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Another day, another Black man’s life senselessly lost. Jason Harrison was shot three times in front of the Dallas home he lived in with his mother by a White police officer last summer. The cops John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins gave the mentally ill patient only mere seconds to stop moving and drop the screwdriver […]

2014 felt like the year that many Black people woke from their slumber. Somehow we’ve been lulled into a comfortable sleep, but it’s apparent that we live in a racially unequal country. But there was something about last year–whether it’s the rise of social media activism or the number of highly public cases where Black […]

An alleged struggle over an LAPD police officer’s gun ended with three officers firing and killing a man on the tragic Skid Row–where many of Los Angeles’ homeless population lives. Similar to the infamous killing of Oscar Grant by a police officer, this shooting was also caught on tape and widely circulated on social media. […]

An Alabama Police Department has just released horrifying dashboard camera video of a grandfather visiting from India being slammed to the ground by an officer.  Sureshbhai Patel, came to Madison, Al from India for a visit with his son’s family, was out for a walk in the neighborhood when he was approached by Field Training Officer Eric Parker […]

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The CEO of your favorite place to get a white chocolate mocha (or is that just us) has gone from admirable coffeehouse entrepreneur to impassioned orator. Howard Schultz, the Starbucks CEO furthered the conversation on America’s stance with diversity and racism and held another open forum with hundreds of Starbucks employees at the California African American Museum this week. […]

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NYPD police officer Peter Liang has been indicted today in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley in Brooklyn on November 2014. Gurley was unarmed in the “pitch black” stairwell of the Louis H. Pink Houses project when he and Liang crossed paths and the officer fired a single shot. MUST READ: Eric Holder Calls Lack […]

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On Norfolk State University grounds, police sent dogs to attack female student and Army Reserve private London Colvin. According to reports, she refused to answer any of their questions or give any information about a fight at a party she wasn’t even involved in. Right before the cops had the dogs charge at her, two of them sat […]

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Charles Blow revealed on Twitter this weekend that the concern and experiences of Black men targeted by cops and authorities are all too real. In fact, it hit home. On Saturday, Blow’s son Tahj was interrogated at gunpoint on the Yale University campus by Yale Police because he was mistaken for a burglar that was […]

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On January 22nd, two days after delivering an epic State of the Union address, President Obama participated in an interview called #YouTubeAsksObama with three of social platform’s most popular vloggers GloZell Green, Bethany Mota and Hank Green. It was another chance for the President to reconnect with the concerns of the youth, as he’s done before with MTV sit-downs with […]

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When news of the North Miami Beach Police using real mugshots as targets for their shooting practice, outcry erupted across the Miami-Dade community and beyond. Now the City Council voted against the use of real photos and while this is progress, protestors also wanted the Police Chief J. Scott Dennis to resign and a public apology issued to […]

22-year-old college student Joseph Swink was brutally beaten by police after they mistook him for a suspect (Anton Simmons) in a car chase. Those police officers in St. Louis county are now apologizing for their actions that left Swink with severe damage to his ear and a totaled car. Swink was on his way from […]