The current Republican front-runner didn't spare any of the candidates during his live tweets on Hillary Clinton's credibility, Bernie Sanders' views on gun laws, and more. He also found ways to brand himself by retweeting supporters who literally watched his tweets instead of the actual debate on CNN.
George Zimmerman says he didn't knowingly tweet a photo of Trayvon Martin's body.
UPDATED: Monday, October 5, 2015 12:00 PM ET According to the AtlantaBlackStar, the man known as Geris Hilton (real name Gerod Roth) on Facebook has been terminated from his position at Polaris Marketing Group after a picture he posted on his page spurred hurtful and racially-charged comments about a co-workers Black child. The company released […]
Gil Scott Heron said in a 1970 poem, “the revolution will not be televised,” explaining in an interview years later that he meant change can’t be captured on film. In the poem, Heron says, “you will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out,” pointing to a movement where people have to […]
Hate and racism come in all shapes and sizes. After Viola Davis won the Emmy for her role as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder last night, she was bombarded with love, but from others, the reaction was not as rosy. Viola used her platform to let people know that after 67 years […]
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is taking his powerful message to the Ivy League this fall. Yale Divinity School announced this weekend that he will participate in their leadership program, serving as one of three lecturers as part of a $120,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, according to a press release. The activist, who has […]
A Black female banker is coming forward after she was forced to spend over a week in a psychiatric ward — all because police officers didn’t believe she was the owner of a BMW. In an investigative report by New York’s Pix11, Kamilah Brock says the incident began when she was driving through Harlem on Sept. […]
In an intense match against Roberta Vinci, Serena Williams was forced to end her Grand Slam bid just two matches shy of Saturday's final.
Carlos Anthony Hollins was arrested for sending out a tweet threatening to kill all of the White people in his town of La Plata, Maryland.
Howard University students took to Twitter to express their reported constant struggle with administration, dorm life, and financial aid.
In an age when social media activism has spurred significant change and sparked awareness about structural racism, police brutality, and injustices across the world, it’s easy to imagine that historic incidents such as the 1965 Watts Riots would be widely documented and shared throughout the internet. While it isn’t immediately clear what impact that visibility […]
During a Sunday interview with ABC News, presidential candidate Donald Trump defended comments he made about Barack Obama, concluding that America will not see a Black president for quite some time due to the legacy the current Commander-In-Chief has left behind. The comments came after Trump, who has been in the news lately for disparaging […]
