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Zack Linly is a writer, journalist, poet and artist. Formerly a freelance writer for The Root, The Washington Post, HuffPost and other publications, he joined the iOne team in 2021 as a staff writer for NewsOne, Bossip, Hip Hop Wired, Cassius Life and MadameNoire, where he covers topics including politics, social justice and Black culture.

An attorney for Shiloh Hendrix argued that her use of the n-word was wrong, but not illegal, and said jurors shouldn't consider the child's autism, as it was only meant to draw their sympathy.

Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino is being urged to resign after he spewed racist stereotypes about Black people in an interview where he was asked about racial profiling.

Da’Jon Anthony Hayes-Burr, 15, was honored in April after he was stabbed while protecting a 12-year-old girl who was being sexually harassed by a grown man.

In a 51-to-47 vote that fell along party lines, the Senate confirmed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton as the new intelligence director.

In 2015, Davis, who worked as a county clerk in Eastern Kentucky at the time, made national headlines for ignoring the SCOTUS decision and refusing to issue licenses to gay couples.

Beshear's sternly worded letter might appear to show that he has taken the gloves off, those gloves are still on snug, as Beshear, like the rest of his party, is still playing nice.

An appellate court rejected Trump's request last September, yet his attorneys are relying on the same argument to try and sway the Supreme Court.

Dream Defenders is a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism and imperialism.

Several news outlets are reporting that Wells, 18, had been "drinking heavily" prior to his death, according to witnesses, and for many of our Caucasian counterparts, that's all they needed to hear.

Mitch McConnell released a second "proof-of-life" photo that is as baffling as the first, and no one believes he is still alive.

Tuskegee's new dress code policy is part of a larger policy that, to its credit, does have practical applications as well.

When Juliana Nzita was found hanging from a tree in Charlotte, North Carolina in early May, police were quick to rule her death a suicide.