A Catholic elementary school in California kicked a black child out of kindergarten for his haircut — even though its length and style were not different than those of many of his white classmates, the San Mercury News reports. On December 17 of last year, a teacher...

Back in 2008, a heartbreaking story about little Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old South Carolina boy, made headlines after he died more than an hour after leaving a community pool. “I’ve never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with...

Google has apologized after its photo application confused black people with gorillas. Over the weekend programmer Jacky Alciné tweeted a screenshot of photos he’d uploaded in which the app had labeled Alcine and a friend, both African American, as “gorillas.” “Google...

While most black pundits were getting ready for their close-up so they could denounce the Confederate flag on national television, President Obama was signing a bill giving himself fast track authority on a trade deal that not only erodes American sovereignty, but is...

There have been at least seven fires at black churches in states spanning from Ohio to Georgia. At least three have already been confirmed as arson.  While we’re not seeing much in the way of arrests in those cases, police in Colorado did arrest a black man for...

Every now and again, I come across a product or service that completely blows my mind. This week, I was introduced to a phone case shaped like a gun and thought, "who thought this would be a good idea for a product?" Then I thought, "must be a white person." I say...