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It seems Reverend Al Sharpton's sketchy endorsement didn't do much for filmmaker Nate Parker.

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The controversy surrounding Nate Parker’s 2001 sexual assault case just got messier. As if the complex racial politics of Parker’s upcoming film “The Birth Of A Nation” weren’t enough to stoke the flames of the 16-year-old trial, emerging details from the case could put Parker in even hotter water as Fox prepares the awards-season release […]

Anthony Anderson is well aware of the recent drama surrounding Birth Of A Nation director Nate Parker, but the black-ish star says he fully supports him.

Darren Sharper was sentenced on Thursday after being arrested in 2014 in connection with the sexual assault of multiple women.

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Back in 1999, Parker and his roommate Jean McGianni Celestin were accused of raping and intimidating a girl.

The controversy ramped up last week when Parker was asked about a 1999 rape charge involving him and Jean Celestin, his college roommate and 'Birth of A Nation' collaborator, while they were students at Penn State University.

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The mom and entrepreneur claims a total of 21 women have come forward to tell her Connor raped them.

  Brock Turner, a swimmer at Stanford University, has been convicted of raping an unconscious woman. His sentence? About 6 months, because the California judge who tried him thought a longer sentence would be too damaging to him. Meanwhile, across the country, many young black people are receiving harsh sentences for crimes they did not commit, or […]

A lawyer friend posed this thorny question yesterday: “How many Black men have been falsely accused of rape and spent have their lives in prison for crimes they didn’t commit?” I couldn’t answer his question with a hard number. I didn’t know. My friend really didn’t want a definitive response; his mind was already made […]

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A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday found enough evidence to proceed with the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby.

A week after it was reported that Bill Cosby‘s lawyers requested to have the sexual assault case against him dismissed, new evidence has surfaced that Cosby admitted to abusing women while being questioned for Andrea Constand’s civil lawsuit in 2005 and 2006. The Cut reports that Cosby “acknowledged drugging and giving alcohol to women before having […]

Dr. Gardere explores challenges Black communities face when dealing with sex assault charges and discusses the road to healing.