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Another Black male was discovered hanging from a tree in a park in Morristown, NJ, and his death has been ruled a suicide, raising questions in the community. Hangings—long a symbol of racial terror against Blacks by whites—have been rising in cities across the nation amid protests over police-related killings …

Screenshot: @CBSNews (Twitter Four Aurora Police Department officers are now out of a job following an investigation into photos they took of themselves at the site where 23-year-old Elijah McClain was put in a chokehold by police before dying last summer. The photos show Kyle Dittrich, Jared Jones, and Erica …

A North Carolina woman has been evicted from her Fayetteville apartment after she was caught on video yelling racial slurs at a Fort Bragg soldier. Diamonte Ugbesia was visiting a friend at Kings Cross Apartments on June 26, when he heard a woman yelling racial slurs from a neighboring building …

Share0 Image via Bombay Sapphire Since the start of the protests sparked by the viral video of a police officer suffocating George Floyd, corporations and public figures have been more public with their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and have been pressured by consumers to work toward social …

What would summer be without the perfect swimsuit? Plus size swimwear has come a long way in the last five years and the options are abundant. I can’t help myself, when there is a good sale, I always look at the swimsuits first! This week there is a load of …

Photography by Caroline Tompkins Image above: Marielle Brenner, age 25, in the living room of her parents’ house in Melville, New York, in June. She moved back in with them after the economic fallout from the pandemic made her rent in Chicago unaffordable. For the most part, the pandemic has …

Black alums of the popular reality television show Survivor are airing out the truth behind the long-running series. In an interview with NPR, the first Black woman to ever compete on the show in 2000, Ramona Gray Amaro, claimed the final production footage was edited to make her appear one …

On Saturday, June 27, 8-year-old Nolan Davis led demonstrators from a park in his hometown of Kirkwood, Missouri to the city center in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. But they were not the unusual demonstrators—they were hundreds of children. Nolan helped organize the protest along with his …

Photo: Rick Diamond (Getty Images) Former long-shot presidential candidate and Tea Party darling Herman Cain is now in the hospital being treated for COVID-19, just a little over a week after he attended a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma when coronavirus cases there had spiked to their highest numbers …

Feeling wary of celebration? The American revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance. A history professor looks deeply at the lesser-known closing sentence of the Declaration of Independence—words that speak to hard truths about …