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Supreme Court hinders state and local governments’ ability to seize property
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s clause which prohibits excessive financial penalties must be enforced at all levels of government to protect people from harsh government retaliation. It had previously been applied to federal crimes only.
Thurgood Marshall Still Asks Us To Protect The Less Powerful
by Daniel Johnson Thurgood Marshall is arguably the most important figure in modern judicial and legal history. Founder of the Legal Defense Fund as well as its first president and Director-Counsel, the first Black judge to sit on the Second Circuit of Appeals, the first Black Solicitor General, and finally, the first Black Supreme Court […]
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is Holding The Line
By Daniel Johnson Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court and an appointee of former President Joe Biden, has been consistently and sharply breaking with the conservative Supreme Court, utilizing the power afforded through her dissents to issue missives, aiming those arguments at not only the conservative Supreme Court […]
‘Seeking for the Lost’ and the project of finding each other as a misplaced people
by Donnie Moreland “We hummed a celebration for living. For fighting. For refusing to die. For enduring when giving up would be easier. For believing, against all odds, that we’d get home someday.” —The Coming; Daniel Black “It’s nothing like losing one’s keys. It’s not as if he has been misplaced. It’s not as simple […]
FBI is in the process of prosecuting its first ‘Black Identity Extremist’
According to reports from Foreign Policy, the arrest of Christopher Daniels, known in Dallas as Rakem Balogun, on December 12, 2017 has resulted in the FBI’s first known prosecution of any individual suspected as being a Black Identity Extremist. The FBI Counterterrorism unit came up with this designation targeting radical Black activists last year, and […]
We are not yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body
by Tabias Olajuawon This essay contains discussion of racialized sexual violence and anti-Black fetishism “You are not to touch other flesh without a police permit. The State wants to seize your bed And sleep with you… The message is clear: your penis.. your anus, your orgasm, these belong to the state. The erogenous zones are […]
Bundy Family Protests For Release of Arson Prisoners
The three sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, along with “about 150” militiamen, have seized control of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters to protest the forthcoming imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, on the basis that the federal government has no authority in local crimes.
And the Young Ones Shall Lead Them: The Ferguson Rebellion and the Crisis in Black Leadership
The following piece of from EBONY. It was written by Dr. Cornel West and Rev. Osagyeo Sekou. By: Dr. Cornel West and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou The blood of Michael Brown has seeded the soil of a great American revolution—sprouting yearlings of new black leadership onto the political and public landscape. The Ferguson Rebellion has exposed […]
Chicago school named after President Obama
A new selective enrollment high school slated to open in 2017 will be named after President Obama. The Barack Obama College Preparatory High School will enroll 1,200 students from all over the city.
BYP NEWSFLASH: Perry Owns A Ranch Called "NIGGERHEAD," Obama Lookalike in KFC Commerical, Drake's New Video and MORE!
BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH October 3rd, 2011 This current crop of GOP Presidential contenders truly are the gift that keeps on giving. On top of everything else that is utterly ridiculous and absurd about Texas Governor Rick Perry, news broke over the weekend that the Perry family’s West Texas hunting camp once went by the […]