As Obama takes his historic trip to Cuba, millennials can’t help but wonder; will our nation’s first black president meet with exiled activist Assata Shakur in…

Films about some of history’s most important Black female figures are infrequent, which is why news of a movie on the life of Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman sparked attention this week. Rumors flew that singer Beyonce Knowles would help develop and star in the film about Baartman, who was taken into the slave trade and put on display in […]

Christie sent a letter Tuesday to Port Authority chairman John Degnan demanding the return of Joanne Chesimard, known as Assata Shakur. The revolutionary activist was convicted of killing a New Jersey State trooper in 1973.

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Just months after Cuban officials declared they have a right to grant asylum to U.S. fugitives despite thawing relations, comes chatter that the federal government…

Amid outcry from the state police union, a New Jersey university has decided to cancel a commencement speech from rapper Common over a song he…

Who run the world? These 10 black female icons, who are still living and making change. Click on the audio player to hear Jasmine Sanders deliver…

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Television producer Mona Scott Young is known for being the woman behind some of TV’s most controversial reality shows, and now one of her latest…

As the United States and Cuba ready themselves to patch their decades-long severed diplomatic relations, alleged cop killer and political prisoner Assata Shakur could be extradited back…