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According to Reuters, U.N. investigators say that Israel’s security forces may have committed war crimes as well as crimes against humanity when they wounded more than 6,100 Palestinians and killed 189 during protests in Gaza last year.

By “DJ Ferguson” All Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder written by Frank Miller is an unholy mixture of camp and 90s grim-and-gritty/edgy for its own sake, but this interaction between Batman and Green Lantern will stick with me for the rest of my life. This story takes place not long after Batman: Year […]

According to the ACLU’s update on Medium, some on the United States government’s No Fly List are being kept on the list due to a fear of future criminal activities and are not being allowed to plead their cases in court. As a result, the ACLU is petitioning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in […]

Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s District Attorney, moved on Wednesday to eliminate the policy of seeking cash bail for 25 non-violent offenses, including driving while intoxicated, marijuana possession, and forgery. This move comes as the latest in a series of similar cases in states like California, New York, and Texas aimed at reducing the use of monetary […]

The police department in Baltimore should be tired of being the subject of news at this point. But yet again we find ourselves talking about the ways in which they are emblematic of the problems within law enforcement in this country. In what is sure to be only the latest scandal involving this city’s police […]

According to The Verge, the US Border Patrol is in a crisis, steadily losing staff even though President Trump wants more agents. In order to combat this issue, there have been proposals to cut the polygraph tests which have been yielding some interesting results, to say the least. Corruption, murder and child pornography are only […]

One of the country’s most liberal states is under fire for a worrisome trend. A recently released report from the state’s Justice Department finds that hate crimes against Black people have risen by as much as 11.2 percent in California.

Mario Manago, a 12-year-veteran of the U.S. Air Force was fired and convicted of a federal crime for being six minutes late to a meeting with superior officers. He’s now forced to find new employment and an employer willing to look past his curious criminal conviction. 

Two men have been killed and one remains hospitalized after they attempted to stop an anti-Muslim attack. Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53, both had their throats slit and died shortly after they approached Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35. 

Richard Collins III appeared to have a long, prosperous career ahead of him. At 23, he had just been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was preparing to graduate from Bowie State University this week. Instead, he was stabbed in a killing a the University of Maryland this weekend that is now […]

In a sign of things to come for Black communities under the new administration, President Trump threatened federal intervention to address the “carnage” that is Chicago’s gun violence in a tweet last Tuesday night: If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible “carnage” going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I […]

Aml Elsokary has been a member of the NYPD for 11 years. But when she was out of uniform with her son in Brooklyn, that didn’t matter as she was threatened on the street. Elsokary had just dropped her son off in Brooklyn on Saturday night when he got into a confrontation with Christopher Nelson, […]