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“I did feel like he was being denied the dignity of death.” That’s what Julion Evans’ mom, Julie Atwood, thought of the refusal by New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Tampa, Fla., to conduct her son’s service after finding out that he was a gay man, according to WFLA. Atwood was given the news the…

Black women aren’t faring well, healthwise, in the state of Wisconsin. According to the journal Health Affairs, the life-expectancy gap between black and white women in the state widened by more than 1.5 years between 1990 and 2009. There was also a small uptick for black men, reports WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio. Geoffrey Swain, medical director…

Shaneen Allen is a Philadelphia single mom, a law-abiding citizen and legally licensed in her hometown to carry a weapon. But now she’s facing at least three years in prison—and possibly more, New Jersey’s My9 reports.  Things went awry for the mother of two last month when she traveled to New Jersey, where her license isn’t…

John Crawford III lost his life over a toy gun. At least that’s what his relatives are claiming, and they are taking their case to civil rights organizations, the Dayton Daily News reports. According to the news site, on Tuesday night Crawford was talking on his cellphone to the mother of his two children, LeeCee…

A new study suggests that white people support harsher criminal laws if they believe more black people are incarcerated, reports ThinkProgress. Rebecca Hetey and Jennifer Eberhardt of Stanford University’s psychology department conducted the study, in which white subjects watched two videos of mug shots. One video showed mug shots in which 25 percent were those…

Just like the rest of their peers ages 18 to 34, black millennials have embraced online dating services like OkCupid and mobile applications such as Tinder, where users can simply “swipe right to like or left to pass” as they sift through their dating and, yes, hookup options. Matchmaker and dating coach Paul Carrick Brunson…

Millennials, those born between 1980 and 1999, are arguably the most misunderstood and the most multidimensional generation. Often derided as lazy, technology crazed and just downright not as successful as our elders, members of Generation Y hardly ever hear good news about ourselves. And of course, black millennials, who have made leaps in education and…

I’m not in a committed relationship, but I am dating someone (nothing physical). Another guy has asked me on a date, which I accepted. My friends are giving me grief, saying I should date one person at a time and give it a chance to grow. Am I wrong?” —Anonymous Your friends are good people…