1+ week, 1+ day ago   (600+ words) The worst part of Target’s decision to market and sell a racially offensive Halloween costume this year is that it came after Black people across the country boycotted the retail giant. For months last year, many customers stopped shopping at…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (295+ words) The Trump administration is investigating the City University of New York over allegations of racial discrimination, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday. The agency’s civil rights arm said it received reports alleging CUNY’s Black Male Initiative gives preference to some students…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (555+ words) The war against Iran started a week ago, but it’s not the only war we’re fighting. The Defense Department also declared war on American universities. It cut ties with Columbia, Yale, Brown, MIT and others and forbade members of the…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (244+ words) Ben Stiller blasted the White House for its use of a clip from his satirical action comedy “Tropic Thunder” in a video posted to promote the war in Iran. In addition to 2008’s “Tropic Thunder,” the social media supercut also…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (551+ words) New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels has pumped the breaks on a plan to close an Upper West Side middle school after a Black student fighting to save her school was interrupted by racist remarks in a controversial comment…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago   (723+ words) Today, about seven million people will watch what is known as “America’s game” — the Army-Navy football contest. It has been played since 1890, and, since 1898 has never been cancelled. Seven million people is a lot of viewers, but it is a…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (427+ words) The mayoral election was not a wave of enthusiasm for democratic socialism. It was actually a cry from Black New York about the crushing cost of living that threatens to push families out of the city that our communities built....

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (475+ words) New York’s highest court has thrown out a years-long legal challenge to selective admissions at the city’s gifted programs and specialized high schools as discriminatory against Black and Latino students. The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday dismissed the…...