Civil Rights & Social Justice

On April 4, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, a Black man from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was fatally shot in the back of the head by a police officer who had him face-down on the ground following a traffic stop that reportedly ended in a brief foot chase and a struggle over […]

How does one claim that systemic racism doesn’t exist while also dedicating a full month to the celebration of a thing that only existed because white people wanted to keep Black people in chains?

Booooy, CNN+ host Chris Wallace should’ve just stayed his a** at Fox News because he just doesn’t fit the brand when it comes to non-conservative platforms where “not all white people” arguments just don’t fly. Recently, Wallace sat down with historian and creator of The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones and really tried to whitesplain to […]

Two men were taken into federal custody on Wednesday in Washington D.C. for claiming to be Department of Homeland Security agents investigating the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. Prosecutors also charge that the two gave gifts such as rent-free apartments to Secret Service agents.

Gabrielle Union stars in Disney’s remake of Cheaper by the Dozen, which is set to premiere on Disney + next week. But Union’s union with Disney did not stop her from calling out the entertainment giant for its complete failure to read the room in its response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which made […]

Before the killing of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood stalk-negroes-man George Zimmerman, most people had never even heard of “stand your ground” laws. Yet, they had been on the books in Florida for nearly seven years at the time Trayvon was killed for minding his own business while being Black.

Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane were guilty of violating George Floyd's rights when they failed to intervene as Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck while he was on the ground for over three minutes on May 25th, 2020. The jury also found that Thao and Kueng were guilty of ignoring Floyd's medical needs on the scene.

The death of Amir Locke, a 22-year old Black man during a police raid in Minneapolis, Minnesota has added more tension to the air in a city still dealing with the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

There’s a reason so many Black people hate America: Even when we get justice we know how quickly it can turn to justice-lite at best and injustice at worst (and as usual).

An explosive lawsuit contends that the police department of Warren, Michigan deliberately targeted seven Black male students in 2020, charging them with hazing in order to protect an elite white athlete which the suit alleges was "the main one" attacking younger athletes at that time.

The legendary Stevie Wonder sent out a video in the late hours of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day calling on lawmakers to step up and do the hard work to advance voting rights and democracy by getting rid of the filibuster, stopping short of cussing them out.

Welp, the fallout from the January 6, 2021, Caucasi-D-Day capitol riot in Washington D.C. is still spilling out into the courtrooms, and for the first time, a group of suspects is actually being charged with sedition.