There was little violence after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin‘s killer last July. Peace prevailed when at least four other unarmed black males were killed by police in recent months, from New York to Los Angeles. Then Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri. And waves of rioting have convulsed the St. Louis suburb […]

The vocal and controversial filmmaker Spike Lee (pictured) recently told CNN’s Anderson Cooper (pictured) that the violence against Black America — along with high-profile examples such as the Michael Brown execution at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson — is destroying this country. RELATED: Kansas City Cop Under Review For Posting Fake Picture Of Mike Brown Lee, […]

Tatsha Robertson (pictured), the only African American senior editor at People magazine, was fired back in May.  Now, in a recently filed lawsuit, the journalist is claiming that the long-established, New York City-based Time Inc. brand engaged in on-the-job discrimination and general racial bias towards Blacks, reports the New York Daily News. According to Robertson, out of […]

A firearms charge resulted in roughneck Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane (pictured) receiving a sentence of 39 months in prison and a travel restriction, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). SEE ALSO: Woman Files For Maternity Of Beyonce And Jay-Z’s Baby Mane, who was already a convicted felon and whose actual name is Radric Davis, took a […]

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New York City residents converged on the Lower East Side Wednesday night for the #HandsUp, #TurnUp march to honor Michael Brown and decry police brutality. RELATED: Attorney General Arrives In Ferguson A contingency of protestors coming from an earlier Palestine rally stormed in to Sara D. Roosevelt Park around 9 p.m., chanting, “Please don’t shoot me […]