*Naomi Campbell has come to Gucci’s defense after the Italian fashion label sparked outrage by selling a $890 sweater that resembled blackface. “I think it’s ridiculous for people to say they were burning their [Gucci] clothes. Don’t burn your clothes. It wasn’t intentional,” Campbell […]
Days after eight white women and 43 white men yelled “Roll Tide!” before voting to pass the nation’s harshest abortion ban, companies are already changing plans on expanding into Alabama, decisions which will surely hit black communities the hardest. But as long as there’s […]
A small group of inmates, disproportionately black, are set to stay in Washington state prisons for life — left out of the latest in a multi-year wave of reforms easing tough-on-crime “three strikes” laws around the U.S. At least 24 states including Washington passed […]
A new report details the negative consequences suffered by black women and girls when people perceive them as older than their white peers. Researchers at Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality reported their findings Wednesday after speaking to groups of black girls and […]
The man who was charged in the killing of two Black shoppers at a Louisville, Kentucky, Kroger grocery store last fall has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. In a ruling last Thursday, Jefferson Circuit Judge Annie O’Connell found that Gregory A. Bush is […]
Like many major cities across the country, Atlanta has been hit hard with gentrification that has pushed too many longtime Black residents from their homes. And the very neighborhood where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.once called home in Georgia’s capital city was […]
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