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More details released about Minnesota cop shooting of Justine Ruszczyk
Police Officer Mohamed Noor in Minneapolis has been using his constitutional right to remain silent following the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk, forcing many to turn elsewhere for answers as to what happened.
Reflections on my thirty-four years as a Black man with mental illness
By Kelvin Easiley, Jr July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. This is the time when a laser focus is trained on the various complexities people of color encounter while facing mental health stigma and a shoddy healthcare system.The same healthcare system many people of color approach with grave skepticism. There are many people […]
Abusive Chicago Officer George Granias owned racist websites
A Chicago police officer’s skeletons are becoming public after a quick Google search revealed that he hosted a number of racially insensitive websites, according to the Daily Beast.
Police beat teenage girl they mistook for a grown male suspect
Police in Bakersfield, California are under fire because they not only beat a suspect and allowed a dog to attack them, but they had the wrong suspect to begin with.
Parents accuse R. Kelly of holding daughter and other women in abusive cult
R. Kelly has been accused of hosting an abusive cult where he manipulates young women into living on his property and only eating, bathing, leaving and having sex with him on his orders. Buzzfeed made the shocking revelations on Monday morning when it published a thorough report entitled “Inside the Pied Piper of R&B’s ‘Cult’.”
Racist Airbnb host to pay $5,000 for refusing to rent cabin to Asian American student
Dyne Suh was on her way up to a cabin in Big Bear, California when the owner decided to refuse the accommodation. Why? Because she refused to rent to “foreigners” and this is “why we have Trump.”
Teenager plays iconic ‘F–k tha Police’ song during funeral for murdered NYPD officer
Thousands of police officers had gathered for the funeral of Officer Miosotis Familia in New York when they heard a song they surely all know too well. A teenager in an apartment a few floors above took the opportunity to blast the N.W.A. classic “F–k tha Police” on repeat in an act of protest against […]
Trans Woman Eyricka King Assaulted And Denied Assistance While Held In Prison
Eyricka King, a transgender woman, had tried multiple times to get a letter out to her mother Kelly Harrison detailing her horrific experiences in prison. Her story has now gone viral after Harrison recorded a video reading from King’s letter and speaking on her daughters behalf.
Florida womens’ prison goes without water and air conditioning
A storm knocked out the water and air conditioning in Florida’s oldest women’s prison this weekend and the headaches have continued ever since. Employees and family members of inmates have come out with stories that women were forced to wash with still toiler bowl water and weren’t getting enough to drink while the damages were […]
Two Florida cops get schooled after pulling over first Black woman state attorney
Two Orlando police officers had no idea what they were in for when they pulled over a driver on June 19. A brief clip of footage from a body camera from one of the officers has been made public and revealed that the driver was none other than Aramis Ayala, the first and only Black […]
California bill would require police to turn in body camera footage after shootings
Body cameras have been at the center of a heated debate regarding police accountability and it doesn’t appear to be letting up anytime soon.
Couple adopts seven siblings to keep the family together
Opening up your home to a child who’s looking for family is one of the most compassionate things a person can do. But doing so for seven children to keep them all together as a family is on another level. That’s exactly what Dashoan and Sofia Olds did when they went from having no children to […]