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St. Paul Police Officer Urges People to Run Over BLM Protestors
The St. Paul Minnesota Police Department has placed an officer on leave while it looks into claims that he has put on Facebook telling drivers to run over protestors who advocated against the police killings of two black men in 2015.
NYC teacher files suit for being fired for teaching about the Central Park Five
One Manhattan high school has made clear not all lessons are worth learning, particularly those that highlight the fallacies of the criminal justice system. According to New York Daily News, Jeena Lee-Walker filed suit against the Department of Education and school administrators on Friday for being fired for teaching her students about the Central Park […]
Baltimore officer ordered to testify against officer charged with murder of Freddie Gray
One witness’s testimony in the trial against Officer Caesar R. Goodson for the death of Freddie Gray may reconfigure the legal right not to self-incriminate.
A tearful President Obama puts the right to life over the right to bear arms
In his final year in the White House, President Barack Obama is showing that, when it comes to gun control, he is no longer willing to wait around and play politics.
Steph Curry joins other NBA stars in gun safety campaign
Some of our favorite sports stars are redirecting their passion on-the-court to major off-the-court issues. Through a partnership between Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun safety advocacy group, and the NBA, basketball stars like Steph Curry, Chris Paul, and Carmelo Anthony, are working on an ad-campaign to bring awareness to gun violence and the stories […]
ICYMI: Virginia schools closed after Arabic calligraphy lesson
Islamophobia shut down schools in Central Virginia after a teacher incorporated Arabic calligraphy into her lesson plan.
Reproductive Justice Matters
Monica Raye Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, explains why reproductive justice is a black issue.
KKK leaflets found on front lawns of residents for second time
For the second time in two months, Randolph County residents found Ku Klux Klan leaflets on their driveways.
Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.
The following piece is from Washington Post. It was written by Carol Anderson. By: Carol Anderson When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an […]
CAN RAPPING HARD BARS LAND YOU BEHIND THEM?
Can an ambiguous California law created in 2000 turn rap lyrics into evidence for conviction? Recently an African American rapper and Southern California resident is currently behind bars awaiting trial. The rapper in question, Brandon Duncan a.k.a. Tiny Doo, is facing life in prison not for rape, drug trafficking, or murder, but for the lyrical […]
Pennsylvania family files lawsuit against cops who invaded their home
A Pennsylvania couple is suing three police officers who they say invaded their home on Feb. 22. Kia Gaymon, 38, and her husband Michael, 35 of Collingdale, filed a lawsuit against the borough as well as three police officers.
Feature: We still lie about slavery, Here’s the truth about how the American economy and power were built on forced migration and torture
The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Edward E. Baptist. By: Edward E. Baptist Excerpted from “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” 1937 A beautiful late April day, seventy-two years after slavery ended in the United States. Claude Anderson parks his car on the side of Holbrook […]