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After Joshua Brown was killed, one question came pouring from every corner of the nation: “Who did it?” 

Since he first announced his campaign for President, Joe Biden has been the front-runner. This has been especially true among Black Americans - but that may be changing! Elizabeth Warren has steadily been gaining ground in major polls.

Every 10 years, the United States conducts a national Census - an attempt to count every person in America. Getting an accurate, comprehensive Census count is a crucially important aspect of American domestic policy, because it determines so many things: state budgets, representation in congress, school funding, and much more.

Some states switched up after the 2010 census. They decided to start counting prisoners based on their home communities, and not the prisons where they reside. The controversy over this makes it clear why our participation in the census is so important!

According to analysis from Stateline.org, “Many inmates hail from neighborhoods in or near cities, but most are incarcerated in small towns and rural areas.” This means that counting inmates in prisons could shift power to rural areas, whereas not doing so emphasizes cities.  

Every parent wants to raise intelligent self-aware children. 

But Black parents, in particular, struggle to find age-appropriate ways to discuss things like police brutality, loving your dark skin and gravity-defying curls, and even which college will support their child best. Thankfully, these five books can help. 

When Russia’s interference with the 2016 United States presidential election was investigated by the U.S. government and Facebook, they discovered something alarming.

Accounts disguised as Black people were being dispatched across social media to target YOU.

These imposter bots posed as political influencers to persuade Black voters to GIVE UP their collective power as a key voting bloc that could determine the fate of the nation. 

It seemed like his life was over. Isaac Wright, Jr. was facing life in prison and the testimony of multiple police officers and witnesses.

But he wasn’t a “drug kingpin,” as they claimed. He was innocent. And he’d fight to prove it.

Wright was sentenced to life. But he used his time in prison to study law, and ended up getting overturned convictions or reduced sentences for TWENTY of his peers.

After years of study, however, he was ready to take on the biggest case of all: his own.

When Kimberlé Crenshaw blessed the world with the theory of “intersectionality” in 1989, it upset white people - and earned a collective sigh of relief and appreciation from people of color everywhere.

There was finally a term to describe the ways that, for example, not all women experience womanhood or sexism in the same way! Black women face a specific intersection of womanhood AND Blackness that mainstream feminism has always ignored.  

Alabama is known for its history of racist state violence. From police siccing dogs on children marching for civil rights to contemporary Republicans practicing racist gerrymandering, it’s no surprise that CHURCHES are in on the bigotry, too.

But one specific church is getting its own police force - and this spells danger.

Governor Kay Ivey, a woman who wore blackface in her youth, passed the law allowing Briarwood Presbyterian Church (BPC) to hire its own police force. And we condemn this move for one dangerous reason...

When Dnigma Howard was attacked, she was at a place you expect children to be safe: school. She wasn’t assaulted by an intruder, a teacher, or even another student. It was a cop! 

Luckily, this unjustifiable crime was caught on tape. 

As depicted in video footage, Dnigma, a special needs student at Marshall High, was grabbed by a school officer unprovoked. He then proceeded to shove her toward a flight of stairs, stairs he then DRAGGED her down by her legs. From there, things only got worse.