The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out what led to the police shooting death of a 36-year-old woman in the Atlanta suburb of Johns Creek. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified the woman as 36-year-old Shukri Ali Said, who was fatally shot around 7:15 a.m., on Saturday […]
We all know that black girls are disciplined more harshly for the same infractions as their white peers in schools (and life), but a new study shows that part of this disparity is linked to school uniform policies. The National Women’s Law Center recently looked at school […]
While speaking at one of the Tennessee Waffle House shooting victim‘s funeral, the restaurant’s CEO revealed that 21-year-old DeEbony Groves was singing gospel songs prior to her death. A friend of Groves and one of the survivors of the shooting told Walt Ehmer they were singing before 29-year-old gunman […]
Voting rights advocates are prepared to keep battling Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. That pledge came after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a lower court’s decision to block Texas from […]
Chikesia Clemons, whose arrest by officers at an Alabama Waffle House sparked outrage after video of the incident went viral, has spoken out publicly about the incident in a TV interview. “I’m just taking it day by day, it’s just so hard on me. I can’t […]
*Straight from the mouths of babes. This is a video circulating on social media and its proof that you don’t have to be up there in age to have wisdom. A little African American girl, with fists balled up in anguish, wearing a pink shirt with […]