One day after The New Yorker published horrific new video of teenage Rikers Island inmate Kalief Browder being beaten by a corrections officer and other inmates, Browder’s lawyer spoke to HuffPost Live to react to the unsettling footage. Browder was only 16 when he was arrested on the way home from a party in 2010. He was held without a ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that if Republicans don’t schedule a confirmation vote soon for U.S. attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, he’ll do it himself. “I know parliamentary procedure around here and we’re going to put up with this for a little while longer, but not much,” Reid said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel ...

NEW YORK — A march from New York City to Washington, D.C., to protest police brutality started Monday morning in Staten Island — the borough where Eric Garner died last summer after being put into a chokehold by a New York police officer. About 100 protesters gathered at the foot of the Outerbridge Crossing in preparation for the nine-day, 250-mile ...

On Tuesday, I attended a historic, first-ever briefing on issues facing trans women of color at the White House. Convened by the National LGBTQ Task Force, the briefing was held on the International Transgender Day of Visibility — March 31 — and during Women’s History Month. Panelists who took part in the briefing were comprised of Black, Asian American, American ...

“The Jerome Project” began in 2011, when artist Titus Kaphar was researching his father Jerome’s prison records. Kaphar, who was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and currently lives between New York and Connecticut, creates artwork that, both aesthetically and thematically, sews together past and present in a rough and sometimes violent reworking of history. When looking into his father’s history, he ...

Former actress Stacey Dash — or, as I like to call her, the ghost of ’90s past — appeared on Fox News’ Outnumbered on Friday to discuss last week’s controversial order from the National Panhellenic Conference. In a misguided attempt to reduce sexual assault, 16 sorority leaders instituted a ban, barring members of their UVA chapters from attending “Boys’ Bid ...

Ten businesses here were completely destroyed by fire and several others were vandalized on Nov. 24, following protests over a grand jury decision not to bring charges in the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. The McDonald’s on West Florissant Avenue, a hot spot for protests since Brown was killed in August, was closed for over two weeks due to ...

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