Tennessee’s Education Department Under Legal Fire From Teachers Association For Restrictive Lessons
Florida isn’t the only state facing scrutiny for its governor-led changes to its educational system. Tennessee also restricted how...
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Aug 1, 20231 min read
Preliminary Findings From The Autopsy Initiative
Our Autopsy Initiative is committed to ensuring transparency and justice by providing a second autopsy free-of-charge for victims’...
Aug 1, 20232 min read
Legacy Admission Is Next After Supreme Court Gets Rid Of Race Based Affirmative Action
This year’s Supreme Court ruling ridding the country of race-based Affirmative Action may have hurt Black and Brown high school graduates...
May 9, 20232 min read
The NAACP is suing Mississippi over an expanded role for state-run police in Jackson
A state-run police department will return to Mississippi's majority-Black capital with "separate and unequal policing," according to the...
May 9, 20232 min read
An NYC woman who ran over BLM protestors avoids prison with a plea bargain
Activists outside Manhattan court berated a Queens woman who used her car to mow down Black Lives Matter protestors during a Midtown...
May 8, 20232 min read
Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book's 'woke concepts' on race
The Republican governor of Alabama Kay Ivey announced on Friday that she had replaced her director of early childhood education over the...
May 5, 20232 min read
Louisville officer who killed Breonna Taylor hired by police force in nearby county
According to local media reports, Myles Cosgrove, who killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020, became a police officer again in a nearby...
May 5, 20232 min read
Jordan Neely, a talentedperformer, killed in a subway chokehold by ex-marine Daniel Penny
Families, friends, and outreach workers remember the 30-year-old Black man who died after another passenger put him in a lethal chokehold...
May 4, 20232 min read
DA will not charge ex-Memphis police officer involved in Tyre Nichols stop
In Shelby County, Tennessee, the district attorney announced Tuesday that it will not file criminal charges against a Memphis police...
May 3, 20232 min read
Officer who held back crowd during George Floyd’s murder convicted of aiding & abetting manslaughter
According to court documents filed Monday, a Minnesota judge convicted former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao of second-degree...
May 2, 20232 min read
Autopsy report reveals "Cop City" activist had 57 gunshot wounds
A newly released autopsy report reveals that the protester killed by Georgia state troopers in January suffered at least 57 gunshot...
May 1, 20231 min read
The Hillsborough NAACP has issued a travel advisory for Florida
Florida's Hillsborough Chapter of the NAACP is working on issuing a travel advisory for the state. The move follows the recent...
Apr 28, 20232 min read
New Orleans senior shatters U.S. record with 125 college offers, $9 million in scholarships
What an amazing accomplishment! Dennis Barnes, a senior at International High School of New Orleans, set a new national scholarship...
Apr 25, 20232 min read
Tennessee Air National Guardsman applied to be a hit man on a website - and got arrested, FBI says
Federal charges are pending against a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in Tennessee after he sent a resume to a site with a nefarious...
Apr 24, 20232 min read
The state of Texas takes control of Houston Independent School District
Among the largest school districts in Texas and the nation, Houston Independent School District, said Wednesday that it will replace its...
Apr 21, 20232 min read
80-year-old segregation wall finally comes down in Baltimore
A massive red brick wall has dominated Hillen Road near Morgan State University's entrance for more than 80 years. Many people viewed it...
Apr 21, 20232 min read
Kansas City police announce two felony charges against accused white shooter who shot Black teen
Early Monday evening, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced that Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white homeowner,...
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Oklahoma county leaders caught on audio complaining they can no longer lynch Black people
Several top officials in a rural county have been called to resign by the governor of Oklahoma after they were recorded discussing...
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Tyre Nichols’ family sues Memphis police over beating, death
On Wednesday, the family of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers, sued them and the city of...
Apr 20, 20232 min read
A man died after being "eaten alive" by bugs in a filthy jail cell in Atlanta, his family says
The family of an Atlanta man claims the man was eaten alive by bed bugs in a local jail. Lashawn Thompson, 35, died as a result of bed...
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