During a private conversation, Senator Frank Artiles of Miami targeted his racial and gender-based remarks at Senators Audrey Gibson and Perry Thurston who he was having drinks with at the Governor’s Club in Tallahassee. Artiles began his rant by suggesting...
On Thursday, a team of archaeologists discovered a 8 meter, 3,000-year-old statue thought to depict Ramses II from Matariya, greater Cairo. Matariya was once known as Heliopolis and was the cult center for the sun god. The dig began in 2012 with a German-Egyptian team...
The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers...
The NAACP of Portland announced they have removed their endorsement of the Women’s March on Portland, an anti-Trump protest which was scheduled for Jan. 21. The reasoning behind this is because Jo Ann Hardesty, president of the NAACP, seen that the original...
On Tuesday, twelve jurors held the life of Dylan Roof, 22, in their hands. In 2015, Roof killed 9 African-Americans in a historically black church in South Carolina, known as the Charleston Church Massacre. Roof served as his own attorney, stating earlier that he did...
Dr. Candice Bridge, who is the first African-American Chemistry professor at the University of Central Florida, just received a $324,000 grant to study rape-investigation methods. The grant, given by the National Institute of Justice, will grant Bridge access to tools...
On August 10, at 2:30 a.m., Jason Stokes’ Endicott home went into flames while his wife and two daughters were sleeping. Luckily, the four people were in the home (including Stokes) left without injuries. It was said that the family was being targeted by black...
Community members of Blevins, Arkansas are appalled and outraged after photographs of a white school board member dressed in blackface went viral. The Blevins school board member has been identified as Ted Bonner. The photos, which were apparently taken a few weeks...
There has been a belief that black students aren’t being treated as they should by their teachers and were punished way too many times. However, a new study shows that there is, in fact, a correlation between black children being suspended by their non-black...
On Saturday, a video was allegedly posted, by the fraternity Alpha Tau Omega, using racial slurs throughout a clip from the move, ‘A Bug’s Life’. The video ended with an Anonymous-like broadcast calling for the lynchings and beatings of...
