by October Gallery
The Department of Education received more than 200 civil rights complaints last year involving students who say they were victims of racist school discipline, HuffPost has learned ― a noteworthy…
When Lena Waithe arrived at the Met Gala wearing a floor-length rainbow-colored cape in May, she was hailed as a “queer superhero.” Now, it’s been made official. The screenwriter, producer…
Brandon Wolf is one of a group of survivors who made it out of Pulse nightclub alive in the early hours of July 12, 2016. His best friend, Christopher Leinonen,…
June 12 marks the 51st anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared all laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional. In 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman,…
Jada Pinkett Smith had a very public sex talk with her 17-year-old daughter, Willow Smith, on Monday. “We as women have been trained that women aren’t supposed to enjoy sex,…
(Reuters) – An Arizona man who made racially-charged online threats to shoot students attending Harvard’s first black commencement ceremony last year and to bomb the university has been arrested, federal…
Big Freedia did not come to play with you hoes, as she’d say. She came to break barriers and make noise and live out loud. Really loud. You may have…
When François Clemmons first met minister-turned-childhood-educator Fred Rogers at a Good Friday service in the 1960s, he had no clue what was in store for him. He caught the attention…
A Jamaican woman who won the equivalent of $1 million in a lottery found a clever way to collect the loot while protecting her identity: by wearing an emoji wink…
The Philadelphia Police Department instituted a new policy on responding to calls about trespassing on private business property nearly two months after the controversial arrest of two black men at…