This 21-year-old Black man is shaking up Denver’s school system with his recent School Board election win! Here’s what you need to know about Tay Anderson:
Anderson was student body president at Manual High School.
Doug Evans is a Mississippi-based district attorney who’s been cast under a spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now, he’s going to court, and this time, he’s the one in the hot seat.
The NAACP is suing him for how he’s treated Black jurors, and his actions have caused many to ask, “How has this man kept his job for over TWO DECADES?” Well...
New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) says it has a problem: people not paying their bus and/or subway fares.
They’ve sent out hundreds of police to subway stations, and even installed surveillance cameras. The real problem they have, though? Racism.
The Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma held a thriving self-sufficient community known as Black Wall Street.
Out of jealousy, a mob of Ku Klux Klan members burned every establishment to the ground, terrorized inhabitants, and killed hundreds.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre traumatized generations, yet many Americans still have no clue such a devastating act of racial violence ever occurred.
On November 8th and 9th, 2019, hundreds of Black Americans, dressed in period clothing and carrying clubs and guns, took over a plantation and killed the slave master running it.
It was all just a performance, recreating an 1811 slave uprising. But the visual is still arresting. “It brings you back to that trauma,” said one participant.
Donald Trump has been friendly with white supremacists since day one. Now, there’s more coming out about just how deep his ties to white nationalism are. And this time it’s thanks to leaked emails.
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller sent emails with links to white supremacist articles and praised racist policies HUNDREDS of times.
Nikkolas Smith is no stranger to virality. His image of Martin Luther King, Jr. in a hoodie blew up online after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Recently, his lovely, bittersweet digital painting of Atatiana Jefferson playing video games with her nephew in the moments before her death has also gone viral.
College Board, the organization responsible for administering the SAT, has it made.
Their tests are internationally recognized as the primary proving ground for young students eager to earn a spot in a top school’s freshman class. The problem is, those schools don’t actually want them…
1. “Mental health is only a concern for white people.”
In 1848, a white doctor named John Galt claimed that “blacks are immune to mental illness,” because they had no property or money to stress them out.
History and data has proven that it’s not true, and in fact racism and poverty are huge contributors to mental distress, which makes us even more susceptible to illnesses like depression.
2. “Mental illness is a new thing.”
In 1978, Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt joined the Black Panthers, and rose up the ranks to lead the Los Angeles chapter.
But because he was a “powerful leader,” he was targeted - an FBI informant within the Panthers eventually took him down.
When a SWAT team raided Pratt’s home late one night, they had every intention of assassinating him. Their vile plan failed.