American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin pictured on April 7, 1998. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty A civil rights icon who had been on probation since 1955 over her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama has […]
By Victor Omondi It’s been a week since Barbados Island was declared a republic, free from its decades-long ties to the British monarchy. The long-awaited split from the monarchy seems to have come with major plans. The young republic is planning to build a trans-Atlantic slave […]
How white should your hair be to work at an event planning company? That’s what Jeffrey Thornton, a Black man from San Diego, wants to know. He’s suing his former employer, Encore Global, in what CBS News reports is the first-ever case based on the CROWN Act, a […]
*Footage of a white woman accusing a Black man of stealing her phone has gone viral, but the phone was in her purse the entire time. The incident reportedly occurred at Spencer’s inside the Sunrise Mall in Sacramento, and the footage has gone viral. The clip was […]
A mostly white jury has been chosen in the trial of former Minnesota Officer Kim Potter over the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Although split evenly by gender, nine jurors are white, two are Asian and only one is Black, all ranging in age from their 20s […]
Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and André Carson (D-Ind.) came together to condemn Republican lawmakers’ inaction after Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo.) repeated Islamophobic remarks against Omar. “When a sitting member of Congress calls a colleague a member of the ‘jihad squad’ and falsifies a story to suggest I will […]