Protesters Get in Formation to Topple Confederate Statue
In response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, a diverse group of anti-racist protesters went full-on Bree Newsome and took it upon themselves to [...]
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The First Mass March for Black Lives Went Down 100 Years Ago
Racially motivated murders of Black people is a legacy that’s been passed down for decades in this country. And while there were no hashtags for Jesse Washington (a [...]
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Power: Why Boycotting Actually Works
As Beyoncé says, “Best revenge is yo’ paper.” And Black girls like you have the power to spur change by kicking businesses that support racism and bigotry where it [...]
Bethune-Cookman Grads Keep it 100: They Are Not Here for Devos at Their Commencement
Oh, Becky. (Oops, Betsy.) The Bethune-Cookman class of 2017 did not come to play with you. They did not come to the Ocean Center Daytona Beach to listen to empty platitudes [...]
9 Things to Get Poppin’ Now That It’s (Finally) Spring
By Ayanna Thompson After months of frigid weather and heavy layers, spring has finally decided to come through. In honor of the season’s debut, we’re bringing [...]
10 Black and Latinx Teens Went Missing in D.C. and Barely Anyone Noticed
Natalee Holloway. Amber Hagerman. Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Chandra Levy. JonBenet Ramsey… We all know their names. We all know they went missing. In fact, entire [...]
Meet Us at the March. It’s Goin’ Down.
It’s goin’ down in eight days. The day after inauguration, Saturday, Jan. 21, hundreds of thousands of people will converge on our nation’s capital to [...]
The Republicans’ War on Women Still Rages
Let’s keep things all the way 100. What went down on the hill today (Jan. 5) was a straight up attack on women’s health and reproductive rights. House Speaker [...]
White Supremacists Plot to Infiltrate Black Twitter and Fail Miserably
*Note: There is some offensive language (shown in white supremacists’ tweets) in the post below. In the latest edition of Somebody Needs to Get Their Life, white [...]
Donald Trump Claims the Black Vote Helped Him Win
Not only has President-elect Donald Trump encouraged Russian hackers, disseminated fake news, and named Stephen Bannon (an unapologetic racist and anti-Semite who ran [...]
