The Metro Transit Police Department has released a report highlighting the racial disparities among public transit riders in Minneapolis-St. Paul, namely that Black adults are more likely to receive fines than their White counterparts. The data collected by the Metro Transit Police Department focused on the amount of fines given to those who could not pay public transit fares in the […]
Viewers of an Australian talk show learned that some of their White neighbors and media personalities are perfectly fine with calling Black people "negroes."
For the first time since 2007, the unemployment rate for African Americans has fallen below 10 percent. Though this is “promising” the number is still twice the national average and more than two times the rate for whites. Research indicates that discrimination plays a role in the disparity, with black applicants not getting called back for interviews […]
Investigators are looking into the death of a Cincinnati man who was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer during a traffic stop Sunday.…
Actor Laurence Fishburne will play Alex Haley in A&E Networks’ reboot of Haley’s classic African-American novel Roots, History Channel’s executive vice president and general manager Dirk Hoogstra…
African-American students are paying a big price when it comes to achieving higher education; according to a new report, Blacks acquire the most student loan debt. The National…
The NAACP has released this statement, saying it is standing by NAACP Spokane Washington Branch President Rachel Dolezal: Baltimore, MD – For 106 years, the National Association…
Summer has officially graced us with her long-awaited presence, a season that means longer days of fun at amusement parks, days at the beach, and swimming pools for…
In the Senate Gallery, the section above the floor of the United States Senate, there was a raucous, involuntary roar as the vote was read…
Following Michael Eric Dyson’s open and brutal critique of his former friend Dr. Cornel West, the author opened up to HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill about the…
According to the website KilledByPolice.net, more than 100 people died at the hands of law enforcement in the month of March. The figure, which comes…
Following the deaths of Black men, women, and children at the hands of police this past year, many athletes and celebrities used their platforms to…
