Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is often remembered for his nonviolent fight for civil rights and his moving calls for…
“Then get over here,” yelled a 20-something-year-old black woman into her phone outside of the posh Dior store in…
At first, it felt easy enough to laugh at them.
Since the tragic death of her son Trayvon Martin in 2012, Sybrina Fulton has evolved into an unwavering force against…
It’s been four years since “I Can’t Breathe” became a rallying cry for black Americans fed up with the systemic…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants you to know that if you say things like “Don’t beat a dead horse,”…
She said the “devil” was at her door.
Activists and members of the media are posting tributes to Bassem Masri, a Muslim Palestinian-American civil rights…
Editor’s note: Intersex Awareness Day is October 26.
A few weeks before his death, 77-year-old Frederick Douglass was asked what advice he would give to a young black…
Eight years after learning that her daughter had tested positive for dangerous levels of lead—the result of living for…
Updated Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, 4:55 p.m. EST: Erica Garner is still fighting for her life after suffering brain…
Kwanzaa, like black America, was birthed in struggle and chaos, then bathed in blood. It was born in the freedom…
Daniel Shaver, 26, is dead. Mesa, Ariz., Police Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, 27, a cowboy armed with an…
With the number of lethal and nonlethal shootings, robberies and assaults on the rise in Baltimore, police and…
When tens of thousands of people converge on statehouses across the nation and the U.S. Capitol in May 2018, it will be…
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