson expressed at the beginning of our conversation. We were sitti… Read More
2017-07-18 14:21
For a while there, it appeared that the GOP’s long-running assault on voting rights was finally losing steam. In recent years, federal courts have struck down or significantly weakened… Read More
2017-07-18 14:19
Morehouse College has strong academics, an idyllic leafy campus, and illustrious alumni, 15 percent of whom give back to the school, a rate comparable to Harvard’s. But the historicall… Read More
2017-07-18 14:13
On any level you examine, President Donald Trump’s outreach to Blacks is an unenlightened mess. Trump’s appointment of Omarosa Manigault, the former Apprentice contestant as Whit… Read More
2017-07-18 14:03
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the ep… Read More
2017-07-18 14:00
In 1967, the NBC journalist Frank McGee spent nearly a month living with soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. Though the troops were often engaged in heavy combat, McGee had a… Read More
2017-07-18 13:53
Black families are hurt by unfairly high incarceration rates for African-American women and the impediments they face once they’re out of jail. That’s according to “The Sta… Read More
2017-07-17 21:18
Helping African-American boys improve their ability to tell stories in preschool could increase the speed at which they learn to read later on, according to new research from the Frank Porte… Read More
2017-07-17 21:11
New York City was scaling back its stop-and-frisk program even before a federal judge ruled in 2013 that the tactics underlying it violated the constitutional rights of minority citizens. It… Read More
2017-07-17 16:15
A Memphis woman said her doctor greeted her with an insulting racial term during her visit on July 11. Lexi Carter said her doctor, Dr. James Turner, came into the room and said, “Hi A… Read More
2017-07-17 16:12
Having spent much of her adulthood in Section 8 housing, Natasha Jones never imagined that she’d one day become a homeowner. But in March, the 32-year-old closed on a three-bedroom hou… Read More
2017-07-17 16:08
Kimberly Teitter anticipated only joy on her wedding day. But the Salt Lake City woman instead had to deal with racism in an LDS temple. A temple worker, apparently assuming Teitter is a con… Read More
2017-07-17 15:58
East Atlanta village feels a lot like some of the hippest parts of Brooklyn. Freelancers flit between sushi bars and graffiti-covered coffee shops, working remotely while sipping on flat whi… Read More
2017-07-17 15:06
City emails newly obtained by the Tribune cast light on the scope and offensiveness of racist, sexist and anti-gay slurs by politically connected supervisors at the top levels of the Chicago… Read More
2017-07-17 15:03
Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond. She was al… Read More
2017-07-17 15:01
A half-century after their deaths, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X remain two of the world’s most revered political activists. They were both respected leaders of the American Civi… Read More
2017-07-14 20:16
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the “long, hot summer.” In 1967, there were over 160 uprisings in cities throughout the U.S. The largest and deadliest uprisings occurre… Read More
2017-07-14 20:09
“I went to these trailers when I was in kindergarten,” says Dorothy Haymer of her six-year-old daughter’s temporary-but-permanent classroom at Webster Elementary school in… Read More
2017-07-14 19:56
The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is right in calling for the NAACP to restructure and redefine its mission. The bishops should be commended for raising concer… Read More
2017-07-14 19:53
Our representatives are on the brink of instating a health care plan that epitomizes separate and unequal. Thirteen U.S. Senators – all white men – sat behind closed doors in Was… Read More
2017-07-14 14:36
William Lamar, the senior pastor at D.C.’s historic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, is tired of presiding over funerals for parishioners who died of heart disease, dia… Read More
2017-07-14 14:33
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) issues its 2017 Thumbs Down Award to FOX News and Ebony magazine today. The Thumbs Down Award is presented annually to an individual or o… Read More
2017-07-14 14:26
On the heels of proposals from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and President Donald Trump to create the first nationwide federal voucher program while slashing funds for public schools a… Read More
2017-07-13 18:14
Police shootings. A racial and income divide. The border wall. Fake news. Divisiveness and mistrust is alive and well in America today. But what if there was a place where civility and respe… Read More
2017-07-13 18:09
In this surreal-like but painfully real era of Donald Trump, Black people must re-examine their values and demand more effective leadership. The general public has less confidence in elector… Read More
2017-07-13 17:56
In the month of July when we celebrate America’s independence, our nation’s 241-year old experience in democracy is in grave danger, not from without, but from within. Russian ha… Read More
2017-07-13 15:25
A video that shows the moment police in Orlando pull over Florida’s first African American state attorney has gone viral. The two officers did not appear to have a clear explanation fo… Read More
2017-07-13 13:56
Rae Peoples is ready to do everything she can — rally her friends, open her checkbook, knock on doors — to help Stacey Abrams, the Democratic leader of the Georgia Statehouse, be… Read More
