Screenshot: GQ A Massachusetts charter school has partially reversed its ban on durags after students convinced administrators of the rule’s unfairness, successfully arguing that the head covering isn’t a gateway drug that leads to gang-banging or even worse—male pattern baldness. According to the Daily Item, Kipp Academy Lynn Collegiate School had been issuing in-school suspensions…
‘A historic day’: Montgomery, Alabama, elects its first African-American mayor
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in municipal government for the first time in its 200-year history.
Trump’s 2020 campaign caught photoshopping MAGA hats onto people of color
Rykard Jenkins got a rude surprise recently when he found out that the 2020 Trump for president campaign decided to steal a photo of him and use Photoshop to turn him into an advertisement. Woke up this morning to know I’m the new face for the 2020 @realDonaldTrump campaign 🇺🇸 ? pic.twitter.com/gl5SqPxKsj
Baltimore man killed by white neighbour after court denies him protective order
Tyrique Hudson. Pic credit: CBS Baltimore Friends and family in Baltimore are mourning the death of Tyrique Hudson, a 22-year-old software engineer who was gunned down by his white neighbour while leaving for work this month. Hudson, who had just earned a computer science degree at North Carolina A&T University, had moved to his apartment…
Body of Army veteran who died in jail turns up with no throat, heart and brain
An Army veteran’s family is still searching for answers more than a year after he mysteriously died in a Pennsylvania jail and his body turned up with no throat, heart and brain, NY1 reports. Rose and Dwayne Palmer spoke to the news station last week, in an effort to come to terms with their son and brother’s…
After 130 Years, Harvard Law Review Elects a Black Woman President
ImeIme Umana, the newly elected president of the Harvard Law Review, at the journal’s offices.Credit Tony Luong for The New York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It has been 27 years since the first black man, an older student by the name of Barack Obama, was elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. It has…
