Parents gathered at the school and issued a plea to authorities to bring the missing boys to safety On Saturday gunfire broke out between the Nigerian military and a gang that had kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina the night before, according to Reuters. The kidnappers were found hiding in a nearby…
In a page seemingly taken right out of Donald Trump‘s white supremacist campaign playbook, a photo showing Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler smiling alongside a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a brutally racist history has gone viral this weekend. Chester Doles apparently posted the photo on his Facebook after the two of them posed while…
The family was forced out of their home at gunpoint A Black family in Portland, Oregon has lost their home of 60 years due to foreclosure after taking out mortgages to pay their legal fees. Protesters barricaded the property they’ve referred to as “The Red House” and are shedding light on modern-day concerns regarding urban…
The Treasury Department deferred comment to the National Security Council Hackers apparently got into computers at the US Treasury Department and possibly other federal agencies, touching off a government response involving the National Security Council. “The United States government is aware of these reports and we are taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy…
On Wednesday, Dec. 2, the U.S. Supreme Court began to weigh a case that challenges convictions made under “racist Jim Crow” jury laws that allowed people to be convicted of felonies by non-unanimous juries. The Supreme Court ruled in April in a case brought by Evangelisto Ramos, a Louisiana inmate convicted for a 2014 murder…
‘This was a hilarious birthday gift. Thank you @nbcsnl,’ said Warwick on Twitter Last night, on Dionne Warwick’s 80th birthday, Saturday Night Live delivered a “Dionne Warwick Talk Show” sketch, which paid homage to the legendary singer and the way she has been killing it on social media lately. Although she’s fairly new to social…
Crystal Etienne founded Ruby Love and never again will you need to throw out your sheets or underwear because of your menstrual cycle Crystal Etienne is the founder of Ruby Love, a Black-owned business created to help those who suffer from menstruation mishaps and incontinence due to age, birth, or a medical condition. Founded in…
Caitlin Gooch says she was inspired by her state’s poor child literacy rates Caitlin Gooch, 28, is the founder of the non-profit organization Saddle Up and Read (SUAR). Gooch rides on one of her family’s horses and delivers books to young children at elementary schools, libraries and youth groups to encourage reading. The Wendell, North…
D.C. police declined to say whether any arrests were made in the cases Late Saturday night, pro-Trump demonstrators were seen on video ripping and setting fire to Black Lives Matter banners at two African American churches in D.C., according to the Washington Post. According to the Black Lives Matter organization, the group targeted Ashbury United…
Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty The racist, violent social media videos showing a far-right group vandalizing Black churches during a protest in Washington, D.C., against the presidential election results evoked imagery of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) burning crosses, one of the churches’ pastors said. The Proud Boys were in the nation’s capital to support…
