Author: Christopher Palma

Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Here’s the thing, good people: Republicans lie, Democrats lie — numbers don’t. Sure, statistics can be manipulated, and the figures often don’t tell the full story, regardless. Still, a court record, for example, is a court record, and it indicates to us that a legal

Source: Ashley Gonzalez / Screenshot Last month, we reported the story of now-former Houston Police Department officer Ashley Gonzalez, the loud and proud racist, who recorded herself gleefully slinging around racial slurs while ranting about how much she hates Black people, takes great joy in committing acts of police brutality

Source: Apparently, there’s a competition going on for the most racist state, because Tennessee is doing its damnedest to win it. As if it wasn’t bad enough that Tennessee Republicans passed a map that disenfranchises the state’s Black voters, on Tuesday, they announced that every state Democrat will be removed

Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Atlanta-based Pastor Jamal Bryant is spearheading a new affordable housing development aimed at helping Black families create long-term generational wealth. In an exclusive interview with Black Enterprise published on May 12, the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church senior pastor announced the launch of New Birth

Source: Muhammad Aqib / Getty In news that’s surprising to absolutely no one, as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) surged over the last few months, so did household debt. It’s almost like starting an unnecessary war that directly impacts energy prices isn’t great for an already strained economy.  According to

Source: LeoPatrizi / Getty College campuses and even high schools have long been the heartbeats of student protests and political and civil rights movements. From lunch counters in the Jim Crow South to the streets of apartheid-era South Africa, students have repeatedly risked their safety, education, and even their lives

Source: Erika Goldring / Getty Last month, we reported that Louisiana Republicans decided to postpone the state’s congressional primaries amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which resulted in the blocking of a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana just weeks before the election. And

Source: Alex Wong / Getty Here’s the thing: the GOP has a casual racism problem. To be sure, it has an overt racism problem as well — and our current president is the MAGA grand wizard in charge when it comes to fostering it — but the tendency for Republican

Source: Gado / Getty Free speech in America has never fully belonged to Black Americans. The tools used to silence us have changed in how they appear over time, but the logic underneath them hasn’t.  In 1740, the South Carolina Negro Act codified white supremacy and made it a crime

Source: diane555 / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered.  NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for