Cook County prosecutors decided to not press charges againstĀ Officer Robert Rialmo for shooting Qunitonio LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor Bettie Smith, 55, the day after Christmas in 2015.Ā
As expected, Martellus Bennett was the first domino to fall in what could be an ongoing series during the Trump administration. After winning the Super Bowl this past Sunday, Bennett told the press he wouldn’t join his teammates on the standard visit to the White House to meet and pose with the president. Defensive back […]
It has only been 9 days since President Obama left office and a new administration took over in his place. Since then, Trump has signed a number of executive ordersĀ including but not limited to: an order starting the process to create a wall on the US-Mexico border, an order seeking the “prompt repeal of the […]
Hold on to your pocketbooks.Ā Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 25th to initiate building a wall on the border of the United States. What’s worse? Republicans in Congress are going to designate taxpayer dollars to fund it. You heard that right–the money you work for, day in and day out, is going towards […]
Days after clinching the U.S. presidency in November, Donald Trump appointed Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his pick for Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice. From stating he was once “okay with the Ku Klux Klan” until he learned they smoked marijuana, to prosecuting Black activists in the decades following the fall of […]
Seeing a movie costs money. Multiplying thatĀ cost to cover an entire family tripĀ can quickly turn a trip to the show into an inconvenience.Ā
Barack Obama has already commuted more prison sentences than any other U.S. President. However, he’s not finished doing so with only a few days left in his term.Ā President Obama has commuted the prison sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar LĆ³pez Rivera, among more than 200 others.Ā
The El Cajon, Calif. police officer who fatally shot Alfred Olango, who was unarmed and under clear mental distress, will not face criminal charges.Ā
A Dairy Queen in Zion, Ill. has been shut down after its owner went on a racist rant targeted at a black woman and her children.Ā
Access to healthcare for women and transgender folks continues to come under fire in the United States in the name of religious freedom.
One of the centralĀ issues on the Democratic platform isĀ making free college education a reality. The national student loan debt is already massive and doesn’t look to disappear anytime soon, and a large part of that is because college tuition prices are only going up. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who some see as a […]
The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission has filed a restraining order against Black Lives Matter Los Angeles activistĀ Trevor Gerard.Ā
