Her reaction to being asked to get up and go to the back was one part of a movement that would continue to this day all across America, and Rosa Parks would spend the 1970’s through ’90s speaking on racial injustice. Sixty years ago on this day, Rosa Parks refused to give up her […]
Outraged over the violent shooting of Laquan McDonald by a white Chicago police officer, protesters on Tuesday took to the streets and social media to condemn what appears to be nothing short of an execution. Protesters erupted across the city, with some chanting “16 shots” for the number of times the officer shot McDonald and […]
Minneapolis police are searching for three White men after five people were shot near the Black Lives Matter protests for Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old unarmed Black man who was shot earlier this month by police. The five victims were transported to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries Monday night, the Minneapolis Police Department said in […]
The chancellor at the University of Missouri announced his departure Monday, just hours after the embattled president stepped down under pressure over unchecked racism and harassment of Black students on campus.
*To say the NYPD is not thrilled with director Quentin Tarantino is an understatement. It’s all because of his anti-police brutality stance with the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and a rather specific and inflammatory statement he made. “When I see murders, I do not stand by . . . I have to call a murder a murder, and I […]
Black Lives Matter, a movement sprouted from the racial mistreatment of police officers towards men and women of color, was targeted by Fox News host Sean Hannity this week when he compared them to the Ku Klux Klan. Hannity expressed discontent with the Democratic party after news surfaced that the DNC would allow the BLM group to host a […]
While some activists are frustrated with being denied a presidential debate, others are enthusiastic about the town hall’s more flexible (and possibly more fruitful) format to address America’s racial injustice. Blacks Lives Matter (BLM) activists are now deliberating whether they will accept an offer from the Democratic National Committee to host a presidential town […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Tamir Rice‘s paternal grandmother agreed to sit down with the CBS Evening News Monday for her first television interview since Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty released three expert reports saying the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old was “reasonable.” Mildretta Warner-Davis is the mother of Leonard Warner. Meantime, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is expressing support for the Rice family. Clinton […]
A California mom was outraged to find a Playmobil Pirate Ship came complete with a figurine resembling an African-American slave and instructions to place it in a neck shackle.
Gil Scott Heron said in a 1970 poem, “the revolution will not be televised,” explaining in an interview years later that he meant change can’t…
As a week full of insightful panels to discuss policy changes for some of the nation’s most pressing issues comes to a close, the Congressional Black…
In Houston, Texas, a high school student was among others participating in a tribute of recently slain Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Gorofth. The student, Fatimah Bouderdaben, wore a blue shirt Friday following the code. However, Bouderdaben’s shirt was emblazed with the #BlackLivesMatter tag, which prompted school officials to send her home. Bouderdaben, a 17-year-old senior at […]