Amazon Workers Walk Out To Protest Working Conditions, Unequal Pay
The strike has been extended from one day to two—July 15 through July 16—with workers organizing around the slogan, “No more discount on our incomes.”
Sons Give Mother’s Killer Beat Down During Sentencing Hearing
Anthony Dees, 30, and Jerome Stewart Jr., 23, were charged with assault and contempt of court after running through police officers and jumping over tables to knock the smile off of the face of their mother's killer.
Opinion: Ocasio-Cortez Makes It Plain: Pelosi Is Being 'Outright Disrespectful' To 'Newly Elected Women Of Color'
Powerful White women have always played this game when their power is threatened by smarter Black women and other indigenous women of color.
New Orleans Floods, Braces For Tropical Storm To Make Landfall As Hurricane Barry
If Tropical Storm Barry is upgraded, it would be the first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season.
Danielle Metz, Woman Granted Clemency By President Obama, Speaks At 2019 Essence Festival
Danielle Metz, 50, was locked in a cage and sentenced to die in prison; instead, she’s free and maintaining a 3.75 GPA at Southern University of New Orleans.
'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics' Authors Drop Knowledge On 2019 Essence Festival Power Stage
Moderated by Rev. Al Sharpton, the prestigious panel touched on issues ranging from diversity in the Democratic Party to the critical need for grassroots political organizing.
Beto O'Rourke Speaks On The Voting Power Of Black Women At Essence Festival
Beto may have joked about his flight to the 2019 Essence Festival, but when it came to touting his committment to Black women in leadership, he was very serious.
Cory Booker Makes Heartfelt Pitch To Black Women On 2019 Essence Festival Power Stage
Democratic presidental candidate Sen. Cory Booker was clearly on a mission—to gain the trust and earn the votes of Black American women.
White People Claiming Cherokee Nation Membership Awarded $300 Million In Government Contracts
An investigative report found that White people have invented a new way to milk a system already created for their success. They are claiming indigenous heritage to qualify for federal benefits.
Centrist Dems, GOP Partner To Pass Emergency Border Fund Bill That Leaves Progressives Outraged, Worried
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was a “lioness” for children in concentration camps at the U.S. - Mexico border, but GOP and centrist Democrats managed to tame her pretty quickly.
Identical Twins At Chicago Academy Graduate As Co-Valedictorians
Tia and Tyra Smith will both major in theater at their respective universities.
U.S. Psychoanalysts Apologize For Labeling Homosexuality A Psychological Disorder
This is the first time that a mental health organization in the United States has issued an apology for this kind of institutional cis-hetero violence.
SCOTUS Strikes Down Murder Conviction Of Mississippi Black Man, Finding Racial Bias In Jury Selection
Curtis Flowers has spent 22 years on death row in Mississippi. His case has been returned to state court.
Cory Booker Declines To Apologize For Calling Joe Biden Out On Segregationist Senators Remarks
Former Vice-President Joe Biden is taking a lot of heat from colleagues in the wake of his remarks about segregationist southern senators.
Op-ed: Joe Biden Is The White Moderate Dr. King Warned Us About
Joe Biden, former U.S. Vice-President, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, shared fond memories Tuesday night of James O. Eastland, the white supremacist Mississippi senator known as “The Voice of the White South,” calling him “son.”
Donald Trump Refuses To Apologize To Exonerated Five
Trump is still unrepentant and unapologetically loud, wrong and racist.
Phoenix Police Under Fire After Officers Assault Baby, Threaten To Shoot Father ‘In The F—king Head’
Witnesses captured video of several Phoenix police officers, apparently drunk on power, screaming, cursing, and threatening to shoot a Black family.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Out As White House Press Secretary
President Donald Trump praised Sanders, who will leave her position at the end of the month, calling her a "warrior" and a "special person."
Elizabeth Warren Pulls Ahead Of Bernie Sanders In New Poll
While these numbers shouldn’t be overinterpreted at this stage, they do align with an increase in (social) media buzz around the Massachusetts senator.