Black Women Are Being Forced Into C-Sections—With The Court’s Backing
Devastating Update for Billion-Dollar Whiskey Brand ‘Uncle Nearest’ Amid $100 Million Lawsuit
How Angela Davis Predicted The Modern Face Of Fascism in 1971
Black Woman Has a Multi-Million Dollar Victory in Discrimination Case Against City of Fresno
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Black People Are Still Being Disproportionately Arrested for Marijuana Possession: Report
April 20 (4/20) is widely recognized as the smoker’s holiday. It’s a day when marijuana partakers everywhere celebrate the festivities by…well…doing the thing most of them do regularly anyway, except on this day, they’re doing it for the culture. The American Civil Liberties Union, on the other hand, is using the day to draw attention…
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For Decades, Split-Jury Convictions Imprisoned and Silenced Black Defendants. The Supreme Court Finally Found Them Unconstitutional
It’s a rule so common, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was law across the U.S.: that in order to be convicted by a jury of your peers, that jury has to unanimously agree on your guilt. For almost a hundred years, this wasn’t the case in Louisiana, where split decision votes of at least…
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’t Wait on Trump, Orders 500,000 Coronavirus Test Kits From South Korea
What do you do if you are a governor, and the president of the United States is a liar and keeps claiming that he’s given enough testing kits to states for the coronavirus? Well, you can go on national TV and say that the president is lying, which some governors have. Or, if you are…
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Idaho State Rep. Compares Coronavirus Restrictions to Nazi Germany
The last week has shown that the quarantine has officially broken white people. If it’s not taking to the streets in an effort to protest a microscopic virus, it’s going on the radio and saying some truly wild shit about the effort to combat it. NBC News reports that Heather Scott, a Republican state representative…
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Shake Shack Returns $10 Million in Relief Funds and Asks That Small Businesses Be Given More Access
The Paycheck Protection Program was included as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and was touted as a relief fund aimed at bailing out small businesses and nonprofits and helping them pay their workers during the coronavirus pandemic. But since the $349 billion stimulus package overseen by the Small Business…
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Coronavirus Infected 9 People in One Black Family. 3 Died. They Still Have Trouble Getting Tested
First, it came for his son. Tyrone Posey says his wife, 51-year-old Phacethia Posey, began researching coronavirus as soon as the deadly disease started making the headlines. It became more urgent when their son, Tyrone Posey Jr. became the first member of the family to contract the invisible pathogen that would eventually kill three family…
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Michigan Man Completing a 44-Year Life Sentence Dies From Coronavirus Just Weeks Away From Release
Earlier this year, 60-year-old William Garrison had an important choice to make. Convicted to serve a lifetime in prison when he was just 16 years old, Garrison was eligible for parole in February, or he could serve a seven-month sentence and walk away from prison, finally, a free man. Garrison chose freedom, but because of…
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The Teddy Riley of Presidents Is Using Props at His Press Conferences to Rewrite History
On Sunday—partially because the president knows he’s losing and maybe because he has to battle Babyface—the Teddy Riley of presidents came with video footage cut and spliced to show only moments of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo praising the federal government’s coronavirus response. Anyone who has a good set of eyes and doesn’t believe that…
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'We Are Only as Safe as Our Most Vulnerable People': Idris and Sabrina Elba Help Launch Global Coronavirus Relief Fund
Soon after recovering from their own bouts with COVID-19, Idris and Sabrina Elba are diving right in to use their platform and resources to assist others on a global scale. On Monday, the married couple joined the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to launch a new global coronavirus relief fund implemented “to…
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Don’t Forget About the Children Suffering in Silence
“I can’t go home. I can’t go back there,” they stated emphatically, taking breaths between each word. “If I am forced to go home I may die, literally,” a mentee said to me in tears over the phone. They had received notification that they would be forced to vacate their college dormitory within 72 hours,…