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‘Get Ya Black Asses Back to Work’: EEOC Sues Construction Company for Racism at a Tennessee Worksite

The suit accuses the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, which helped build a Google data center, of segregating work crews.

By

Rachel Pilgrim

Published

October 7, 2021
News

Hate Crimes in the U.S. Have Reached a New High, FBI Reports

African Americans are the most targeted racial group by a wide margin, according to the FBI’s new annual hate crime statistics.

By

Rachel Pilgrim

Published

August 31, 2021
News, Race Matters

Mount Laurel Racist Faces New Weapons, Drug and Stalking Charges

Edward Matthews will likely always be a racist, but I bet he'll think twice before harassing his Black neighbors and then turning on his own location again.

By

Zack Linly

Published

July 9, 2021
LGBTQ, Politics

Parents of Black Gay Alabama Teen Who Died by Suicide Sue City and School District Alleging School Staff Failed to Help

It’s hard being young and Black in America. In fact, it’s hard being part of any marginalized community in the U.S. and in the world, and many people, even activists and educators, at times forget the importance of intersectionality. So now we need to have a conversation about how often Black people who also happen…

By

Zack Linly

Published

April 15, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

Why Some Reactions to Kirk Franklin's Leaked Phone Call With His Son Are More Concerning Than These Grown-Folks' Business

Let me start by saying that I am not privy to the details or history of the relationship between gospel music heavyweight Kirk Franklin and his 32-year-old son, Kerrion Franklin. Though Kerrion posted audio on Instagram over the weekend of his father yelling, “I will break your fucking neck,” and calling him all kinds of…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 15, 2021
News, Race Matters

Black Middle School Student Allegedly Shot With BB Guns, Called Racial Slurs and Made to Drink Urine During Texas Sleepover

Police officials and the Plano Independent School District of Plano, Texas, are investigating allegations made by a Black middle school student and his family involving bullying, racism and unbelievable cruelty. The family alleges that a group of students at Haggard Middle School invited 13-year-old SeMarion Humphrey to a sleepover, only to force him to drink…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 6, 2021
Politics

21-Year Military Veteran Who Was Key Witness In Trump’s Impeachment Retiring Due to ‘Campaign of Bullying’

Think about this for a second: a man who doesn’t love America, who dodged the draft because he had sensitive bones (which may or may not have been a lie), has led a campaign of intimidation and retaliation so intense that a U.S. Army veteran is retiring after 21 years of service to his country.…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

July 8, 2020
Beauty + Style

So Fresh and So Clean: An Empowered Ayanna Pressley Claps Back at Alopecia-Shaming Trolls

It was only last month that Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) revealed her alopecia diagnosis here at The Glow Up, and just last week when she proudly stood on the floor of the House of Representatives with her bald head on display for the first time. For a rising political figure who was already a force…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

February 7, 2020
Legal, News

Mother of 50 Cent’s Rumored ‘Third Son’ Suing New York City After Teen Was Bullied and Beaten at Charter School

A teenager once believed to be the “third son” of 50 Cent has allegedly been bullied and beaten in school. Now, his mother is suing New York City for millions. Myasia Dickerson says when students at Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Charter High School got wind that 14-year-old Davian Fraser had a close association with the hip-hop kingpin…

By

Brooklyn Baldwin

Published

January 12, 2020
Education, News

Lawsuit Accuses Principal and School Staff of Throwing a 9-Year-Old Out Onto a Frigid Chicago Street and Lying About It

A bullied 9-year-old boy had his trauma compounded by being thrown out onto a cold Chicago street by school staff, including the principal, a federal lawsuit filed by the boy’s family claims. According to CBS 2 Chicago, Yvonne Pinkston says her son frequently complained of being bullied by other kids at Fiske Elementary School after…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

October 2, 2019