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Earlier this week, Marjorie Harvey posted a video on Instagram of her and Steve Harvey, slicing up fruits and veggies while making juice in their kitchen. Seems safe enough. However, in the clip, Marjorie uses the outdated pejorative often used to describe people with intellectual and mental disabilities.
Nearly four years after the Obama administration put rules in place for schools to look at alternatives to harsh punishments that were tougher on students of color, Black students continue to receive discipline more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, a new study says.
An online petition is circulating that seeks to have singer Chris Brown removed from the RCA label after a photo circulated on social media showing the singer with his hands wrapped around a woman’s neck.
In the half-century since Martin Luther King’s death, we’ve had a steady diet of history about this central figure in American human rights. But you also might wonder if there are things we don’t know. Here are five things that just might fit into that category.
Nearly two months after its release, according to Entertainment Weekly, Black Panther earned an astounding $652.5 million at the U.S. box office and more than $1.2 billion worldwide.
California congresswoman Maxine Waters shared the feeling of millions around the world following the death of Winnie Mandela on Monday.
The lawsuit was filed against the Census Bureau and Commerce Department to remove a new citizenship question which has not appeared on the Census since 1950 from appearing on the upcoming 2020 Census.
A grand jury in DeKalb County, Ga., just outside of Atlanta, has indicted a former police officer who is accused of working with area drug dealers to rip off their competitors.
The unlikely officer is now Sacramento’s first African-American police chief, on the job less than a year and at the center of the nation’s latest upheaval over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black man.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nixed his own deal Tuesday with the United Nations to resettle tens of thousands of African migrants in Israel and other Western nations, caving in to nationalist critics who have demonized the migrants for taking over poor neighborhoods in Tel Aviv.
eek after turning himself in, rapper Fabolous was formally charged with assaulting his longtime girlfriend, Emily Bustamante. Footage from the incident showed him threatening her father and brother.
Prior to Sunday’s game between the Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field, two elementary school students Seattle’s Mount View Elementary School who were singing the national anthem with a grade-school choir took a knee, likely inspired by Colin Kaepernick
Police in San Bruno, Calif. have surrounded YouTube’s headquarters as an apparent active shooter incident has sparked panic.
The redhead kid with the nickname Big Ragu came off the bench to score 31 points Monday and lift ‘Nova to another blowout tournament victory — this time 79-62 over Michigan for its second NCAA basketball title in three seasons.
The 25-year-old social studies teacher is out of a job after she submitted her resignation after it was discovered that she was hosting the aptly named podcast called “Unapologetic”
While Easter Sunday used to be known for the yearly presentation of the legendary film The Ten Commandments, NBC’s live version of the Broadway play Jesus Christ Superstar did big time numbers for the Peacock.
Philadelphia’s top cop says that more African-Americans are dying as a result of opioid overdoes than they are of homicides in the city and the numbers back it up.
After scrapping a plan to deport thousands of migrants from African nations, Israel Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended a deal with the United Nations to give those migrants residency in exchange for Western nations resettling the same number.
Silicon Valley tech giant Intel released its 2017 annual report on diversity last week and while the company is reportedly ahead of is ahead of its overall workforce goals, it’s still struggling to hire, retain, and promote Black talent.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Edward Van McCrae was in the backseat of a car when Officer D.E. McGuire, who has been with the department since 2015, pulled the car over just after 10:30 p.m. during a routine patrol, according to the Winston-Salem Police Department.