All those who want justice for Eric Garner—the Staten Island, N.Y., father who died after New York City police officers placed him in a choke hold during an arrest—will be relieved by this update. According to the Daily News, the New York City medical examiner has declared Garner’s death a homicide—by choke hold. Some of…

On June 27, black BART track-maintenance workers said they found graffiti messily drawn in black marker on three of their lockers. It read: “F-you [first name of worker] dies N-,” according to Jody LeWitter, an attorney representing the workers of California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit agency, SFGate reports. The employees said in a statement that…

Black journalists have flocked to Boston for the 39th annual National Association of Black Journalists Convention & Career Fair, which is being held at Hynes Convention Center. It’s the first time NABJ has convened in the city once notorious for racial antagonism and tension. As the journalists filed in from media outlets throughout the country,…

A former Stanford student-athlete has alleged that 1 OAK, a New York City nightclub that has played host to a slew of celebrities, refused her entry July 26 because she’s black, Radar Online reports. The woman, who spoke to Radar Online anonymously, said she visited the club because she knew the promoter. When she and…

Yesterday I appeared in court to have a DNA test result read. It turns out the boy I have been taking care of for the last four years isn’t mine. The mother—my girlfriend—has to back-pay me, yet that doesn’t make me feel any better. I know men aren’t supposed to cry, but everything is hurting,…

Three days before choreographer Camille A. Brown presents her electrifying dance-theater work Mr. TOL E. RAncE at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival in New York City, she and seven members of her company, plus composer-pianist Scott Patterson, gather around a laptop computer in a studio at the City Center before a rehearsal. Amid hearty laughter,…

If you have stellar vocal ability, experience with period pieces, a passion for community theater, are willing to work for free—oh, and you are a black man—a Southern California playhouse may have a spot for you, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Costa Mesa Playhouse in Orange County, Calif., has hit a roadblock in its…

Lockport, N.Y., police apparently thought it would be OK to label the complexion of 19-year-old Shamir Allen as “dark Negro” on his mug shot in the police department’s database, WGRZ-TV reports. Allen was detained for alleged involvement in a string of shootings that have hit the city this year, according to WGRZ. The Lockport Police…

There was a time, not long ago when I—shrouded in groupthink and male privilege—would have reacted to the promo cover art for Nicki Minaj’s latest single, “Anaconda,” in pretty much the same vein as AllHipHop.com’s founder and CEO, Chuck Creekmur. His response to Minaj—who poses for her cover photo with legs agape, backside to the…

Reginald Anthony Klaiber is facing hate crime charges after stabbing a 15-year-old transgender girl in the back while riding the Washington, D.C., Metro, according to BuzzFeed. The girl and her friends were riding the Metro’s Green Line on Wednesday when they were approached by Klaiber around 4:30 p.m. “He came to my friend and said…