You may not be aware that police officers across the country are currently able to have sexual contact with sex workers before arresting them. Don’t worry, you aren’t alone if you weren’t privy. Apparently 90 percent of people in Alaska didn’t know either. Which makes it all the more shocking that police in the northern-most […]
Another Southern state has agreed to catch up with the times and stop celebrating people who went to war just to keep Black people in chains. The city council of Hollywood, Fl. voted 5-2 to change the names of three streets named after Confederate leaders which just-so-happen to run through predominantly Black neighborhoods. Per usual […]
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are not pleased with President Trump. In an op-ed published in the Washington Post early Friday morning called āDonald Trump is not well,ā the engaged āMorning Joeā co-hosts delivered a bevvy of critiques of President Trumpās Twitter assault on Brzezinski on Thursday.
A professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. is caught up in major controversy after a social media post has resulted in demands for his termination and death threats.Ā
By Sherronda J. Brown This post contains Wonder Woman spoilers and discussion of sexual violenceĀ The last time there was this much buzz about feminism in a popular action thriller, it was following the release of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. With a story about women fleeing sex slavery, it was not difficult to […]
Jared Kushner, senior advisor to Donald Trump (and his son in law) is now under FBI and congressional investigationĀ due to aĀ private meeting he had with a Russian banker during the presidential transition.
Nevada may become the second state to require police officers to wear body cameras while they’re on duty.Ā
To help Ā remedy the circumstances that led to Sandra Bland’s death in a Texas jail, the state Senate unanimously passed a bill commonly referred to as the Sandra Bland Act.Ā
FBI Director James Comey was in the Los Angeles bureau when he got the news he was let go. He was speaking to staff members when televisions throughout the office started broadcasting that he had been fired by the president.Ā The New York TimesĀ reports that he initially laughed it off before finding out it wasn’t a […]
Recently,Ā Bill Brennan, a candidate for New Jersey governor, turned some heads when he shared his opinion on for-profit prisons, according toĀ Salon.Ā
In the darker days of U.S. history, “conversion therapy” was used as a means to force members of the LGBTQ community to live a heterosexual lifestyle. The use of electric shot treatments, forced nausea and biased therapy practices were used to “cure” what many people welt was a disease. While there are still institutions that […]
A federal judge has found a Texas voter IDĀ law to be intentionally discriminatory towards Black and Hispanic voters. According to The New York Times,Ā the 2011 law was found to be in violation of the Voting Rights Act and may once again place Texas elections under federal supervision.
