Stacey Dash, the official archnemesis of the BET network, took to her blog on Wednesday night to castigate them for “keeping racism and segregation alive” during the channel’s Sunday broadcast of their awards show. Dear God, we have reached the freshest hell, haven’t we.
Noted Black Lives Matter activist and the former mayoral candidate for the city of Baltimore DeRay Mckesson has been named interim chief human capital officer for the city’s school districts.
Another officer has been acquitted of any wrongdoing in the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury during a “rough ride” while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department on April 12, 2015.
The leader of a Black Lives Matter chapter in Pasadena, California, was convicted this week on a felony charge that was known as “lynching” until recently, for her alleged role in a confrontation with police last year. Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation changing the law’s name after a different black activist was…
On Thursday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed HB 953, which expands the state’s hate statute to crimes motivated “because of actual or perceived employment as a law enforcement officer or firefighter.”
A prominent Black Lives matter activist in St. Louis was arrested in April and faces charges of human trafficking and prostitution against a 17-year-old girl. The activist, Charles Wade, said in a statement that he was helping the girl, who he believed to be 20, obtain temporary housing.
Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was federally indicted today on charges of a civil rights violation. Last April, Slager shot unarmed 50-year old Walter Scott in the back eight times after he fled a traffic stop.
16 cadets posed for an “Old Corps” historically-styled photo on the porch of one of West Point’s oldest barracks while in uniform. They raised their fists in what could be interpreted as a gesture of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, or a whole host of other historical political activism in the U.S.…
The family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a white Cleveland, OH police officer in 2014, will receive $6 million from the city of Cleveland in a settlement, the New York Times reports. Under the terms of the settlement, which is still pending approval from a probate court, the city does not…
One of MIA’s greatest traits is the way she speaks unfiltered in her music and in interviews, passionately articulating the political causes she supports and criticizing the practices she disdains. She’s never been too finessed about it, though, which has made her somewhat more relatable a figure in the realm of…
Peter Liang, the officer who fatally shot Akai Gurley in a dark Brooklyn public house stairwell in 2014, has been given five years probation and 800 hours of community service. Gurley, 28, was unarmed.
I recently received a text from my dead brother’s girlfriend. I still think of Dana as Junior’s girlfriend even though it’s been 15 years since he was killed. We’re not close anymore, but her daughter, who was conceived the week before he died, is my niece; we remain connected through the trauma we shared.
On Friday, Bill Clinton admitted he was almost sorry about arguing with Black Lives Matter protesters this week over his and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hand in creating America’s mass incarceration problem. However, as Brandy once sang, almost doesn’t count.
Bill Clinton filled in for his wife and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at a rally in Philadelphia, where he proceeded to clash with protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement in a way that can only be categorized as “peak cis white mansplain.”
Who is this man, and why is he allowed to stump for Hillary Clinton? These are questions that roiled in my mind while watching Bill Clinton, seemingly motivated by defending his own name rather than promoting his wife’s presidential campaign, argue in an unhinged fashion with a Black Lives Matter protestor in…
In her mucho hyped Elle interview released online Tuesday, Beyoncé discusses her “Formation” video and the overblown anti-police controversy that surrounded it, as well as feminism and, of course, her new clothing line Ivy Park.
The youths! Everyone loves to complain about the youths. But a study that polled the presidents of hundreds of higher educational institutes have more or less proved that the last gasp of Millennials and the first wave on Gen Z-ers are organizing for social causes—and in turn, they’re changing the very make-up of…
On Tuesday, prosecutors Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty, who worked the cases of Laquan McDonald and Tamir Rice in Chicago and Cleveland, respectively, were voted out in their primaries. Their losses are a victory for Black Lives Matter, a movement whose cultural reach will continue to be tested—and hopefully proven—at…
Anita Alvarez—the State’s Attorney for Cook County, Illinois who has grown nationally famous for her reluctance to charge 68 police officers involved in fatal shootings—has lost her race to keep her job tonight to Kim Foxx, an opponent from Cabrini Green whose express goal was to “bring back integrity to our criminal…
In Chicago, the Laquan McDonald fallout continues as election day comes for Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez on Tuesday. She’s under fire for waiting over a year to charge McDonald’s killer, and now The Daily Beast reports that Alvarez has failed to file charges against police officers in 68 fatal shootings,…
