#YourLifeMatters

This movement is summed up for me, and always has been summed up for me, in one statement: Mike Brown saved my life. Mike Brown…

#YourLifeMatters

A year after the murder of Michael Brown Jr. there are thousands of transformative stories from a compiled list of unheard voices. The Ferguson Uprising…

#YourLifeMatters

A dark abyss. If someone were to ask me where I was on August 9, 2014 – before I received news that yet another black…

News & Gossip

A mother of eight is the fifth Black woman to be found dead in a jail cell since mid-July. Mount Vernon, New York native Raynette Turner died in…

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Alright’ took on a new, more transcendent meaning for a moment in Cleveland, Ohio over the weekend. The Black Lives Matter conference at Cleveland State University…

#YourLifeMatters

The Department of Homeland Security has made it their business to keep tabs on Black Lives Matter activists since the uprising in Ferguson, Missouri following the…

Jeff Johnson has three things crazy people want you to think make sense. All three have to do with these stories: Drake and Meek Mill, Black…

Despite claims that Sandra Bland committed suicide in a Texas jail cell following a violent arrest after a traffic stop, a Waller County prosecutor said…

National

Black Lives Matter founder Patriss Cullors lead a protest at Netroots Nation in Phoenix, Arizona, effectively shutting down the speeches of presidential hopefuls former Maryland,…

Kalief Browder’s story will make you outraged and so depressed at the same time. At age 16, when Browder was just a high school sophmore he was accused of stealing a backpack and then incarcerated at Rikers Island for three years without trial.  Browder denied the charge and refused to take a plea deal during his […]

In what critics are calling a gross misrepresentation of facts, Ferguson, Missouri’s police chief is under fire for claiming in a recent interview that it…