The rapper uses actual surveillance video of a SWAT team raiding his North Carolina house to illustrate his song about the experience.

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It’s in vogue to call the new movement to end police violence against black civilians leaderless. Historian and veteran activist Barbara Ransby argues that it has many leaders in the Ella Baker ...

He was headed for the discipline track, Ford-Morthel says, and even as a fourth grader, he would easily have been suspended for his behavior in many other schools. "But we sat with him and we had to ...

Angola is the largest maximum-security prison in the country. At least 90 percent of its inmates will die there. And Evangelical Warden Burl Cain has made sure their lives look as much like "slavery ...

MTV's Best New Artist hurls hundreds of anti-gay slurs on his new album. "I'm not homophobic," he has explained. "Gay just means you're stupid." Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media ...

Mollena Williams is gregarious, the kind of woman who makes a point of saying, “How are you today?” to the Walgreens cashier. She has a short afro and laughs easily. She works as an administrative ...

Over Labor Day weekend, Akiba Solomon took a 21-hour bus ride to Michael Brown's town with a group of black activists traveling under the name Black Life Matters. Here's some of what happened during ...

The author and activist discusses the evolution of her career, the partnerships that inspire her work and writing from the edges of her life. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on ...

The “Pose” star at the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner: “You do not have the power to accept or tolerate me; I take that from you. You will respect me.” Share ...

In July, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) celebrated its 30th anniversary since becoming law on July 26, 1990. The ADA made it illegal to discriminate against anyone who is disabled, and much ...

Sometimes their children walked. Sometimes their children rowed. Sometimes their children died. In 1948, when only 16 states in America had outlawed segregated public schools, Black parents in the ...