Chauncey Alcorn

Bassem Masri became the latest activist from 2014’s Ferguson, Missouri, protests to die on Tuesday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Preliminary reports indicated the 31-year-old Palestinian-American died of a massive heart attack, but his…

White nationalists and supporters of the alt-right appear to be watching the ongoing trial of accused Charlottesville, Virginia, killer James Alex Fields Jr. closely this week, and at least one of them — Radical Agenda podcast host Christopher…

The anti-Semitic rhetoric of white supremacist Patrick Little, the failed Republican U.S. Senate candidate behind the “Name the Jew” campaign, was too much for Gab on Tuesday. The social media website said Little had crossed the line from hate…

Going on vacation could have been a humiliating and perilous journey for black Americans during the mid-20th century, when flourishing automobiles and interstate highways made long-distance travel and leisure a premium part of the American…

Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives Ben McAdams has declared victory over Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) in their hotly contested midterm election battle, the Hill reported. The race was too close to call on Nov. 6 and McAdams’ vote…

Women’s March board member Linda Sarsour said via text message Tuesday that she and fellow activist leaders of the movement are not stepping down and the third annual Women’s March will proceed as planned. The march’s founder Teresa Shook wrote a…

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NRA representatives have spent the last several days trying to explain why they won’t condemn the police shooting death of Jemel Roberson, the black security guard who used his legally-owned firearm to subdue a shooter at an Illinois bar on Sunday…

A University of Texas at San Antonio college professor became the latest person to call police on a black person for a nonemergency issue Monday after one of the professor’s black students allegedly propped her feet up on the lecture hall chair in…