“The forces behind the drug war seem to be achieving their desired outcome. The pharmaceutical industry is winning, the prison industrial complex is winning, the anti-hemp industries are winning, and the Drug Enforcement Agency’s budget explodes every year as it
The White woman who ignited a national debate over her being caught masquerading as a Black woman will headline the Naturally Isis Braid-On, Economic Liberty March and Rally in Dallas. Rachel Dolezal was invited by Isis Brantley, a celebrity stylist,
More than a dozen universities — including Brown, Harvard and the University of Virginia — have publicly recognized their ties to slavery and the slave trade. But Craig Steven Wilder and Alfred L. Brophy, two historians who have studied universities
Companies like CheapAir and Airfordable are making the high cost of travel more feasible for customers to handle. CheapAir has partnered with financial services company Affirm to allow fliers to take out three, six and 12-month purchase plans to cover
With a record so deplorable that The Nation featured her in a cover story asking, “Is Angela Corey the most hated prosecutor in America?” Angela Corey has put hundreds of kids in prison, and dozens of people on death row.
Joey Womack Atlanta is starting to think about how the city will look if its population inside city limits doubles to over 1 million in the coming decades. Residents will hear Arthur C. Nelson, a University of Arizona planning professor
Mo’ne Davis, 15, of 2014 Little League World Series fame, has hung up her baseball cleats in favor of basketball sneakers. Heading into her sophomore year of high school at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, she’s aiming for a career in
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, of the Roots, might readily admit that he is the nerdiest of music nerds. He’s one of those artists who is almost as relentlessly old school in his meticulous perusal of album liner notes as he and
Ava DuVernay was honored and awe-struck when she received the call commissioning her to make a film for the new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Tasked with creating a work of art that would be installed on
Hall of Fame San Francisco 49er receiver Jerry Rice invoked the three magically-dismissive words Black Lives Matter activists have grown accustomed to hearing in his passive-aggressive take on Colin Kaepernick’s recent controversial stance. “All lives matter. So much going on
Colin Kaepernick jumped into a firestorm of controversy this week with hopes of sparking productive conversations and actions around racial injustice in America. Questions abound about his motives and whether his choice was born of courage or cowardice. Any analysis
America’s Got Talent host and Wild’n Out producer/host Nick Cannon is starting his freshman year of college at 35. “I am using these airplanes like school buses,” he joked in an interview with ET. “I get Tuesday and Wednesday off
The State University of New York at Binghamton has created a course called Stop White People, which it intends to deliver to each resident advisor, aka RA. Three resident advisors reportedly teach the course to encourage deeper understandings of privilege
Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Rise Pichon has granted the request of Judge Aaron Persky for reassignment. Persky was harshly criticized and subjected to a recall campaign over the leniency of a six-month jail sentence for a former Stanford University
Marcellus Wiley spoke at “An Undefeated Conversation: Athletes, Responsibility, and Violence” on Aug. 25, 2016, at the South Side YMCA in Chicago. Four panels made up of community members, athletes, and journalists talked about gun violence solutions and how athletes can
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 has been declared Kobe Bryant day in honor of the great basketball player, and the two jersey numbers he wore over his historic career. “Among his astonishing list of accomplishments, Kobe Bryant’s 20-year career with the
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition was observed across the world on Tuesday, Aug. 23. The purpose of the observation is to pay tribute to the people who revolted against the system of slavery
Social media is buzzing about a provocative new reality series, “Co-Parenting With The Spurlings.” The show tackles issues arising from divorce while demonstrating family values, morals and life lessons. Viewers will get a front-row seat to view the personal struggles
The Justice Department’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced plans to end its use of private prisons in a memo instructing officials to either decline to renew or substantially reduce the scope of contracts with private prison operators, citing a
With classes scheduled to start August 30, a collective of suburban Los Angeles colleges are in the middle of controversy sparked by a group of students trying to get their off-campus housing situation in order. Karé Ureña, a junior at Pitzer
