Civil Rights & Social Justice

The clock is ticking for borrowers around the country. Restarting student loan payments amid recent price increases would not only be shortsighted politically, but it could also push more people into financial ruin. 

Race Matters

Michael Hosinski was granted early retirement despite video footage showing him chasing after a student, grabbing the student by the backpack, hitting him in the face and slamming him into a wall at Jimtown High School in Elkhart, Indiana.

Race Matters

We can't just sit back and let the caucasified youth end up like this. Something has to be done for their own good and for the good of humanity. Also, so Black people don't end up getting arrested or worse for f***ing them up.

Video of the disturbing event circulated on social media shows Melissa Carter, head of Central Elementary School in Clewiston, bending a child over and hitting her with a wooden paddle on April 13.

Good News

For the first time in its 182-year history, Duke University has named a campus building after a trailblazing Black woman.

Nation

A parent is infuriated by the incident caught on video.

The incident occurred Saturday around 1 p.m. when police responded to a call that Dyzhawn Perkins, 19, was behaving erratically at a local grocery store and later attacked an elderly couple who lived nearby, WTVR reports. When two Buckingham County police officers later found Perkins at a nearby home, he reportedly jumped through a plate-glass window and allegedly attacked one of the officers.

An eighth-grader was reduced to tears and utter embarrassment last week when she was sent to the principal’s office for simply wearing her natural hair. According to The Huffington Post, the Black student who wished to remain unidentified, says she was pulled from class after wearing her hair in a crochet braided style. She was sent […]

Resource officers are commonly trained by police, with each department setting their own standards of force towards students.

The Justice Department is set to open a federal civil rights investigation following the emergence of a now-viral video showing a school resource officer slamming and dragging a Black female student across the classroom.

Video footage of a South Carolina police officer picking up, throwing, and dragging a student while inside a classroom surfaced online Monday afternoon.

A school is defending the suspension of a 12-year-old Black student who allegedly "intimidated" a White student during a staring contest.