Civil Rights & Social Justice

Colin Kaepernick—the athlete and activist who put his convictions before his career and flooded the world with a Pacific Ocean’s worth of white tears just by starting the practice of kneeling during the national anthem as a show of support for Black lives—will be gracing November’s cover of Ebony in an issue that features an […]

In court documents revealed on Wednesday, the lead attorney for Jay-Z’s Team Roc filed for the compassionate release of a man incarcerated on marijuana-related charges who had written to the rapper for help.

The Kansas City, Kansas police department is the focus of a new lawsuit brought against them Monday by Team Roc, the philanthropic arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation label and media group dedicated to seeking police reform.

The settlement comes after the 28-year old nurse's aide was accosted by police at the site of a protest on police brutality last October, resulting in her being detained without charges and being separated from her nephew and 2-year old who was later used in a social media post by a police union.

A grand jury in Colorado indicted three police officers and two paramedics whose actions led to the death of McClain in 2019, making it another high-profile case of a Black person dying at the hands of law enforcement.

Rapper and criminal justice activist Meek Mill was in attendance in Virginia along with members of REFORM Alliance to witness the Governor of Virginia sign a bill into law that would reform probation violation sentencing in the state.

Activist Patrisse Cullors announced on Thursday, May 27 that she is resigning her position as executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation that she helped to found in 2013.

The conservative backlash to the acclaim of the widely-heralded 1619 Project by the New York Times Magazine has caused another controversy for journalist and 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Resolution 126-R-19 made the world stop and take notice of the woman that helped to make it all possible—Robin Rue Simmons, Alderman of Evanston’s 5th Ward.

Last month, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives took the highly significant first step of advancing House Resolution 40 by voting it out for full review by the entire House of Representatives. H.R. 40 is a bill that would put together a committee to explore the systemic effects of slavery on those African-American descendants and to detail how these people would receive reparations.

Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson are making it perfectly loud and clear. They are not here for any of the activists and people they feel are making a buck off their dead sons' names and Black pain.

Here is one instance when police bodycam footage actually worked in getting racist cops fired.