A school district in Iowa must now face the consequences after failing to protect a Black middle school student from racial harassment. The post Black Iowa Student Racially Harassed, School District Created ‘Hostile Environment,’ Feds Say appeared first on NewsOne.
As Black people, we are expected to consume these personal, violent attacks like we digest cake. We are told that we cannot act if someone decides to be ruthless, violent and trifling. As violence begets violence against us, we are continually told and showed that it is not fine to simply be.
Black Iowa teens received college scholarships for keeping their promise to graduate high school. The scholarship offer and promise to graduate came a decade ago.
An Iowa man is facing hate crime charges after he was arrested on Sunday for fighting with a Black man. Andy Benavidez of Iowa City was wearing a surgical mask when police discovered him fighting the other man, and told police he wore the mask because he was “allergic to Black people,” local outlet KGAN reports. […]
A van carrying Ben Carson's presidential campaign team "hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side," striking another vehicle.
Donald Trump disavowed a group's robocalls that urge voters to vote for Trump because "we don't need Muslims," but understands their anger.
Arrested for Being Transgender: Meagan Taylor http://t.co/kPh7PfFk8E pic.twitter.com/3pT29PXynb — BTNOMB (@BTNOMB) July 21, 2015 A transgender woman from Lahokia, Illinois was arrested and held in a Polk County Jail for…
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Homeowners Shelly Owens (pictured), her fiance, Kevin Durham (pictured), and their children had their Council Bluffs, Iowa, home vandalized and then set ablaze in what…