PoliticsPoliticsThe Black Person’s Guide to the Trump Impeachment HearingsThe House of Representatives began impeachment hearings for President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday. While everyone…ByMichael HarriotPublishedNovember 13, 2019
NewsNewsBlack Health Advocates Want US Government to Take on Menthols As Hard As It’s Taken on Other Flavored TobaccoAfrican American health advocates are taking aim at the Trump administration’s decision to go after flavored…ByDara SharifPublishedNovember 1, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsDemocratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional SeatMaya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th…ByDara SharifPublishedNovember 1, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsBeto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval OfficeFormer Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on Friday took himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential…ByDara SharifPublishedNovember 1, 2019
NewsEducationNewsEducationGeorgetown Sets Goal to Raise $400,000 to Fund Reparations for Descendants of Those It Enslaved, but Effort’s Getting the Side Eye From Student ActivistsWhen Georgetown University students voted this spring to use student fees to pay reparations to descendants of the en…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 31, 2019
CultureCultureRussian Operatives Are Apparently Taking Their Disinformation Campaign on the Road—Moving From African Americans to the African ContinentThe Russians targeted African Americans in the run-up to election 2016 with deceptive social media accounts and…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 31, 2019
PoliticsLGBTQPoliticsLGBTQNot Only Does Facial Recognition Software Often Get Racial ID Wrong, a New Study Finds It Misgenders Trans and Nonbinary Folks Almost All the TimeNonbinary and transgender identities are increasingly being accepted and normalized throughout society, but not when…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 30, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsIlhan Omar Draws Fire for Opting Out of House Vote to Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide—and Rile TurkeyRep. Ilhan Omar is drawing fire for basically abstaining on a House vote taken to formally acknowledge, for the…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 30, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsBarack Obama Calls Out ‘Cancel Culture’ in the Era of Donald TrumpFor all eight years of his presidency, Barack Obama was the epitome of class and grace, ever speaking to how to…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 30, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsIrony: Harris, Booker and Castro Face Uphill Battle in Race for the Democratic Nod for President Despite a Diverse FieldDespite fielding one of the most diverse groups of presidential candidates, based on most recent poll numbers, the…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 29, 2019
NewsEducationNewsEducationDetroit Students Are Making a Federal Case Out of What They Say Was an Education So Poor, It Violated Their Constitutional RightsAn eighth-grader teaching his fellow students math for a month when the teacher quit. Third- and fourth-grade…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 29, 2019
CultureSportsCultureSportsNCAA Opens Door to College Athletes Being Able to Make Their Own Coins Off Their Own Names and ImagesThe NCAA on Tuesday opened the door to college athletes being able to profit from their own names and likenesses,…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 29, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsDonald Trump Takes His ‘Buffoonery’ on the Road, Trashing Chicago and Its Top Cop in Speech Before Law Enforcement GroupAs he has a tendency to do—especially when it comes to black or brown strongholds, from San Juan to Baltimore—Donald…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 28, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsIt’s About to Get Really Real: House to Take Formal Vote Thursday on Rules of ImpeachmentHouse Democrats want to make one thing very clear to Donald Trump: The impeachment inquiry into his tenure in the…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 28, 2019
NewsCriminal JusticeNewsCriminal JusticeExonerated Five Fighting to Stop Cops From Lying, Using Innocent People’s DNA and Other Things You Probably Thought Were Already IllegalInnocent until proven guilty is one of the foundational tenets of American jurisprudence. Even when a person is…ByMichael HarriotPublishedOctober 28, 2019
PoliticsPoliticsThe Man Who Dissed Mitch McConnell Says It Had Nothing to Do With Elijah Cummings. The Untold Backstory Is Even WorseSenate Majority Leader and Zombie Voldemort, Mitch McConnell, went viral this weekend after a close friend of…ByMichael HarriotPublishedOctober 28, 2019
NewsNewsLongest Serving Black Congressman John Conyers Jr. Passes Away at 90John Conyers—the longest-serving black congressman in U.S. history—has passed away.ByKaru F. DanielsPublishedOctober 27, 2019
NewsNewsTrump Organization Is Thinking of Selling the Lease to Its Controversial DC HotelAmid criticism that Donald Trump has been wrongly profiting from his swank Washington, D.C., hotel, the Trump…ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 26, 2019
NewsNewsAwkward! Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Spills the Tea After Butt-Dialing a ReporterMaybe Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani needs to learn how to lock his phone.ByDara SharifPublishedOctober 25, 2019
NewsNewsA Video in Which Matt Gaetz, a White Man, Whines About Being Called a White ManMerriam Webster defines “identity politics” as: ByMichael HarriotPublishedOctober 25, 2019