Chiara de Blasio, the 19-year-old daughter of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, opened up about her struggles with depression and substance abuse in both a moving speech and an essay published by xoJane. The younger de Blasio traveled to Maryland Tuesday to accept an award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human…

On April 15, more than 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their school in the town of Chibok. The Islamic militant group Boko Haram has been blamed for the incident. Since the kidnapping, details have been mired in controversy. With so much conflicting information, it is hard to keep the facts straight. Here is what…

Oakland, Calif.’s, BART system has become the location of another police injustice, charges one woman. Nubia Bowe, 19, and two friends were returning home on a BART train the night of March 21 when police accused them of solicitation, Oakland Post News Group reports. BART police had entered the Lake Merritt station to respond to…

This is not the first time Bill O’Reilly has ranted about Beyoncé, but this might be his most ridiculous. The Fox television host decried Beyoncé’s appearance on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, accusing the singer of “harming” children, according to the Guardian. The newspaper reported that the conservative talking head…

Very rarely do we hear about gun violence between young girls. A 14-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 14-year-old Endia Martin. According to ABC7 Chicago, Endia was shot by a female classmate on Monday while walking home from Tilden Career Academy, when she was shot in the…

If you are raising a black child, think twice before moving to Wisconsin. A recent study has found that no state is worse for black children than the Badger State. According to the study “Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children,” from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Wisconsin has the country’s worst…

Rappers Common and Kanye West are giving back to their native city Chicago in a big way. The two, along with rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith, are teaming up with the Chicago Urban League to create 1,000 year-round jobs for city youths, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The partnership, the Chicago Youth Jobs Collaborative, comes on the…

The Center for American Progress released a new report (pdf) on Friday indicating that low-income students of color are more likely to have not only less experienced teachers but also less effective ones, the Huffington Post reports. The organization analyzed evaluation scores of teachers in affluent and low-income districts in Louisiana and Massachusetts. According to American Progress,…

College admissions letters are out, and for the Class of 2018, Harvard University has accepted a record-high percentage of black students. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, of Harvard’s total acceptances for the Class of 2018, 11.9 percent are black, the highest ever for the university. The journal estimates that nearly 170…

I first heard someone at a black student union party refer to herself—and to me, by extension—as a “regular black.” The music had made a quick turn from the latest rap song to a Caribbean dancehall mix. “Oh, I’m regular black; I don’t dance to this music.” Well, this “regular black” continued dancing, but I…