https://twitter.com/nymagPR/status/625472233469833216 Just days after Spelman College cut ties with Bill Cosby amid rising allegations of rape and sexual assault, 35 accusers of the fallen entertainer are featured in a powerful New York Magazine cover story that was unveiled Sunday night on Twitter. Since then, the magazine’s online site was hacked by a man who claims […]
USA Today has reported that at least 70,000 rape kits have gone untested across the country from over 1,000 various testing agencies. Taking into account that the documented agencies only take up a portion of the 18,000 police departments in the country, the amount of the unaccounted for rape kits rose to over 100,000. The kits […]
If the McKinney, Texas pool party incident woke America out of a historic and deliberate slumber that ignores systemic racism, we
Hundreds of women and children rescued from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram are now in military custody, the BBC reports. The Nigerian army has relocated at least 260 survivors and transported them from a camp in north-eastern Yola to a military facility, the site writes. The location of the facility has not been released. The […]
A major move to broaden birth control options for women in the military is taking shape in both houses of Congress as they move forward to make contraceptives accessible on a larger scale, the New York Times reports. An annual defense policy bill says women should “have access to a sufficient supply” of birth control during […]
RAW VIDEO: #Denver cop uses “inappropriate force,” pins woman’s neck with his knee in a jail cell: http://t.co/vp2aAv7hZB via @DPTV — Daniel Boniface (@danielboniface) March 11, 2015 The Denver Police Department has terminated an officer for using excessive force during an arrest last year. According to the Daily Mail, Officer James Medina was fired last Wednesday […]
Three African American women are taking legal action against the NYPD for falsely accusing them of stealing a credit card and placing them in jail. In an interview with the NY Daily News, Kimmell McIntosh and her cousins Melanie and Maxine Henry were enjoying a girls day at a Massage Envy in Brooklyn when they were […]
Angelia Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha Ball,18, were found dead and bound together along a road in Jacksonville, Florida Thursday. Local news source WJXT has the story: Investigators are trying to determine a cause of death and do suspect foul play. Waters also told WJXT, “They were in an area where they would have been noticed, […]
Another day, another study on dating and marriage for black women. The latest wave of research has come from online dating sites, which has analyzed the dating habits and behaviors of folks on some of the most popular sites. Well, eHarmony recently released data that reveals something new about the dating behavior of black women: They […]
According to Mayo Clinic, as many as 3 out of 4 women have uterine fibroids sometime during their lives, but most are unaware of them because they often cause no symptoms. Your doctor may discover fibroids incidentally during a pelvic exam or prenatal ultrasound. However, for many women, their fibroids can major cause of problems […]
If you’re looking for people of color in your summer sci-fi blockbuster, you’ll be waiting for a long time. A new infographic form Lee & Low Books details just how lacking fantasy films are in the diversity department: only 14 percent of movies feature a female protagonist and only 8 percent feature a protagonist of […]
Researchers are now discovering how people of color and women are often penalized at work for promoting others like themselves. In a time where many companies claim to value racial and gender diversity, researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Colorado, Boulder have found that women and people of color – often minorities […]
