According to Newsweek, the primary organizers of a Women’s March that was to take place in Eureka, California has been cancelled due to concerns that those who would participate in the event would not accurately reflect the diversity of the community. In a statement released by the founders on Facebook, they explain that following conversations […]
According to NPR, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is set to eliminate a guidance provided by the Obama administration which was designed to reduce racial discrimination in the disciplinary action taken by schools.
This past Monday, 46-year old Albert Weathers, a Detroit pastor, was charged with the murder of 36-year old Kelly Stough, a Black trans woman. She was killed in Detroit’s Palmer Park neighborhood.
by Daniel Johnson Recently, University of Temple professor, author, and activist Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his post as an on-air political commentator at CNN after delivering an address at the U.N. during the organizationās marking of the upcoming 70th anniversary of its original Declaration of Human Rights, which came on the conclusion of […]
As Mexico City swore in its first female mayor on Wednesday, Claudia Sheinbaum, she pledged she would dissolve the infamous Granaderos anti-riot police which has been used to violently suppress protests. The Granaderos police unit was popularly known to violently repress people’s dissent and control opposition groups. In 1968, Mexico’s president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered […]
According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the mall shooting over Black Friday weekend. According to witness accounts on the scene, Bradford had been assisting victims to safety, but the police still mistook the 21-year-old man […]
This past Tuesday, 31-year-old Palestinian American Ferguson activist, Bassem Masri, died. Most well-known for his live streams of the Ferguson uprising after the murder of Michael Brown, Masri’s death struck a chord with many activists commemorating his life.
By Brittany Lee Frederick At a rally in Anaheim, California in September of this year Barack Obama was quoted saying, āIf you vote, things will get better, it will be a start.ā This echoes the mainstream Democrats insistence upon voting for a Blue Wave to create social change next week. While this article isnāt one […]
In the same week which has seen the attempted mail bombing of prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Maxine Waters and the shooting of two Black customers at a Louisville Kroger, there has been yet another attack by an alleged white supremacist. This time the target was a Jewish synagogue and community in Pittsburgh.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
By Gabrielle Noel The legal system was never built with Black queer people in mind. This system assigns victimhood, or refuses it, according to social biases, and societyās perception of who is more likely to be a victim or more credible thus affects who is allowed to receive justice. When it comes to sexual harassment, […]
by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia Rafael Braga Vieira was sentenced to five years in prison afterĀ policeĀ arrested him at aĀ large demonstrationĀ in Rio de Janeiro on June 20, 2013. 25 years old at the time, Braga was homeless and collecting recyclables to survive. He was completely unaware that a mass protest was even taking place. Raphael was charged […]
