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43 criminal cases are likely to be dropped after a Baltimore police officer “self-reported” footage of a “re-enactment of the seizure of evidence.” In other words, body camera footage captured an officer planting evidence – yes, for a third time – and they gave the department a heads up in advance. 

Bill Cosby’s legal issues are very far from being over. For starters, the comedian will face trial in California in June 2018 for sexually assaulting a teenager 40 years ago. Secondly, it was just announced that he will face retrial for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand in November. 

St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez faces up to 20 years in prison for shooting Philando Castile in July 2016. The first 10 years would be the maximum sentence for manslaughter.

By Kristian Davis Bailey In December 2016, I visited the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro. Students had been occupying UFF for 45 days, with some sleeping inside barricaded academic buildings 24/7 to shut the university down. The UFF Occupation was one of 1,000 national occupations protesting Michel Temer’s right-wing presidential coup and […]

State violence does not only show up as false arrests and physical harm. State violence is also the unwillingness of the State to rehabilitate those that are impacted by it’s terrorizing reach.

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey was in the news a lot last week, receiving both praise and ire from liberal progressives. It seems the once promising political figure is now experiencing scrutiny for many of his lesser known or publicized political decisions. Rightfully so.

One the reasons so many of the historical acts of violence against Black people in the United States go unanswered is due to statutes of limitations and other legal barriers to achieving equal justice for these crimes. President Obama is addressing this problem just as he prepares to leave office in 2017.

Award season is officially underway for the arts, and some of our favorite films, television shows, and actors and actresses are finally getting the recognition they deserve. But one film is noticeably missing. Though initially predicted to be both a box office hit and a strong contender for awards, Nate Parker’s “Birth Of A Nation” […]

Michael Slager’s case after murdering Walter Scott was deemed a mistrial on Monday when a jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision. This left a lot of questions in the air, the most prominent being what exactly has to happen for a police officer to be found guilty of killing a person of color? Because […]

While discussing “cultural differences” on “The Graham Norton Show,” half-woke starlet Jennifer Lawrence proved once again that the limits of White Feminism are vast. She joked, and even seemed to have a whole comedy routine ready, about her desecration of sacred rocks in Hawaii while filming one of the Hunger Games films.

Last week, amidst all the drama about Mike Pence being booed at Hamilton, white collar criminal and President Elect Donald Trump settled his fraud case in which he was facing three lawsuits, two in California, as well as charges from New York’s State Attorney General. He paid $25 million to his former “students” who had […]

Bill Cosby has been accused of rape by dozens of women but only a handful of them will be able to take any kind of legal action due to statute of limitations that legally absolves rapists of any accountability of their crime(s) after a specified amount of time has passed. If that sounds like a […]