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Cheirha Rankins says she couldn't see her 18-year-old son because the hospital was on lockdown.

Darren Martin worked at the White House for the Obama Administration. This is how his new neighbors treated him.

Black Girl Magic continues to flow all across the United States and this time, it’s in North Carolina where one high school teenager got accepted to 113 colleges, according to Blavity. Jasmine Harrison, 17, a senior at The Academy was accepted to over 100 schools across the country with a scholarship amount of $4 million! The 4.0 student is […]

Instead of a long and drawn-out legal battle, the men at the center of the Philadelphia Starbucks arrest incident have taken an incredibly low settlement from the city with a perk that speaks to their interests. Taking $1 dollar settlements each, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson will help spearhead a $200,000 grant program designed to aid […]

For well over a century, the Boy Scouts of America has been the leader in the stateside scouting movement, but until last year only boys could join its ranks. To reflect its embrace of inclusion, the organization will drop “boy” from its name and will now be known as Scouts BSA. CNN reports: Less than […]

A federal grand jury indicted 57 members of violent White supremacist gangs with drug trafficking and kidnapping charges.

In a statement released this week, the 12 men and women stressed that "were persuaded of his guilt by the facts."

The cast of A Different World have come together to raise $360k in grants to award to nine HBCU’s. Jasmine Guy, Cree Summer, Kadeem Harrison and Darryl M. Bell teamed up with The Home Depot to announce the recipients of the “Retool Your School” grant, according to Blavity. The grant allows colleges and universities to use the money to make […]

Another charge and this cop has not spent one day behind bars.