About Christina Coleman

You know that list of companies that are outspoken about gay marriage? The ones that tell gun advocates to put their firearms away when walking into their stores? The ones that pay your tuition and boast unity from their liberal boardrooms? Starbucks is that company. So it was only a matter of time before the inevitable came. […]

Police investigating a brutal brawl that occurred in a Brooklyn McDonald’s have arrested five teenagers in connection with the beating that left a 15-year-old girl with a concussion, contusions, and bruises. The attack, caught on camera and uploaded to Facebook, eventually went viral on the internet, catching the attention of law enforcement officers and a concerned […]

Police have identified and arrested a 16-year-old girl in connection with a massive brawl inside a Brooklyn-area McDonald’s, NBC reports. The brutal brawl, which left a teenager beaten and bruised, occurred in the McDonald’s on Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush. Witnesses claim there were up to 10 girls attacking the teen throughout the 3-minute fight, but authorities have […]

In Texas, it may soon be wise to put away your phone or recording devices when around police, unless you’re willing to risk arrest. It sounds like a clear violation of our constitutional rights, but a bill introduced to the Texas House of Representatives aims to make it illegal for private citizens to record police […]

Despite a damning Justice Department report that found African-Americans made up 93 percent of arrests even though they only represent 67 percent of the Ferguson, Mo. population, the mayor is claiming the city does not have a race problem. In an interview Friday, Mayor James Knowles III rejected the scathing 102-page report, claiming police department practices are […]

Entertainment website TMZ has posted a video that purportedly shows former Death Row CEO Marion “Suge” Knight’s January hit-and-run that left one man dead. The website says the video, made public early Monday, shows Knight’s red truck hitting one of the men, then circling back seconds later to run over the man again before speeding away. […]

It started with a simple question — “At what age did you feel like a woman?” The ages vary, the discernment different, but the answers, all given by influential black women, were laced with power, wisdom, femininity, sexuality, and confidence. All moving parts that embody the complexity of what it means to own womanhood. As part […]

During a recent radio interview, President Barack Obama made his first public remarks since the Justice Department released a damning report detailing the racist policing practices of Ferguson, Mo. officers and said what at least a swath of America is already thinking. Ferguson is not an anomaly. In the SiriusXM interview, set to air Friday, Obama told […]

UPDATED, 12:56 PM EST, 3-10-15: A Good Samaritan at New York’s Rikers Island prison was beaten up Thursday by other prisoners who were upset that he failed to credit them for also assisting a corrections officer who was being sexually assaulted by a convicted sex criminal, a jail source tells the New York Daily News. […]

During a Thursday press conference, Michael Brown‘s family attorneys announced they will file a civil lawsuit against the city of Ferguson following the Justice Department’s decision not to press charges against Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed their unarmed son. Wilson will be among those named in the suit, according to attorney Daryl […]