Bolitics

Harvard University is making big changes to how it handles DEI or diversity programs on campus—changes that many believe are happening because of growing pressure from the Trump administration. The Ivy League school is also fighting to get back $2.2 billion in frozen federal funds.  According to the National Review, Harvard is renaming its Office […]

UPDATED—10:16 AM 04/28/2025 A rep for the NMAAHC says that no artifacts have been removed. Both the Greensboro lunch counter and the stools where college students sat in protest during the Civil Rights Movement are still on display, according to a statement from a representative to journalist Phil Lewis. “A stool from the sit-ins remains […]

New information is emerging about the Florida State University shooting suspect, Phoenix Ikner, who is accused of killing two people and injuring six others on campus Thursday afternoon. Previously reported by BOSSIP, Ikner allegedly opened fire inside the university’s student center, leaving two dead. Police shot and wounded Ikner after noncompliance. He remains hospitalized and […]

Racial slurs used by a news station? Los Angeles news station KTLA issued a public apology on Friday after its official X (formerly Twitter) account posted a single-word tweet containing the N-word. The tweet was published the morning of April 11 and deleted shortly after—but not before screenshots began circulating widely across social media. As […]

A high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, ended in tragedy Wednesday when a 17-year-old student was fatally stabbed during an altercation under a team tent, prompting a murder charge against another student. Questions about event security and self-defense laws are rising since the event. According to ABC News, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, a student-athlete at […]

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order demanding a rewrite of what he calls America’s “distorted” narrative. The target? The Smithsonian Institution: the world’s largest museum and research complex, home to 21 museums, the National Zoo, and more than a century’s worth of collective knowledge. This sounds torn straight from a dystopian history book.  […]

The audacity is never on backorder. Yet, there’s something powerful about choosing peace over chaos, especially when that chaos could be racially motivated.  According to NewsOne, London-based pianist and content creator Camden Stewart was recently harassed while performing on a public piano, and the disturbing moment was caught on video. What started as a simple […]

A Michigan man who spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs on a predominantly Black church in Roseville has been sentenced to one year in federal prison. According to a March 19, 2025, press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, David Bluer, 34, of Warren, pleaded guilty in December 2024 to one count of damaging religious […]

A white couple in West Virginia who adopted five Black children just so they could abuse them, neglect them, confine them to deplorable living conditions, and force them into slave labor will spend decades of their lives behind bars, if not the rest of their lives. According to the Associated Press, 62-year-old Jeanne Kay Whitefeather […]

After Virginia track athlete Alaila Everett struck her opponent, Kaelen Tucker, in the head with a relay baton, Everett held a rally and thanked supporters like the local NAACP, who believe her actions were accidental. According to WTKR News 3, Tucker collapsed after the impact and was later diagnosed with a concussion and a possible […]

Arlington National Cemetery, the nation’s most hallowed ground for military veterans, has quietly wiped out online history lessons about Black, Hispanic, and female service members, stripping biographies, educational materials, and even Medal of Honor recipient lists from its website. According to the BBC, some of the erased content included biographies of Gen. Colin Powell, the […]

What happened to Qaadir Malik and Naazir Rahim Lewis? That’s the question being asked after the bodies of  Black twin brothers were discovered on a Georgia mountain with fatal bullet wounds. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement published Sunday that “the preliminary investigation reveals the deaths to be a murder-suicide.” However, as […]