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My heart is breaking as I type this… Rapper Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed outside of his L.A. store, Marathon Clothing, on Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles this evening. Law enforcement sources report, Nipsey Hussle was outside his store when he was approached by the suspect, a black man in his 20’s. The suspect […]

It was announced early this morning that battle rapper, Tech 9, has sadly passed; not to be confused with rapper Tech N9ne of Strange Music.

    Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. Read more about him below.  

After years of executing graceful pirouettes, and crisp dégagés, African American ballerina, Misty Copeland, finally danced her way to the top.

The University of Georgia has temporarily suspended one of its fraternities after a racially charged video has hit social media, showing four members of the Xi-Lambda chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity mocking slavery and using the n-word. The video clocked in at about 30 seconds long, and shows one member hitting the other with a […]

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A Rochester nail salon owner, Hang Lam, 46, was arrested and charged after an undercover investigation revealed he was accepted SNAP benefits for non food items and services. Federal agents conducted five undercover purchases using a SNAP EBT card and discovered that Lam allowed multiple people to use their SNAP benefits to pay for nail […]

The verdict of the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson held that segregated public facilities were constitutional as long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other. As a result of this, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools. This started to change with the verdict made on May […]