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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday that the Justice Department may still file federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the February 26, 2012 slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, reports The Hill. RELATED: Holder To NAACP: Trayvon’s Death Made Me Sit Down With My Son Holder, however, also cautioned that most of the case had been resolved […]

CNN’s Don Lemon endorsed New York City’s racist ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy during his regular appearance on the ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show,’ and Black Twitter responded furiously with the #DonLemonOn hashtag. RELATED: Don Lemon’s 5 Points Of Advice For Blacks: ‘Pull You Pants Up, Pick Up The Trash & Stop Having Babies’ [GIFS] “So goes New York City, so […]

Marissa Alexander has a trial date that is set for November 8th. While this is a small piece of good news, it’s still not the freedom she deserves, but it’s one step closer. A judge will decide if Marissa will be released from prison as she waits for her new trial after an incident in […]

The D.C. Court of Appeals, led by George W. Bush appointee, Judge Janice Rogers Brown, sided with business owners on Nov. 1, ruling that the birth control mandate included in the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is “self-defeating” and a “cognizant burden” on employers’ religious freedoms. In a scathing opinion, Brown, who has vehemently opposed mandatory […]

After years of bullying and racist jokes, 19-year-old Keisha Austin decided to ditch her Black-sounding name for something more neutral. According to reports, the Kansas City, MO teen officially changed her name to Kylie. “It’s like they assumed that I must be a certain kind of girl,” she told the Kansas City Star. “Like, my […]

This commercial may seem like a simple Indian wedding and will certainly warm your heart, but it’s more than that. An a non-Indian, I will admit that I didn’t understand the subtle progressive cues it displayed. But once the conversation sparked on social media about the imagery, I knew that there was something bigger in […]

In a piercing poem entitled “I Used To Think” published in the 1983 poetry collection, Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, writer and editor Chirlane McCray, wife of NYC mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio, tackles narrow European beauty standards and the White supremacy that undergirds them head on. The poem stands as a powerful literary example of why […]

Tomorrow is election day in New Jersey, and the state’s gubernatorial ticket is one for the history books. While current governor Chris Christie’s popularity has…

During and after the brilliant 2013 Black Girls Rock event on Sunday, Nov. 3, some White girls and Black men on Twitter formed a grotesque alliance to silence and shame Black women for celebrating ourselves. For the fourth year in a row, BLACK GIRLS ROCK! founder and community activist Beverly Bond, joined with Black Entertainment Network (BET) to […]

Disgraced former Rep. Jesse Jackson could be released from federal prison on Dec. 31, 2015 if he acts like Dr. Conrad Murray and behaves himself while behind those bars. In case you don’t remember, most of us stopped respecting the offspring to one of the biggest Civil Rights leaders of our time, when we found […]

Kevin Hart is more than just a comedian turned hilarious actor. The Philadelphia born and bred funnyman decided to help out the struggling Philadelphia school system by donating a quarter of a million dollars! “I felt like the city was in a time of need. I feel like it’s good to step up and show […]

Every episode of “Scandal” is intense but last night was absolutely CRAZY! The episode started off calm with Liv and her father doing their usual Sunday dinners, hoping that things would return to normal between the two of them. But normal clearly doesn’t exist within the Pope family and somehow the conversation switched to Papa […]