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At 2:45 p.m. Thursday, Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested after shooting former NFL player Joe McKnight in Louisiana after a road rage incident. The loss was felt by both former teammates, competitors and fans alike. The same can be said for the outrage that followed Gasser’s overnight release from custody with no charges. 

Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was shot by Charlotte police in late September. Officer Brentley Vinson reportedly shot Scott after he allegedly left an SUV in front of his home with a gun in hand and denied orders to drop it. District Attorney Andrew Murray has announced that Vinson would not face any charges in Scott’s death, […]

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has decided to relieve an officer of their police powers after the shooting of Kajuan Raye, 19. 

Racial tensions have been thick since the election of Donald Trump on November 8th. Those individuals who resent marginalized people seem emboldened by the prospects of Trump’s leadership. The shooting death of an unarmed Black teen on the East End of Charleston, West Virginia on Monday is yet another tragic case where racism and violence […]

Philando Castille’s death was live streamed for millions as his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, sat next to him in a car after he was shot by a police officer in Minnesota. It was easily one of the most visible instances of police violence to date. St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, who shot Castille on July […]

The Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot Sylville Smith, 23, has been fired by the police department for an unrelated arrest for sexual assault. He’s been charged with sexual assault, prostitution and capturing an intimate representation without consent and could face up to 80 years in prison.

Now that the debates are over, all that is left in this election cycle is Election Day itself, taking place on November 8th. While I think that everyone who is able should get out and vote, I know that many of us are not exactly overjoyed at either party’s candidate for president. Because we know […]

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, one man decided to do what no one else would. James Otis, dressed as a city worker, located Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and got to work. The public servant was captured on video taking an axe and breaking the star into pieces. He […]

The man who fired a gunshot at George Zimmerman following a road rage incident in May 2015 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Matthew Apperson, 37, a Florida jury found him guilty of attempted second-degree murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle and aggravated assault. According to New York Daily News, 20 years is the minimum mandatory […]

There’s an episode of Law and Order: SVU out there where a young white woman and her boyfriend were looking to cover up a crime by blaming it on “a black guy” they “couldn’t really see”. Fortunately, the detectives caught on early and let them bury themselves in their lies. But it was Detective Fin Tutuola’s […]

Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the fatal arrest of Eric Garner, has been sentenced to four years in prison connected to drug charges and possession of a weapon. According to the New York Daily News, Orta had sold an undercover officer multiple drugs on nine occasions. He was also caught with a .25-caliber handgun. 

The prevalence of violence against young Black people has become a constant phenomenon in American life. While Black folx of all genders face unique struggles with anti-Blackness, police surveillance, and state-sanctioned murder, young Black men are often featured in mainstream media most prominently as victims of these systems and processes of oppression. This poem from Akeem […]