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Fourth Officer To Go To Trial For Freddie Gray’s Death Acquitted On All Charges
This story has been told multiple times now, with the only changes being the name of the officer walking away free and the total number of others that have done the same. The fourth officer involved in the death of Freddie Gray has gone to trial. Three of them have been acquitted while one resulted […]
Movement for Black Lives Yields New Targets of the State
By Lamont Lilly During the height of the Ferguson Rebellion in late summer 2014, youth organizer, Joshua Williams quickly rose to the call of duty. In the aftermath of Officer Darren Wilson’s brutal murder of unarmed Black teenager, Mike Brown, 19-year-old Williams, stepped forward in the most dedicated and courageous way possible – on the front […]
2 Officers Charged With Freddie Gray’s Death Sue Marilyn Mosby
On May 1st, Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby held a press conference where she announced that the six officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray, which lead to his death in their custody, would be brought up on charges. Mosby has been under a microscope as of late due to one of the officers […]
Panther Power: Afeni Shakur and the ‘New York 21’
By Lamont Lilly On April 2, 1969, twenty-one members of the Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party were formally indicted and charged with 156 counts of “conspiracy” to blow up subway and police stations, five local department stores, six railroads, and the Bronx based New York Botanical Garden. By the early morning hours of […]
Black Power: A Q&A With Charlene Carruthers
The office of Black Youth Project 100 is a few blocks from President Barack Obama’s private residence in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The organization’s national director, Charlene Carruthers, like Obama in his younger activist days, is a Chicago community organizer. The similarities may stop there. Indeed, Carruthers has been loudly calling for the resignation of […]
College basketball player dismissed from school for stealing ice cream cone
A University of Maryland basketball player is banned from enrolling in courses after being arrested for stealing an ice cream cone from a convenience store. Trayvon Reed faces charges of second-degree assault, second-degree assault of a police officer, resisting arrest and theft under $100.
As Black & Brown People Continue to be Lynched, Where’s the Outrage?
Another week, another suspicious death of a Black or Brown person at the hands of the police. This time in Durham, North Carolina, where the police department would like us to believe that 17-year-old Jesus Huerta was searched, handcuffed, and placed in the back seat of a police car, and sometime during that ride, while still […]
Conflicting Reports Surrounding Shooting Death of Donte Bennett
A 25-year-old man was shot and killed by police after they chased him down, suspecting that he was about to commit a crime. Donte Bennett was shot after Baltimore police acted on “intelligence” that a crime was about to happen. They chased Bennett into Douglas Homes, an altercation that ended with Bennett’s death:
Black August
Black August, the movement that honors the radical resistance, resilience, and collective action of Afrikan peoples of the Diaspora. From the Haitian Revolution, to Underground Railrooad, to the March on Washington, to the Watts uprisings, people of color have been resisting colonization for centuries.