A 17-year-old student endured constant racist harassment at her predominantly white school in Texas, and when she fought back, the student was sent to an alternative program where she would have to wear an orange jumpsuit, driving the girl to be hospitalized in a mental […]
More and more Black women are unapologetically flaunting their Black hairstyles in their work environments. Fionnghuala “Fig” O’Reilly is a 29-year-old Black engineer making an impact in the STEM industry as she sports her braided hair in the science lab. According to Yahoo Life, O’Reilly, born to an American […]
Source: Frazer Harrison / Getty Update: His wife, fellow dancer Allison Holker, confirmed his death via a statement to PEOPLE: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us. Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He […]
A brave football coach, Ben Becker, 20, is in the hospital with critical gunshot wounds after shielding his team from a drive-by in Jacksonville, Florida. Sadly, a young boy named Prince Holland was killed in the shooting. Family, friends, and members of the community gathered Friday night to […]
Arguably one of the most important Black figures in the feminist movement has died. Dorothy Pitman Hughes passed away on December 1 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Delethia and Jonas Malmsten in Tampa, Florida. She was 84 years old. Born in 1938 in Lumpkin, Georgia, Hughes […]
Tulsa and Rosewood are the places that rush to mind when people think of the recent brutal, forced displacement of people of color. What about Palm Springs, Calif.? City officials and land developers, looking to capitalize on rising land values, colluded to forcibly remove hundreds of Black and […]
Officials have announced that an Ohio woman has been found dead in Pennsylvania after she was reported missing by Cleveland police earlier this month. According to CBS affiliate station WKBN 27, 23-year-old Andrianna Kiri Taylor of Cleveland was last heard from by family members on Saturday, Oct. 8, according to […]
An Ohio man, who was caught on video punching a Black woman in the face outside of a bar, has been sentenced to six months in jail. While in court for his sentencing, the man apologized, saying the experience has been an “eye-opener about his […]
Source: twitter / Twitter Recently, 12-year-old Markell Noah of Jackson, Mississippi, was reported missing only to be found dead in an abandoned home later the same day. According to the Jackson Police Department, Markell had been involved in a game of Russian roulette with two other juveniles […]
Florida officials announced the arrest of a woman on suspicion of stabbing a man to death last week. The discovery occurred after a welfare check at the home of 43-year-old Eugenia Bright on the 800 block of Mecca Drive in Sarasota County, according to a news release issued […]
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