Answering the call of those locked up in Alabama and Texas prisons, incarcerated people in 40 prisons in 24 states…

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka have both…

I have no idea why these images, posted on Facebook eight months ago of Eric Owens and his son, are going viral now,…

Coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising and a national prison work strike to raise…

In her latest MTV Decoded video, Franchesca Ramsey, writer, actress and video blogger, gives a succinct and critical…

The majority of black millennials in the United States wanted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to be their next…

Updated Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, 5:30 p.m. EDT: In the wake of the brave and unrelenting actions of the Standing Rock…

Darren Seals, 29, a Ferguson, Mo., protester and activist who rose to prominence in the wake of the 2014…

Dr. Yaba Blay, a leading voice on beauty politics and the creator of Professional Black Girl, has been in the game…

Lena Dunham has apologized for racially charged statements she made about New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr.…

When I first saw San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick take a knee—joined by free safety Eric Reid—during…

Umi Selah, formerly known as Phillip Agnew, co-founder of the Dream Defenders, a civil rights organization formed in…

Sarah Haley, assistant professor of gender studies and African-American studies at UCLA; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,…

In about four minutes, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell reminded liberal white America that it has the blood of…

The 2016 election cycle always promised to have more questions than answers. Would expectations be higher or lower…

NFL Hall of Famer and former San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice wants everyone to know that "All lives matter," and he's…

Jackie Robinson, in his 1972 autobiography, I Never Had It Made, described the moment when he realized that he could…

Nykea Aldridge, 32, the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade, was shot and killed while pushing a child in a stroller on…

White Hollywood is nothing if not a microcosm of white America, a place where shucking and jiving, bucking and…

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