Stephen A. Smith has apologized following his controversial statements last week on Fox News, where he attempted to equate Donald Trump’s mounting legal problems with the historic struggles of Black people, sparking outrage on social media, mainly among civil rights advocates. Four days after his disastrous comments, […]
After the University of Pennsylvania announced the reburial of the 19 Black people whose bones were used for racist scientific research, the community criticized officials at the Philadelphia school for their lack of involvement in the decision. Spearheaded by physician Samuel George Morton in the 1830s, The Associated Press […]
A Fort Bragg soldier who was caught trying to enter the base with illegal weapons, Nazi memorabilia and plans to rid several North Carolina counties of minorities pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle on April 25. Noah Edwin Anthony, 23, was caught trying […]
The increase of hate crimes against the Black community has been an ongoing concern. Though, to me, the most despicable aspect of the spike is that some of the most hateful acts used to threaten Black people during the Jim Crow era have now resurfaced. Axel C. Cox, 24, certainly […]
A US Army soldier was kicked out after he said he enlisted in the service to become better at killing Black people following an FBI investigation. CNN reports Killian M. Ryan was arrested on Aug. 26 and charged with one count of knowingly making a false statement on his application […]
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer In a long-overdue act of accepting responsibility, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chose to own up to massacring a Black neighborhood 35 years ago. Any Black American person who is old enough traumatically remembers the May 13, […]
London — The outpouring of pent-up frustration about racism in the United Kingdom caught many White people by surprise. Who did not think the country had made big strides towards tolerance and equal opportunity over the past few decades? Who was concerned that statues […]
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