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“Officer who walked into wrong apartment and killed man faces arrest”. The headline states that the officer who killed Botham Jean mistakenly went into the “wrong apartment” as if it is fact. On the actual page, it adds “: Authorities” so at least you know who is behind what is taken as fact. It’s not […]

A group of activists who stopped traffic ahead of the Dallas Cowboys game to protest police violence on Sunday night were arrested and hit with a misdemeanor obstructing traffic charge. The group, dubbed the Dallas 9, was originally part of a larger demonstration against recent episodes of police brutality in the Dallas area.

A two-week run of terror has finally ended after police apprehended 35-year-old Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the United States Border Patrol and charged him with the murders of 4 women who were all sex workers. Police were tipped off when a fifth would-be victim escaped from Ortiz at a Texas gas station.

by Andrew Keahey There are a lot of slasher movies to choose from. After the release of Halloween in 1987, horror was never really the same. The masked murderer picking off unwitting teenagers and twenty-somethings ended up becoming a cultural staple. People that don’t even watch horror movies know what names to say when they […]

Rahm Emmanuel is not running for mayor of Chicago for the first time in over a decade. Emmanuel cites wanting to go down a different path as the reason for his abrupt exit, but the reality may be more complicated than that. Political insiders note that Emmanuel would be facing a tremendous challenge this election […]

9-year-old Jamel Myles committed suicide just four days into the school year after being bullied by his fourth-grade classmates for being gay, his mother says. Myles’ mother, Leia Pierce, found him dead in their Colorado home. Denver authorities determined the cause of death was suicide.

Jamal Knox, a 24-year-old Black rapper, was found guilty of making direct threats towards police in a new song by Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday after an appeal.

According to the Guardian, August 21st marks the beginning of a nineteen-day protest and labor stoppage across the prison populations of American prisons in at least 17 states. The protest, which has largely been organized by the prisoners themselves, is designed to disrupt the system of unpaid labor many prisons in America rely upon to stay […]

By Teju Adisa-Farrar When God made mountains He made runaway slaves — Nikki Giovanni, Chasing Utopia We were not supposed to survive. Last month, AfroPunk published an article about Argentina’s genocide of their Black populations. Unsurprisingly, Argentina is not much different from other countries who have tried to erase their Black populations or their impact […]

The second anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally saw about two dozen white nationalists in Washington D.C. While the 2017 rally resulted in the death of an anti-racist protestor, counter-protesters vastly outnumbered the crowd of white nationalists this year. During the first “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a white nationalist drove towards […]

Black Lives Matter Sacramento protesters recently crashed the wedding of a Sacramento police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark. In a video clip of the protest, they can be heard asking calling the unnamed officer a murderer. The group obtained the address to the venue using the website which the […]

17-year-old Palestinian resistance activist Ahed Tamimi was released from prison on Sunday by Israeli forces. Tamimi was arrested and served an eight-month sentence after a video of her slapping Israeli soldiers went viral. Her case received international condemnation and sparked countless protests.