After previously announcing that it would not do so, the Six Flags theme park, Six Flags Over Texas, has removed the Confederate flag from its marquee and is replacing all six flags currently waving over the entrances with American flags.

As rumors circulated Friday morning that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists planned to rally in downtown Durham, N.C., in response to the toppling of a Confederate statue on Monday by racial-justice advocates, counterprotesters showed up, crowding the streets and forcing local and government businesses and…

Previously on the White House Apprentice, shit was going crazy and everyone was getting fired. The president kept putting his foot in his mouth and siding with racists, and now multiple sources are reporting that Donald Trump’s Head of Racism and Intolerancechief strategist Steve Bannon, who is often credited with…

Let me preface this by saying that as black people, we always know there is going to be at least one. You know the type. They do the most to set themselves apart from the rest of us black folks because they want to be viewed as “different” and “special.” Even if it means selling other black people up the river, they…

On Monday evening during a rally against white supremacy, demonstrators in Durham, N.C., toppled a Confederate statue that had been standing in front of the old courthouse in the city’s downtown area. On Tuesday morning, Takiyah Thompson, the black woman who tied the noose around the statue’s neck so it could be…

I had no idea that there were Confederate monuments in the state of California, so color me surprised when I found out that one of them was located in my beloved Hollywood at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. No need to get upset, though; after intense pressure from the public, the monument was removed early Wednesday…

A recent analysis conducted by the Marshall Project confirms what most of us have known, or at least suspected, all along: When a black man is killed by a white person in America, his killer is less likely to face legal consequences, and the killing is more likely to be deemed justifiable.

Symbols of the Confederacy have been the subject of two very different events over the last few days. In Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park, and their “protest” turned into a bloody riot, with one woman being killed and…

A black woman in Durham, N.C., was arrested Tuesday in connection with the toppling of a Confederate monument outside the Durham County courthouse Monday evening, and the Durham County Sheriff’s Office is executing search warrants, with more arrests expected to come.

A group of protesters in Durham, N.C., toppled a Confederate monument in front of a courthouse in the city’s downtown area Monday evening, and the entire act was caught on video and posted to Twitter. Don’t worry; none of them are dead or arrested yet because they were mostly white.

Show of hands: Who here was raised to believe that the only healthy, positive relationships are ones that are monogamous, just one-on-one?

For those of you just tuning in, what was supposed to be a protest against the removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday turned into a full-blown Ku Klux Klan, “alt-right,” neo-Nazi revival meeting complete with burning torches, black people being attacked and beaten by racist…

When recreational marijuana goes live in California in January 2018, folks traveling along Interstate 15 in the state will have an additional pit stop between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The small city of Nipton was just purchased by a cannabis company that wants to turn the town into a marijuana resort of sorts.

White House Negress token black woman director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault was added as a last-minute addition to a Friday panel discussing police brutality at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans.

We’ve discussed civil asset forfeiture before. This is the practice that allows law enforcement to take your cash, cars, home and any other property away from you if you are suspected of a crime. No conviction is necessary, and you don’t even have to be a drug dealer to be a target.

Imagine being a sheriff’s deputy and being so white that after you and your fellow deputy confess to stealing weed from the sheriff’s office’s evidence locker, selling it in the community with the help of a former snitch who puts it out on the street for you, and then sharing the profits in a three-way split, a…

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission, the Los Angeles Police Department said that it wanted to test the use of drones in a one-year pilot program. The announcement was met with immediate resistance from a group of activists who gathered to denounce the use of any drones by the department.

In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have a Damn Thing, Not Even if We Played a Major Role in Building It From the Ground Up, actor LeVar Burton is being personally sued by a Buffalo, N.Y., public broadcasting station that wants to stop him from using a Reading Rainbow catchphrase on his new podcast.

Earlier this year, Education Secretary and super-rich white woman Betsy DeVos put her foot in her mouth when she said HBCUs were “real pioneers when it comes to school choice.” Because she has never had to worry about not having access to education, it was clear she didn’t understand that those early schools were, in…