Trayvon's mother attended Essence Music Festival and shared powerful tips for mothers to avoid the same fate she lived through.

Here are all the top news headlines every smart black chick would want on her radar today. Your welcome.

With a rising tide of tension surging between police officers and the Black community, the #BlackLivesMatter protests and the unfortunate series of events surrounding them have given us plenty to talk about. From race to police brutality to the deadly biases inflicted upon the poor souls that have been caught in the wrong place at […]

If people are ever going to begin to understand the pervasiveness and the effect that racism has on the way people of color are perceived, they have to pay closer attention to how our stories are told.

George Zimmerman has absolutely no remorse for killing an unarmed teen, and he’s blaming President Barack Obama for Black people getting so mad at him for it. Two years after he was let off the hook for murdering Trayvon Martin, George released a 13-minute video through his lawyers to reiterate the fact that he’s not […]

This past Friday, an incident that’s scarily become too familiar occurred yet again. Another unarmed, Black man was shot–this time it was 19-year-old Tony Terrell Robinson, Jr. in Madison, Wisconsin. The high school graduate’s death was confirmed by Madison Police’s Police Chief Mike Koval and it was police officer Matt Kenny who pulled the trigger. MUST READ: Michael Brown’s […]

“The New Yorker” is making a statement about racial and social equality for its upcoming cover to be released on Monday, and Martin Luther King Jr. is at the center of it all. This Martin Luther King Day the magazine decided to honor his legacy while calling attention to some of the senseless deaths that […]

George Zimmerman has landed in trouble with the law for the sixth time since he was acquitted in Trayvon Martin‘s shooting death. If it wasn’t already clear, this guy just doesn’t know how to not be an absolutely awful person. The Associated Press reports that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Department apprehended George last night around […]

The family of Matthew Ajibade has hired Mark O’Mara–the attorney and CNN analyst who helped George Zimmerman win a shocking acquittal in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. Ajibade’s family hired O’Mara to help them investigate the death of the 22-year-old, who died in police custody at the Chatham County Detention Center in […]

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Yesterday, it was announced that the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma created a law that would ban hoodies, and masks from being worn in public when participating in illegal activity. The decision is supported by the Senator Don Barrington, after a string of robberies at quick stop places like pizza shops and drugstores were caught on camera […]

The mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice came together for the first time on Dec. 12  to sit for a joint interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The moms of the four dead unarmed black males along with attorney Benjamin Crump, expressed to Cooper if their sons were white they would still be alive. Gwen Carr the […]