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A new study from the Black Youth Project also found that the incarceration rate for Black women aged 18 and 19 is almost five times higher than for White female counterparts.
Pryor had won Mario Tricoci's "Mario, Make Me a Model" contest just over a month before her untimely death.
A group of African-Americans are accusing Spirit Airlines of racial discrimination after they were kicked off a flight from Los Angeles to Dallas.
A new study from the Pew Research Center says that the number of African immigrants moving to America has almost doubled each decade since 1970.
Yale Chapter Of Frat Had “White Girls Only” Party Policy College coeds recently took to social media to share stories of being denied entry to a Sigma Alpha Epsilon party at Yale. The fraternity is “shocked and flabbergasted” by these accusations though this isn’t the first time the organization has been caught being racist. [NY Post] Transgender […]
As highlighted by the APs investigative report and Daniel Holtzclaw's serial rape trial, there is a rarely-tapped history of sexual assault by the police against Black women.
"I wouldn't want anyone else to go through what we did," said Jess Gregory, one of the woman who was turned away.
“Instead of us fighting, she tried to turn it around and make it something fun,” said D.C. teen Aaliyah Taylor.
In the wake of viral footage capturing the violent arrest of a Black teenage student by a school resource officer, a debate between those outraged by the now-fired Deputy Ben Fields’ actions and those who defended him has emerged. It’s a familiar, sinister one that continues to haunt Black women and girls wherever they go. […]
Atlanta Police had no clue who they had just nabbed when they picked up an elderly woman for reportedly stealing some designer jewelry. Doris Payne, 84, was arrested on October 23, 2015, for allegedly making off with a $690 Christian Dior diamond ring from Saks Fifth Avenue at Phipps Plaza Mall. According to the Atlanta […]
Based on a viral video of Deputy Officer Ben Fields assaulting a Black female high school student, a local sheriff has requested that the SC FBI and the US Justice department intervene for an independent investigation.
While Blacks constitute 39 percent of Greensboro’s citizens that are of driving-age, they make up 54 percent of the drivers pulled over.
