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Alice Barker is 102-year-old and she used to be a dancer in the chorus line in the 30s and 40s. She would dance on stages…
The cop that allegedly gunned down Eric Harris is going on a Caribbean vacation before his next court appearance. After pleading not guilty to charges…
Washington finally got something done! The Senate announced Tuesday that it had reached a “bipartisan” deal on a controversial anti-human trafficking bill, which had previously…
Bruh! Who hurt you? Michael Eric Dyson wrote the longest read we’ve ever read for the New Republic. The subject matter that made him furiously…
*UPDATE* The U.S. Department of Justice is opening an investigation into Freddie Gray’s death. “The Department of Justice has been monitoring the developments in Baltimore,…
70-year-old Ken Wayne Broskey is a terminally ill Uber driver who took the job to pay off the house he shares with his daughter and…
A number of police officers and city officials in one small Missouri town have resigned after a Black woman was elected mayor. The people of…
In a seriously frightening display of anti-immigrant sentiment, it appears that Europe’s “fear of foreigners,” as one U.N. official put it, has contributed to the…
Baltimore police chased and tackled 25-year-old Freddie Gray a week ago and less than an hour after the encounter, a spinal injury placed him in…
We were shocked and saddened by news of Titi Branch’s reported suicide in her Manhattan apartment last December 4. But today, Miko Branch, Titi’s beloved sister and co-founder of…
Ah, Ben Affleck. Hollywood Golden Boy. Two-time Oscar winner. One half of the phenomenon that was “Bennifer.” And the descendent of a slave-owning family member? Yikes! Affleck’s apparent…
On Friday, a Black man identified as Thaddeus McCarroll, 23, was shot and killed by the St. Louis County Police for allegedly charging at them with a…
