Murder Trial Set To Begin For Chicago Cop In 2014 Shooting Of Black Teen
CHICAGO (AP) — In a Chicago courtroom over the coming weeks, the spotlight will focus on one night in 2014, 16 gunshots, a white police officer, the death of a…
Sex Worker Activists Support Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar’s Primary Win
Sex workers’ rights advocates are celebrating Julia Salazar’s win in the New York Democratic primary election, saying that they have an ally in the 27-year-old Democratic Socialist. Salazar included the…
Beyoncé, Jay-Z Allegedly Threatened By Trayvon Martin Shooter George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of murder in the controversial Trayvon Martin case, has allegedly referred to Beyoncé as a “broke whore” in a series of text messages obtained…
The View From Inside A Freedom Rider’s Jail Cell
The mugshots faded into the backdrop of black history until Eric Etheridge went digging. It was 2003. The journalist and photographer was looking to center a photography project around historical…
Listen To Full 911 Audio Of ‘BBQ Becky’ Calling Cops On Black Men Grilling
News station KTVU has published the full 911 audio recordings of an infamous incident involving a white Oakland woman calling police over two black men grilling in a park. The…
Family Of Unarmed Black Teen Murdered By White Cop Says 15-Year Sentence Is Too Short
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury gave a white former police officer too lenient of a punishment when sentencing him to 15 years for the shooting death of an unarmed…
‘White People Food’ Is Creating An Unattainable Picture Of Health
Tanisha Gordon doesn’t see what white people love so much about cottage cheese. Or salads, especially when they’re topped with fussy ingredients like candied almonds, pickled carrots or Brussels slaw.…
Tennessee Man Accused Of Burning Black Man Alive Was Known White Supremacist
A white man accused of burning a black man alive in Tennessee earlier this year was a known white supremacist, an expert in extremism told HuffPost, and subscribed to a…
‘BlacKkKlansman’ Gives Law Enforcement More Credit Than It Deserves
This op-ed contains spoilers. I live for Spike Lee’s provocations. Growing up, Spike Lee’s anthropological film-length essays were vital cheat sheets on race relations, entertaining while informing me of the…
The Department Of Education Underreports Allegations Of Racial Discrimination In Schools
The U.S. Department of Education has been receiving thousands more racial discrimination allegations in schools than it has previously publicly reported, HuffPost has uncovered through an analysis of department data.…