According to NBC News, Larry D. Woodruffe, one of two men accused of shooting and killing 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in late December and charged with capital murder, is declaring his innocence. This week, Woodruffe told police that he was not involved in the murder of Barnes, and the only thing that connected him to the […]
Editorās Note: This essay contains discussions of childhood sexual violence I didnāt order that extra whiskey ginger last week. I went home when my body told me to, even though it was still early and my friends were still partying. I rested when I got sick, or as much as I possibly could without missing […]
According to the Houston Chronicle, a week-long manhunt for the killer of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes has drawn to a conspicuous close as one of the men police say was involved confessed while in police custody. 20-year-old Eric Black Jr. Black described the killing to police officers as a “mistake” and told them that Barnes was […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
āOfficer who walked into wrong apartment and killed man faces arrestā. The headline states that the officer who killed Botham Jean mistakenly went into the āwrong apartmentā 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. Itās 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 withĀ 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.
