The United States Supreme Court has denied the state of Arkansas the right to execute two prisoners out of 8 slated to be put to death this month. This decision was made before the stateās lethal injection drugs expire. These would be the stateās first executions in 12 years, since Eric Nance in 2005.
The two-day search for Steve Stephens has come to a close after he shot and killed himself following a pursuit by law enforcement officers in Pennsylvania. CNN reports that the chase ended in Erie County, Pennsylvania after authorities received more than 400 tips from citizens, according toĀ CNN.
The first 100 days of Donald Trumpās presidency have been marked by continuous attacks on the most vulnerable communities, just as promised. Those who have been resisting this administration have rightly responded to these attacks by attempting to shed light on every step taken toward such harmful effortsāfrom the blatantly bigoted āMuslim banā and its […]
Isabell Meggett Lucas, 87, is one of the many people who have visited the recently opened Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture and had a life-changing experience.Ā
16-year-old Amy Joyner-Francis was attacked by a group of classmates in a girlsĀ bathroom of a Delaware high school in April 2016. She died soon after because of an undiagnosed heart condition.Ā A judge has made a ruling on the teenage girls who were responsible for the fatal attack that day.Ā
Both supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump confronted each other in Berkeley, California at a planned Pro-Trump Rally this past weekend. Nearly two dozen people were arrested as footage shows a number of brawls break out in the crowd.
Police are still searching for a man suspected of shooting a 74-year-old man in Cleveland and uploading a video of it to Facebook.Ā The suspect has been identified as Steve Stephens, who had also broadcast on Facebook Live earlier that day claiming that he’d also killed more than a dozen people, according toĀ NPR. “There are no […]
By Imani J. Jackson #Blackboyjoy sounded more like hustle than hubris earlier this week during a telephonic interview with Trevor Wilkins. The tech entrepreneur is a Southside of Chicago native and celebrant. He is also a Princeton sociology graduate who shared parts of his journey to co-creating an app with more than a half million […]
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York Stateās highest court, has been found dead in the Hudson River. She was found by authorities on Wednesday afternoon and pronounced dead after 2 p.m., according toĀ The New York Times.
By Jallicia Jolly Amidst the recent attacks on access to quality health care and sexual and reproductive health services, the assaults on the lives of racial and sexual minorities specifically reveal the systematic violation reserved for poor women of color, particularly Black and transgender women. The neglect of Black womenās intersectional health experiences in national […]
Charlie Murphy, famedĀ comedian, writer and actor, has passed away at the age of 57.Ā
A Sacramento police officer has been placed on administrative leave after cell phone footage showed him charging at a pedestrian, throwing him to the ground and punching him several times for what appears to be nothing more than jaywalking.
