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The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) has received a $400,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to rollout their COVID-19 campaign to improve vaccination rates within the Black community. As part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s $20 million Equity-First Vaccination Initiative, the grant will aid BWHI’s current mission to increase access to …

Photo: Alex_Alekseev (Shutterstock) Clarence Green was driving in his car on New Year’s Day last year when he was pulled over by a police officer in Baton Rouge, La. The ensuing traffic stop was anything but routine as the officer proceeded to publicly strip search Green and his 16-year-old brother. …

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There were severe “political inaccuracies” founded in a middle school yearbook for the class 2020-2021 that the principal had to issue an apology to parents and students. Lincoln Junior High School in Bentonville, Ark. must have a Republican editor on the helms of it yearbook because the way the book …

Photo: MemoryMan (Shutterstock) I really don’t fuck with Texas politicians, y’all. These motherfuckers really never miss an opportunity to be dumb, cruel, or just flat-out trash. A group of prisoners in the state filed a lawsuit last year to have hand sanitizer, soap, and proper social distancing measures implemented in …

Prisco Serrano: I met Donna around 1990. I was in 11th grade, and I was a writer for the youth newspaper. I saw L.A. Youth as a way of rebelling, because I thought that it was a way of me saying what I wanted to say. I thought journalists were, …

To commemorate the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — a tragedy that sparked a global reckoning over racism and police brutality — BET dedicated the week to honoring Floyd’s memory and examining ways that the country has changed as …

“There’s an app for that,” is a statement that can be applied to almost everything. There is a deluge of apps on the market, each one catering to a specific function, but that shouldn’t hinder you from breathing life into your brilliant idea. There is always going to be a space for …

Image: Eakin Press, Jenkin Lloyd-Jones Press, Trinity University Press For the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the New York Times has released an interactive experience, What the Tulsa Massacre Destroyed, that takes viewers through the streets of a digitally created and historically accurate Greenwood neighborhood, demonstrating the destruction …