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✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know with the stories shaping our lives right now. From the ballot box to the courtroom, here’s what our community needs to keep front and center this week. Byron Donalds Wins Florida GOP Nomination, Eyes a Historic First Byron Donalds, an African American Republican, secured his party’s nomination for Florida governor Tuesday night. He defeated several well-known rivals with the […]

✕ D.L. Hughley’s latest Notes from the GED Section, had one subject in its crosshairs this week: Stephen A. Smith. The central question was straightforward, what does it say about a celebrated Black media figure when, fresh off an honor from his own community, his next stop is Fox News? TRENDING STORY: Stephen A. Smith Vows To Clap Back After NABJ Blessed Him With “Thumbs Down” Award TRENDING STORY: Timeline Of […]

Source: Bettmann / Getty Every year when Black August rolls around, the stories we pull from the archive tend to center on Black men’s experience while the distinct warfare waged against Black women political prisoners gets reduced to a quiet whisper, if mentioned at all.  I learned to tune my ears to those whispers early on in my academic career. My education in Black political activism began on the streets […]

Dmitry Vinogradov At a time when most universities are preparing for incoming freshman, the first week of classes and an overall fresh start to a new semester, Penn State finds itself in the headlines for much more nefarious reasons that include allegations of drug-trafficking and hazing. Fourteen people connected to fraternities Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi are being charged in a cocaine-trafficking sting that involves 13 current and/or former students, […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know segment, cutting through the noise to bring you the stories that matter most to our communities. This week, she covers a troubling campus shooting, a major political shift that puts our voices front and center, and a banking milestone worth celebrating. Here’s your breakdown. Arrest Made After Virginia State University Shooting Police have arrested 19-year-old Cameron Harris following an […]

Getty At the center of the civil rights movement lies a handful of key players, and one that we owe a great respect to is political activist Marcus Garvey (1887 – 1940). Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, his work in creating an organization that could unite the entire African diaspora made a global impact so big that his ideologies became a movement in itself […]

Source: Facebook / facebook Nearly seven years after Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her own home, the city is preparing to pay her family $11.25 million. And while the money cannot bring Atatiana back, the settlement represents another uncomfortable reminder that a Black woman had to lose her life before the system was forced to reckon with what happened. According to CBS News […]

Source: ArtPhoto21 / Getty This week, we reported on the strange and complicated case of  Alaskan resident McKenna West and the California couple she served as a surrogate for, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed. The three adults ended up in a legal battle over West’s refusal to terminate a pregnancy, which the couple wanted done after learning that the baby would be born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a […]

Source: Wells Family GoFundMe / Screenshot The legal team representing Nolan Wells’ family has spoken out to push back against allegations that they are unwilling to cooperate with local authorities investigating their son’s death.  In a press release, the legal team representing Wells’ family said that the family previously agreed to a joint examination of Nolan’s phone during a meeting with the District Attorney’s office last month. While an agreement […]