About Monique John

When she\'s not bike riding in Brooklyn or hanging with friends, Mo can be found writing news, op-eds and feature stories for HelloBeautiful.com. As a proud black feminist, Mo\'s writing credits include The Root, For Harriet and The Feminist Wire. She has also frequently appeared on Arise TV as a cultural and political commentator.

Throughout the trial, the defense has been emphasizing many of the victims' pasts in sex work and drug use, accusing them of lying and of having agendas to debunk their credibility.

The decisions that the Supreme Court justices make in these cases could have huge and negative impacts on our voting power as well as our chances at college admission.

Having a college degree is a blessing wherever you decide to go to school. But there is something about the HBCU experience that can't and won't ever be imitated at predominantly White institutions.

What will it take for Barack Obama to utter the phrase "Black Lives Matter" with the rest of us?

Holtzclaw is facing 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, forcible sodomy and stalking. The former Oklahoma City cop could be served with a life sentence if convicted.

Bryant was left alone in darkness inside of an Atlanta City jail cell. It had been hours before anyone realized she was dead.

Holtzclaw made it his practice to sexually assault vulnerable Black women. Now his legal defense team is taking the same approach by reducing his victims to criminals to keep him out of jail.

Fellow protestors are saying that London, a revered activist from Chicago's Black Youth Project, was wrongfully accused of assaulting a police officer as he was arrested at last night's protests.

As the hashtag trends among #BlackLivesMatter supporters, a march is being held in Cleveland to call for the removal of Prosecutor Tim McGinty from Rice's case.

This week, students were alarmed to find that the portraits of Harvard Law School's Black tenured professors were defaced with black gaffer tape.

As the gunmen raided the building, they fired their guns and yelled "God is great," in Arabic.