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Earlier this week, a jury convicted three Black LGBTQ protesters, who are part of a group called the Black Pride 4, in connection with a June 2017 Columbus Pride parade. According to Columbus Alive, the protesters stood in the street to disrupt the Columbus Pride parade. They hoped to “to raise awareness about the violence against and […]

As Americans continue grappling with rampant sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexual abuse of vulnerable populations by people with situational dominance, another reminder to protect children from adult monsters came late last week. A jury convicted 38-year-old Jelani Maraj of endangering the welfare of a child and predatory sexual assault on a child younger than […]

O.J. Simpson has been granted parole and could be out of prison as soon as Oct. 1.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pointedly undoing the progress that anti-prison and criminal justice reform advocates have worked for over the years.

A Minnesota man was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Hennepin County for shooting at a group of Black Lives Matter protestors in 2015. 

16-year-old Amy Joyner-Francis was attacked by a group of classmates in a girls bathroom of a Delaware high school in April 2016. She died soon after because of an undiagnosed heart condition. A judge has made a ruling on the teenage girls who were responsible for the fatal attack that day. 

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.

A group of terrorists – because that’s exactly what they are – are now seeing the consequences of their actions after targeting a child’s birthday party with Confederate flags, threats and firearms. 

In a sign of things to come for Black communities under the new administration, President Trump threatened federal intervention to address the “carnage” that is Chicago’s gun violence in a tweet last Tuesday night: If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible “carnage” going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I […]

Dylann Roof offered the first words many have ever heard him say since he was arrested in 2015 during the opening statements of his sentencing trial. Roof, who killed nine black people during a prayer service in Charleston in June 2015, showed no inclination of remorse and chose to try and justify rather than apologize […]

It’s time we have a serious conversation about what it means when white people offer disingenuous apologies to Black people they have harmed while expecting absolution and exoneration from those very same people. Last week, news broke that a 79-year-old Trump supporter named John Franklin McGraw, who was seen on video elbowing a young Black anti-Trump […]

Donald Trump galvanized millions of voters in America behind his promise to not only build a wall along the US-Mexico border, but to deport millions of undocumented citizens as well. However, those plans have hit the first of a suspected many snags to come. The Los Angeles Police Department has declared that they won’t play […]