Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, was denied tenure at the University of North Carolina, her alma mater, by its board of trustees, according to a report by NC Policy Watch. The board’s decision sparked outrage online and from faculty and staff. Some have claimed the board’s decision resulted after pressure from conservatives, USA Today Reports….

Since the onset of the coronavirus, there has been an increase in anti-Asian violence and hate. This panel discussion will delve into the anti-Asian sentiment and racism in higher education and discuss the social inequalities that Asian Americans have experienced amidst the global pandemic. The event will also share tools for best navigating racialized violence…

Anna Malaika Tubbs learned she was pregnant with her first child in November 2019 while researching her first book. Already, her relationship with the stories she was uncovering about Alberta King, Louise Little and Emma Berdis Baldwin had been intensifying, the more she learned about their revolutionary role in the fight for Black equality, respect and…

The incident, which was caught on video, occurred during an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) tournament game at indoor basketball center Soldiertown on Saturday, according to KPIX 5. In the video, the teenager, identified only as Evan, is seen being pushed by a player from the San Francisco Generals, the opposing team, the story says. Evan manages…

Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn’t go well. His supervisors allowed him to quit after he suffered a “dangerous lack of composure” during firearms training. The department concluded he would “not be able to cope or make good decisions” under…

The positive response to a one-credit class on Anti-Black Racism that the University of Connecticut offered in the fall 2020 semester has resulted in the class being offered again in the spring 2021 semester. The free course saw a fall enrollment of 1,450 undergraduate students, 125 graduate students, and 625 staff and faculty. The class,…

The August Wilson African American Cultural Center received a sizable grant to help support “emerging artists of color” in Pittsburgh, according to a press release. The latest gift adds is on top of $350,000 the RK Mellon Foundation gave AWAACC earlier this year to create its new B.U.I.L.D. artist-in-residency program. B.U.I.L.D. (which stands for Build, Utilize, Inform, Lead,…

Long before the verdict was read Tuesday afternoon it was clear, especially in communities of color, that George Floyd was murdered and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was guilty. What was also clear is that this trial was not just about Chauvin. And it not merely about the man he killed. The verdict was…

A Black police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a White colleague employed a chokehold will be given back pay and a pension, CNN reports. The officer, Cariol Horne, was fired following a 2006 incident in which she tried to stop an officer from using a chokehold on…

Domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington Post Reports. The surge reflects a growing threat from homegrown terrorism not…