Confronting the stigma that millennial artists are less inclined to marry their craft with social issues, the 2015 BET Awards stood out as not only
A trial date for the six Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray has finally been set by Administrative Judge W. Michel Pierson, the Baltimore Sun reports. The date is set for Oct. 13. Judge Barry G. Williams will preside over the criminal cases of the officers, each of whom has entered not-guilty pleas […]
Before nine innocent people were brutally murdered by self-proclaimed hatemonger Dylann Roof in Charleston, South Carolina, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, and R&B/soul crooner D’Angelo met for the first time in Oakland, California. Like D’Angelo’s 2014 Black Messiah album, the conversations between these conscious figures embodied ideas surrounding the Black man’s plight […]
During a Monday interview with comedian Marc Maron, President Barack Obama used the n-word to drive home the point that the shunning of the word in
Protesters have been accused of defacing a Confederate statue in Charleston, South Carolina, reports the Huffington Post. The tagging was discovered over the weekend when Emanuel
As Rachel Dolezal continues to defend her identity as a Black woman, the 37-year-old is leaving even more people puzzled, recently claiming she might not
“Not Coming Home” is an original song by Mike de la Rocha capturing the growing movement to end state violence across America. Featuring artwork from the Manifest:Justice art exhibit, the video is a call to action for people to download the Mobile Justice App to record and report incidents of police misconduct while joining the […]
Settlement reached in case of unarmed black woman killed by homeowner on his porch http://t.co/B8R3tl5p0F — Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) June 15, 2015 The family of
A shooting in an Iowa Mall caused one woman to lose her life. Last night at 7 p.m. shoppers heard a gunman fire his weapon, hitting at least one female. We pray for the victims and their loved ones at this time. [ABC News] Rachel Dolezal, the Caucasian woman who pretended to be black, says […]
A judge has supported murder charges against the police officers set to stand trial for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, NBC News reports. Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine stated probable cause was found to charge Cleveland police Officer Timothy Loehmann with murder for shooting the child as he played with a pellet gun in November. […]
In what critics are calling a gross misrepresentation of facts, Ferguson, Missouri’s police chief is under fire for claiming in a recent interview that it took hours to remove 18-year-old Michael Brown‘s body from the street after he was shot “because of hostile fire against our officers,” according to The Los Angeles Times. Interim Police […]
After two young Black men were killed by officers in New York City and Cincinnati this week, the death toll for the number of people killed by police in the nation rose to 500 — more than twice the rate most recently recorded by the FBI in 2013, according to The Guardian. The numbers are […]
