This past Tuesday, 31-year-old Palestinian American Ferguson activist, Bassem Masri, died. Most well-known for his live streams of the Ferguson uprising after the murder of Michael Brown, Masri’s death struck a chord with many activists commemorating his life.
According to CNN, the family of a Honduran woman who fled her home country to seek asylum in the United States says she was physically abused while in the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) before she died. Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez entered ICE custody on May 13th after crossing the San […]
Samuel Little, a boxer who traveled the nation abusing and killing women, is now saying he killed at least 90 women from 1970 to 2005. Little’s victims were always women sex workers and drug addicts. In his own words, he targeted “women that wouldnāt be missed.”
On Thursday night, a gunman opened fire in the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Alabama during the first of its Black Friday sales. According to several outlets, the shooting resulted in two injured and the gunman dead.
Following a November 4th, 2017 meeting at a swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Saudi Arabian capital of Ridayh, allegations of coercion, torture and blackmail at the meeting have followed the Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman. U.S. officials say that Salman turned the high-class hotel into a prison for rival royals, government officials, and some […]
I don’t know for sure if my family knows I’m not straight, and yet I suspect they somehow knew before I did. My family, who policed my lack of femininity growing up, and punished me for being a Tomboy. Who teased me for being a āPlain Jane.ā Who asked for years when I was going […]
Around 4 p.m. on Sunday, a person with a gun shot four bullets into the Volusia County Republican Party office in South Daytona, Florida. No was killed or injured, but many feel this is yet another example of the uniquely heated political climate ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
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 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 […]
Six years ago, Florida’s Biscayne Police Department had become so adept at solving burglaries that the local word was all it took for them to solve cases was the stroke of a pen. Claiming a 100% clearance on all burglary cases, the Police Chief at the time, Raimundo Atesaino, even went on record saying at […]
by Roni Dean-Burren Itās the most wonderful time of the year! Itās back to school season and Iām ecstatic. My friends and family are posting photos of their kids in their full backpacks with new shoes and grinning faces as they head back to 187 days of learning bliss. In the midst of all this […]
According to a report from Reuters, the United States government is attempting to force Facebook to decrypt its Messenger application when individuals are under a criminal probe so that they can listen to the suspectās voice conversations in search of illegal activity. This brings forth the issue of whether or not companies can be forced […]