2017-07-12 19:20
When it comes to low-level drug arrests, the NYPD is no less biased than it was 20 years ago. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the Drug Policy Alliance, which shows tha… Read More
2017-07-12 18:30
On a Sunday in late April, Pastor Clarence Jones asked his congregation to join him. “Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. Congregation?” he said, his… Read More
2017-07-12 18:25
Like many African-Americans of his generation, Phillip Smith, a Californian in his 50s, grew up without a gun in the house. To his parents, gun ownership was not just politically unacceptabl… Read More
2017-07-12 18:20
It was 50 years ago this summer that major American cities erupted in flames and fury as a series of race riots shook the nation to its core. The civil disturbances of 1967 showed that relat… Read More
2017-07-12 18:16
It doesn’t require a stretch of the imagination to assume that the rate of home ownership among African-American Memphians, who comprise two thirds of the the city’s population… Read More
2017-07-12 18:12
More than two years have passed since the water crisis in Flint, Michigan hit the national headlines. But the water crisis itself unfolded over three years ago in 2014—not 2015 when th… Read More
2017-07-12 18:08
On the hot summer night on of July 12, 1967, two white policemen in Newark, New Jersey, arrested an African-American cabdriver named John Smith for “tailgating” and driving in th… Read More
2017-07-11 13:41
When the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, he was already a national icon. But it would take nearly a decade more before he was awarded the Presidential Me… Read More
2017-07-11 13:33
Kamala Harris. Ava Duvernay. Viola Davis. Names of a select few Black women who in the past year or two have shattered ceilings and seemingly achieved the impossible in their chosen fields… Read More
2017-07-11 13:30
When a woman under age 45 is diagnosed with breast cancer, national guidelines recommend that she undergo genetic testing for cancer-predisposing mutations. With the test results, a younger… Read More
2017-07-11 13:27
Black Catholics must work harder to bridge the racial divide in communities, the nation and within the church, while the Catholic Church needs to be a stronger force in confronting the syste… Read More
2017-07-11 13:24
Of the Senate’s 336 top staff jobs – the kind that carry six-figure salaries and behind-the-scenes clout – just 24 were held by people of color during the last Congress. U… Read More
2017-07-11 13:15
The Confederate battle flag was raised outside the South Carolina Statehouse again Monday, but it rose on a pole that was planted in a temporary plastic stand — not in the earth. The c… Read More
2017-07-11 13:08
Waikinya Clanton came from Washington, D.C. to Connecticut to learn how to win votes. “I never really questioned it or thought I can’t do this because I’m a woman,” C… Read More
2017-07-10 17:44
Broad eligibility, ease of access to the voting process, high participation and an accurate count are all fundamental to the democratic process. Attempts to erode, diminish or compromise any… Read More
2017-07-10 17:39
While the use of fines as revenue is common in most cities, a recent study found that the practice is strongly correlated with the share of Black people living in a given locale. The study… Read More
2017-07-10 17:36
President Trump’s sham “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity”—which has received nearly universal opposition from voting rights advocates and state officials… Read More
2017-07-10 17:33
Three current and former Chicago police officers pleaded not guilty on Monday to felony charges of conspiring to cover up the fatal shooting of an African-American teenager by a white office… Read More
2017-07-10 17:25
Those who argue the practice of racism is weakening, cite the reign of Barack Obama or the increased prominence of Black entertainers and African-Americans who’ve accumulated financial… Read More
2017-07-10 17:20
Yul Dorn and his wife raised their son and daughter in a three-bedroom home crammed with family photos, one they bought in a historically African-American neighborhood in San Francisco more… Read More
2017-07-10 17:18
President Donald Trump’s re-election bid in 2020 may very well hinge on whether people like Alabama pastor Kenneth Glasgow can vote. Glasgow is the formerly incarcerated co-founder of… Read More
2017-07-10 17:15
The noose — that all-too-familiar symbol of hate, violence and death for Black people in the United States — never left the American landscape, but it is certainly experiencing a… Read More
2017-07-07 17:38
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III “You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have litt… Read More
2017-07-07 17:34
The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia put an employee on administrative leave after a noose was found at the plant on the chair of an African-American colleague. The unidentified employee created th… Read More
2017-07-07 17:30
In 2012, Alexis Sumpter had swiped her school-issued MetroCard through a subway turnstile in Harlem when she was stopped and then handcuffed by two plainclothes New York City police officers… Read More
2017-07-07 17:11
Janice “Jay” Johnson – The health care repeal that Republicans are pushing through Congress is a direct attack on the lives of black people throughout the country. Just as… Read More
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