King Center Accuses Atlanta Leadership For Ignoring Community Opposition Against Cop City
Atlanta’s Cop City has become a controversial subject for activists and civil rights organizations within the city. Costing $90 million...
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Aug 14, 20231 min read
Black Man Forcefully Arrested While Holding Baby At Applebee’s By Kenosha Police
Many civil rights activists in Kenosha,Wisconsin are speaking out following the release of a video shared throughout social media showing...
Aug 14, 20232 min read
Mug Shots Of The "Goon Squad" Revealed Plus New Details On Past Coverups and Deaths
Following the guilty plea from Mississippi Police Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Daniel Opdyke, and...
Aug 11, 20231 min read
GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Juneteenth Holiday ‘Useless’
Vivek Ramaswamy, a GOP presidential candidate, sparked controversy by suggesting the cancellation of Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating...
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Genomics Reveals Connection Of Enslaved Iron Workers To 40,000 Descendants
Researchers have utilized DNA obtained from the remains of 27 individuals buried in a cemetery for enslaved people at Catoctin Furnace, a...
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Black Man Gets 10-Year Sentence Vacated & New Trial After Judge He “Looks Like A Criminal”
An appellate court has overturned the conviction of Leron Liggins, a Black man sentenced to more than 10 years in prison on drug charges...
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Signs Racism Free School Act Into Law
Illinois governor JB Pritzker recently signed the Racism Free School Act (Senate Bill 90) which was filed by Representative Maurice West...
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Compared to Other Groups, Black Veterans Are Denied Benefits At Higher Rates
Following World War II, politicians made sure the New Deal helped as few Black veterans as possible by denying them GI Bill benefits....
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Appointee to DeSantis Once Taught That White People Were Slaves In America
Controversial Florida governor Ron DeSantis replaced five people on the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District earlier this year...
Aug 10, 20231 min read
Pregnant Black Woman Arrested & Detained Over Facial Recognition Mismatch
Porcha Woodruff is suing the city of Detroit and a police officer for being falsely arrested while eight months pregnant over facial...
Aug 10, 20231 min read
Ex-Head of Police Sergeants Union Edward Mullins Will Serve 2 Years For Fraud Charge
Controversial former Head of Police Sergeants Union Edward Mullins just received two years in federal prison alongside restitution fines...
Aug 9, 20231 min read
The Autopsy Initiative Intake Process
Our #AutopsyInitiative is committed to ensuring transparency and justice by providing a second autopsy free-of-charge for victims’...
Aug 9, 20232 min read
Los Angeles Black & Brown Citizens Are Hit Hardest By Pollution Due To White & Affluent Drivers
No doubt that Los Angeles is one of the most polluted cities in the nation. It also doesn’t help that areas that feature a high...
Aug 8, 20231 min read
22-year-old Hedi Beaten By French Police Enough For Skull Damage
In a new interview with French media outlet Konbini, 22-year-old Marseille, France assistant restaurant manager Hedi described being...
Aug 7, 20231 min read
Six Former Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Plead Guilty To Sexually Assaulting Two Black Men
Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield all pleaded guilty recently to an...
Aug 7, 20231 min read
Biotech Company Settles With The Family of Henrietta Lacks Over Exploitation Of Her Cells
Waltham, Massachusetts-based biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., has settled with the descendants of Henrietta Lacks over the...
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Charges Dropped Against Five Officers Accused Of Killing 15-year-old Boy With 13 Bullets
Oklahoma District Attorney Vicki Behenna dropped charges against seven police officers in three separate fatal shootings from 2020. One...
Aug 4, 20231 min read
How Four Black Baltimore Girls Are Helping To Fight Food Deserts
Areas that have poor access to health and affordable foods are commonly known as food deserts. Though there are many causes to the issue...
Aug 3, 20232 min read
A Black Neighborhood in South Carolina Is Being Disrupted By Highway Project
Governments in states like California, Louisiana, Florida, New York and more have historically used highway building or expansions to...
Aug 2, 20231 min read
Black Family Held At Gunpoint By Law Enforcement Over Identification Error
A Black family including a husband, wife and two young boys were held at gunpoint by Frisco, Texas law enforcement in mid-July over a...
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