The Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s National March on Police Brutality is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, D.C. While attendance estimates are sketchy because of the rushed nature of the event, the march is seemingly being positioned by organizers as the culmination of months of protests that have swept the nation since the Aug.…

Collectively known as the Divine Nine, black fraternities and sororities have long been central to the African-American college experience—standing as vanguards of social justice, community service, black excellence and achievement. So it has been surprising and, to many members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., disappointing that they’ve been…

Known for being the beloved darling of the Grand Old Party, Dr. Ben Carson has a penchant for pathologizing blackness that dovetailed last week with his blatant misogyny, causing the good doc to blame the extrajudicial killing of African-American boys and men on—wait for it—the “women’s lib movement.” “Certainly in a lot of our inner…

Despite the looming specter of police brutality, which casts shadows over street corners, neighborhoods and homes across black America, 56 percent of black voters in New York City support “broken windows” policing tactics, compared with 61 percent of the city’s white voters, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. The controversial policing style frames community…