By: Breanna Edwards Protesters rally against police brutality at City Hall Park, Aug. 1, 2016, in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images An increasing number of white youth are expressing support…
By Dave Zirin San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick answers questions at a news conference on Friday, August 26, 2016. (AP Photo / Ben Margot) There has been a lot of…
By Nabeela Zahir Black Lives Matter France movement has gained momentum over the past months [Courtesy of collectif des Associations Unies Solitaires pour l’Afrique et sa Renaissance] Paris, France – Young…
The Epidemic of Violence and Fratricide in Chicago and America’s Dark Ghettos The tragic death of Nykea Aldridge, the cousin of basketball star Dwayne Wade, has once again called the…
By: Stephen A. Crockett Jr. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers during a game Jan. 19, 2014, in Seattle Ronald Martinez/Getty Images On Friday, Colin Kaepernick took a stand…
The month of August is a special month rich with history and initiatives of revolt, resistance and righteous struggle. It is the month of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution…
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference took on a new challenge: expose and overcome racial discrimination in Chicago. Here, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter…
By: T.D. Williams Professional football player Richard Sherman attends The Players’ Tribune Summer Party at No Vacancy on July 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Rich Polk/Getty Images for…
The year 1965 began on an ominous and unsettling note—the assassination and martyrdom of Malcolm X, the Fire Prophet. Even in the white and winter cold of February, it was…
My first lesson in the workings of the Baltimore Police Department was received as a college student. While living in West Baltimore, in the heart of the ‘hood,’ young Black…
By Eric M. Johnson (Reuters, August 1, 2016) Policemen walk on the sidelines as protesters hold a sign which states “Black Lives Matter,” during a march against police brutality in Manhattan,…
By: David Malebranche Dear President Obama: As a black man, I have cried more times than I care to admit in the past week, particularly after hearing the audiotape of Diamond Reynolds’…