Black Lives Matter
TIME magazine placed “Black Lives Matter” on the cover of this week’s issue, in the wake of the incident where North Charleston, S.C. cop Michael Slager…
Another disturbing video of police violence shows Detroit officers beating an African-American man during a traffic stop after he ran a red light on January 28.…
I’m no longer certain what’s more taxing: Having to write about yet another unarmed Black person experiencing excessive, brutal force from law enforcement, or having…
Taking a page from the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, “intelligence analysts” from Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis set up a fake Facebook account to…
Keep checking this page through 11:59 p.m. on Saturday for photos and Tweets from #BLM247. Why? As the people from Black Lives Matter said in…
Because it is a social construct, race can often be a complicated matter. However, racism – notably, as it works in America – is a…
The story: all too familiar. The aftermath: taking it to the streets. Late Friday evening, protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin after an unarmed black teen…
We have much to remember and be thankful for during Black History Month, but there’s also much to mourn. Today would’ve been Trayvon Martin‘s 20th birthday.…
African-American communities throughout the country have long been plagued by police brutality. The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Ezell Ford (pictured) last…
For a few weeks now, I and presumably other writers like me, have been asked to brace ourselves for this moment and to have our…