Michael Cottman
Tracey Friley, a travel enthusiast from Oakland, California, is the founder of Passport Party Project, a community-based philanthropic global awareness program that provides underserved African-American girls with the resources they need to acquire their first passports. Friley’s goal: To give away one passport a day for one year to deserving African-American girls – and, for […]
President Trump spent this month bickering on Twitter, authorizing a callous immigration policy, embarrassing himself on the world stage and arguing – again – with a high-profile African-American. Is anyone surprised? It’s been nine months since Trump took office and it already feels like a full term. Here’s what you need to know: Trump called […]
Faye Gary learned about sexual predators by following a man suspected of questionable behavior. Gary, a retired Gadsden, Alabama police officer, was once assigned to watch Roy Moore in the 1980s to make sure he didn’t mingle with high school cheerleaders. Moore, the embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct by nearly 10 […]
It’s come to this: A racist supporter of President Donald Trump threatened to murder U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. For months, many Black Americans have talked openly about how Trump’s racially incendiary rhetoric incites his bigoted supporters to violence but conservatives always dismiss the notions as left-wing quackery. But Anthony Scott Lloyd, 44, from San Pedro, California, […]
More than one million African-Americans are exposed to serious health threats, including risk of cancer, because of toxic air pollution sweeping through Black communities across the nation. According to a landmark study released Tuesday by The NAACP, The Clean Air Task Force and The National Medical Association, more than one million African-Americans live in areas […]
Shamirah Johnson’s death in a Florida jail remains a mystery. Johnson, 29, was arrested on October 24 and held in Polk County Jail before being transferred to the Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. There are many questions surrounding Johnson’s death – and, so far, there are few answers. Here’s what […]
There’s an old adage that says when you’re in a hole, stop digging. But when President Donald Trump is deep in the dirt, he always reaches for a new shovel. This month, Trump hit a new low. The president was embroiled in a war of words with three women of color: Carmen Yulín Cruz, the […]
A majority of white Americans say they are victims of anti-white discrimination in many facets of their lives. In a new national poll, more whites surveyed say discrimination against them is a real issue and that African-Americans are favored in the job market, according to a poll released by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation […]
Racists are marching – again. White supremacists are making good on their pledge to rally their hateful troops through the South: The next demonstration, entitled “White Lives Matter,” is scheduled for Shelbyville, Tennessee, population 20,000. After the deadly protests by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, white supremacists vowed to continue protesting the removal of […]
A 34-year-old cold case involving the racially motivated murder of a 23-year-old black man has been solved with the arrest of five white people – including two police officers who allegedly tried to cover up the homicide. Timothy Coggins was found dead on a power line on Oct. 9, 1983 in a small Georgia town […]
“Racism still exists and it’s very serious and it’s right in your neighborhood” – Mikea Eberhart Mikea Eberhart never thought she would be harassed by racists just a few blocks from her home. Until this week. Eberhart, who is nine months pregnant, said she was walking in her Dearborn Heights, Michigan neighborhood to try to […]
Kwame Kilpatrick is asking a federal judge to expunge $1.5 million in restitution Kilpatrick has been ordered to pay the city of Detroit. This could be a fool’s errand. “There is NO LOSS TO THE CITY OF DETROIT IN THIS CASE WHATSOEVER!” Kilpatrick wrote to U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, according to The Detroit Free […]
