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Two Young Boys Saved A 9-Year-Old Girl From Being Kidnapped
A pair of young boys in Ford Heights, IL are now being credited for saving the life of a 9-year-old girl that was in the middle of a kidnapping by a park district employee. Thanks to them, the girl was safely returned to her family after a presumably traumatizing experience.
‘Out-of-Control’ 8 Year-old Handcuffed, Jailed for Two Hours for Throwing Tantrum
An 8 year-old Illinois girl was handcuffed and jailed for two hours after she allegedly threw a massive tantrum at school. School officials say she was out of control, but is it ever appropriate to handcuff and jail an 8 year-old?
Two Teens Arrested for Instigating and Filming Fight Between Two 7 Year-old Girls
Two teenage girls – 14 and 15 years-old – have been arrested for helping to instigate a fight between two 7 year-olds, filming it, and posting it on the internet. It is believed that they were hoping to get the video featured on WorldStar Hip-Hop.
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 […]
Reflecting on Patrick Chamoiseau’s ‘Slave Old Man’ and physical memories of the enslaved
by Donnie Moreland This essay contains spoilers for Patrick Chamoiseau’s 1997 novel, Slave Old Man The final words of Patrick Chamoiseau’s Slave Old Man read, “Brother, I shouldn’t have, but I touched those bones.” Those bones being, “The clavicles. Some vertebrae. A few formless bits. Porous things. And a broken tibia…” Those bones, as are […]
I’ve been intentionally single for 2 years & it’s the best gift I could give myself in a patriarchal world
Tynesha McCullers In less than a week, I will have been intentionally single for two years. My last relationship lasted almost three years and contained elements of abuse and toxicity that left me both traumatized and pessimistic about the future in regards to relationships. When things ended, I promised myself time for me and only […]
Judge ignores 20 year sentencing guideline, gives former Trump chairman Manafort 4 years
On Thursday, Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to 47 months in prison for bank fraud.
Black man accused of killing 7-year-old after witnesses pointed to white suspect says he’s innocent
According to NBC News, Larry D. Woodruffe, one of two men accused of shooting and killing 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in late December and charged with capital murder, is declaring his innocence. This week, Woodruffe told police that he was not involved in the murder of Barnes, and the only thing that connected him to the […]
Two suspects arrested in murder of Jazmine Barnes, but neither matches witness descriptions
According to the Houston Chronicle, a week-long manhunt for the killer of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes has drawn to a conspicuous close as one of the men police say was involved confessed while in police custody. 20-year-old Eric Black Jr. Black described the killing to police officers as a “mistake” and told them that Barnes was […]
Saudis under fire for using child soldiers from Darfur, offering money for them to fight in Yemen
According to the New York Times, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been engaging in the practice of hiring child soldiers from the Darfur, Sudan region who have already lived through and fought in a civil war in their own country. The article profiles the experience of Hager Shomo Ahmed, a 16-year-old Sudanese boy who […]
Four years removed from his year-long suspension, Adrian Peterson reveals he still hits his children
In a profile on running back Adrian Peterson, who now plays for the team in Washington with the racist name, Bleacher Report‘s Master Tesfatsion reveals that the running back who was infamously suspended following a public child abuse case, has moved from disciplining his children with a switch to disciplining them with a belt as […]
White Kroger shooter who killed two Black people told white bystander, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
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.”