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by Dani McClain Shonta Montgomery hugs her son Levell Jones at California Institute for Women in Chino, California. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)  (THE NATION) This week, black women in more than a dozen jails across […]

by Kevin McGill NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The statue of the Confederacy’s president had been hoisted from its stone pedestal in the pre-dawn hours and the blue glint of police lights was still visible two […]

Ben Carson By Sam Levine, huffingtonpost.com Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is concerned that those who rely on the government for help with their housing aren’t too comfortable. The New York […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke A day after Taylor Dumpson, who is an African American woman, was elected to be student body president at American University, nooses and bananas (some with the words “AKA Free” on […]

by Alex Lasker A clothing company has apologized after a racist, user-created T-shirt slipped through a filtration system and ended up for sale on its website. Teespring, a custom design company which allows users to […]

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Millions of Americans are uncertain about their future as a new health care bill heads to the Senate. The American Health Care Act would shake things up. It could open the […]

Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 by a neighborhood watchman. (Photo credit SYBRINA FULTON) By Taryn Finley, huffingtonpost.com An aviation school in Florida is honoring Trayvon Martin with a posthumous degree at its commencement this month. Florida […]

By David Love, Atlanta Black Star In what is being described as the largest single dismissal of wrongful criminal convictions in U.S. history, a Massachusetts court has dismissed over 21,000 drug-related cases after it was […]

By Namrata Tripathi, International Business Times After the death of the Italian woman Emma Morano, who held the title of the world’s oldest person, Jamaican centenarian Violet Brown, aged 117, is now the oldest person […]

Source: The Washington Post / Getty With photos of Harriet Tubman being few and far between, when a rare new photo of her surfaced it was a huge deal. While most photos depict Tubman as […]