A black Georgia teenager lost his leg about a month after a behavioral specialist working at his school threw him to the floor multiple times and then denied him medical treatment.
The 13-year-old student underwent amputation Tuesday, five weeks a ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:15PM
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NEW YORK -- The 66-year-old woman fatally shot by a cop after she charged at him with a baseball bat assailed gun violence and racism in tweets.
Deborah Danner, who identified herself on social media as a programming aficionado who studied compute ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:06PM
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About 2,000 Seattle educators wore Black Lives Matter shirts at their schools Wednesday to call for racial equity in education.
Schools across the district held “Black Lives Matter at School” rallies before classes began for the day. Students, ...
Posted Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 7:02PM
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HOUSTON: Houston OBGYN Dr. Tamika Cross is kicking up a storm on Facebook with a maddening story of prejudice that will surely make you grit your teeth in frustration.
Cross was flying out of Detroit on a Delta Air Lines flight when a man became u ...
Posted Friday, October 14th 2016 at 1:14PM
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A small group gathered today in a hotel suite on the outskirts of Gary, Indiana. The nine formally dressed guests joined hands while standing around a table containing only a white box. Reverend John Jackson of Trinity United Church of Christ started ...
Posted Sunday, October 9th 2016 at 5:56PM
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Melanin is best known as the pigment that dictates our skin tones, but it is found just about everywhere—in our brains, in our hair. It is even found in cuttlefish. But as abundant as melanin is, its exact macromolecular chemical structure is surpr ...
Posted Sunday, October 9th 2016 at 5:38PM
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JEREMIE, Haiti — Houses stood without tops, trees without leaves and the people without hope.
What Hurricane Matthew’s Category 4 winds didn’t tear a hole in during its assault on this city, it snapped in two like a pencil, turning a defores ...
Posted Friday, October 7th 2016 at 3:48PM
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A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to intervie ...
Posted Saturday, October 1st 2016 at 3:41PM
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Nine Philadelphia police officers fired a total of 109 shots Wednesday night at Christopher Sowell, killing him and ending a rampage in West Philadelphia in which he beat, choked or stabbed five people, including his son and daughter, Commissioner Ri ...
Posted Saturday, October 1st 2016 at 3:18PM
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A third grade student in Texas was surprised with a $10,000 scholarship and early admittance to a Texas university after a video of her saying her daily motivational mantra caught the eyes of university administrators.
Jordin Phipps, 8, of Garland ...
Posted Saturday, October 1st 2016 at 3:12PM
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From DemocracyNow.org
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Police in the San Diego, California, suburb of El Cajon shot and killed an unarmed African-American man Tuesday, after his sister called 911 to report her brother was having a mental health emergency. ...
Posted Wednesday, September 28th 2016 at 1:59PM
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A little girl has made a desperate plea to Charlotte city council in a bid to end the deadly cop shootings of black people.
Nine-year-old Zianna Oliphant broke down in tears as she delivered the powerful message to politicians after nearly a w ...
Posted Wednesday, September 28th 2016 at 1:44PM
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Serena Williams has spoken out against policing killings in America, vowing she “won't be silent”.
The tennis champion posted a public message on Facebook two weeks after the fatal police shooting of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher, saying there ...
Posted Wednesday, September 28th 2016 at 1:29PM
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Sunday at the Men’s Day program hosted at Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, DC, Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said to President Barack Obama, “Your people are suffering and dying in the streets of Chicago, so you fa ...
Posted Friday, September 23rd 2016 at 1:05PM
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Steve Harvey used his TV show Thursday to give black viewers some soberingly useful advice.
The host held a town hall-style discussion on race and policing and, as part of the conversation, Harvey shared the tips he’s given his sons on how t ...
Posted Friday, September 23rd 2016 at 12:55PM
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Maryland police today defended the restraining and pepper-spraying of a 15-year-old girl they said was not cooperating after a traffic accident, saying that the actions of officers involved an appropriate amount of force.
The Hagerstown Police ...
Posted Friday, September 23rd 2016 at 12:50PM
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WARNING !! HOME INVASIONS USING RUBBER BANDS !!
We all want to assume that we’re safe inside our homes. But the truth is that criminals can and do go everywhere, and there’s no telling if your home is next on their list.
Recently, a highl ...
Posted Friday, September 9th 2016 at 12:40PM
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016 7:16
By Michael Synder
Could it be possible that Hillary Clinton is covering up a major illness that would make her unfit to serve as president? It has been my contention for a long time that Hillary Clinton would do or ...
Posted Thursday, September 8th 2016 at 1:53PM
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In The Name Of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful
I bear witness there is no god but Allah
And I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger
As-Salaam Alaikum!
To my brother and companion in struggle Colin Kaepernick: I am deeply grate ...
Posted Wednesday, August 31st 2016 at 6:23PM
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Photographs have emerged of armed French police confronting a woman on a beach and making her remove some of her clothing as part of a controversial ban on the burkini.
Authorities in several French towns have implemented bans on the burkini, whic ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2016 at 7:55PM
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INDIANA--An Indianapolis homeowner who called police to report an attempted armed robbery at his house was apparently mistaken for the suspect and shot in the stomach by a responding officer, authorities said.
Carl Williams, a 48-year-old black ma ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2016 at 3:12PM
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JUSTICE OR ELSE UPDATE ((TAG & SHARE)):
Join us for our 21st Anniversary of the Million Man March & Holy Day of Atonement to be held in Atlanta GA. October 14th – 16th.
The Keynote Address by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is schedul ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2016 at 3:06PM
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