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Ahmed Mohamed, the Irving, Texas student who was detained after teachers mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has received support from all over the world. The MacArthur High School student was interrogated by police on Monday after he presented the homemade gadget to his teachers, who were consequently convinced it was a detonation device. Authorities were […]

ALFREDO ESTRELLA/Getty Images They say crime doesn’t pay, but over time, gangsters have proven otherwise. In the early part of the 20th century, a gangster’s profit was measured by how much liquor sales they acquired during prohibition. Since then, the narrative of gangsters transitioned into gambling and drug trafficking. In the seventies, gangsters made a […]

More proof that the state of emergency exists in the Black community? Check out the numbers in this week's The Retweet.

On Thursday afternoon, talented singer/songwriter Janelle Monae, her artist Jidenna, and her Wondaland collective, continued to stand with the “Black Lives Matter” movement this week during a march in New York City. The artists joined the Stop Mass Incarnation Network for a rally held in Times Square. Stop Mass has made their presence felt all over the country by speaking out […]

This year alone, 24 unarmed Black men have been shot and killed by the police, and college and university campuses aren’t any safer.

Editor’s note: This story first posted two years ago: The possibility of a fresh start worked the room, as dozens of job applicants waited to be interviewed. Their thoughts were private but their presence demonstrated a resilience no government statistic could quantify. Maybe they didn’t know Michael Brown personally, but they were all too familiar […]

https://twitter.com/pzoeller/status/622447786215243778/photo/1 When two hate groups took their place on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse earlier this month, words were exchanged between members of the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party. In an ironic moment of extremes demanding justice from one another, one image seemed to stick out from the rest. A Black activist […]

On the heels of Hurricane Katrina’s 10th anniversary, Soledad O’Brien held her 5th Annual Starfish Foundation Gala, the award-winning journalist’s initiative to mentor promising young women from the New Orleans area, give them monetary and emotional support, and foster opportunities for their success. The Foundation was created out of both passion and need. Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest natural […]

Engineer by training, artist from the heart. This is how Daniel Hibbert views his very intricate life. The Michigan native, Brooklyn-based artist held his first solo exhibition in New York this month called “Timeless,” a series of pieces that define the style, colors, and music of the past six decades through cubism. Held at Ludlow Studios […]

Creating a narrative for a young black queer children wasn’t hard for freelance writer turned author Myles Johnson. Pulling from his own life experiences, the Atlanta based writer along with illustrator Kendrick Daye helped bring to life the story of young Jeremiah Nebula — a kid getting ready for his trip to Mars — in […]