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 […]
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 […]
Although Americans are more receptive to the legalization of marijuana, that acceptance of pot is not reflected in the criminal justice system. About 61 percent of Americans say marijuana should be legalized, a sentiment that has increased steady in recent years, according to the Pew Research […]
Police formed a tight perimeter around a Tennessee state-owned hotel Saturday, guarding a white nationalist conference inside the building from anti-racist protesters gathered outside. American Renaissance, a racist Virginia-based organization listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, reserved the 125 rooms inside Montgomery […]
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