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A court jury found Northern California sheriff’s deputies guilty of wrongly detaining a Black family at a Starbucks. They were granted $8.25 million in compensation for the injustice detention. According to NBC News, Aasylei Loggervale and her two daughters, Aaottae Loggervale and Aasylei Hardge-Loggervale, went to Starbucks located in Castro Valley in September 2019, which is located […]
Over the weekend, a group of Black women accused Chris Brown of discrimination, alleging the singer only allows white women into his VIP section at the club. One of the women took to social media on Saturday to express her frustration with Breezy, who allegedly banned all Black women from entering his section at a London nightclub. […]
Ronald Green didn’t make it home on May 10, 2019 when he was pulled over by state troopers in Louisiana after failing to stop for a traffic violation. He was a 49-year-old Black man. When footage of the incident was released to the public, the police said that it was ‘unauthorized’ due to a pending […]
A BYU fan has been banned after directing racial slurs toward a Duke volleyball player during their match on Friday in Provo, Utah. The accusation first surfaced on Twitter when user Lesa Pamplin said her goddaughter was called the n-word. “I’m looking at you BYU,” she wrote. “You allowed this racist behavior to continue without intervening.” […]
At around 6 a.m. on May 13, 1985, tear gas and water hoses created a diversion in a row home in the west section of Philadelphia. News reports stated that the blaze burned for an hour and a half, before the police called in the fire department. Several Black children were killed that day and […]
A proposal to teach slavery to second graders in Texas as ‘involuntary relocation’ has been struck down in a unanimous decision by the State Board of Education. The proposal was put together by a group of nine educators including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, according to the Texas Tribune […]
After 24 years on the job in law enforcement, Officer Bruce Dyker has resigned. He’s tired of all the “scrutiny” he’s been receiving for, as his union puts it, “doing his job.” Dyker is white. John Catanzara, head of the Chicago Police Union said Dyker was unjustly targeted, per Atlanta Black Star. “Bruce […]
Disney+ last week announced the cast for its upcoming adaption of Rick Riordan’s best-selling fantasy novels Percy Jackson and the Olympians, with Walker Scobell set to star as the titular character alongside Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries. Simhadri will play Grover while Jeffries will play Annabeth, friends of Percy. Since the announcement, some Percy Jackson fans have complained […]
Bianca Lyons goes back to that same hospital room in Virginia every time she tells what happened to her and her baby. That day, eight doctors, nurses, and her husband Will all filled the room. London was there too, but she hadn’t arrived. Her baby’s heart rate dropped seven times before she was delivered. […]
After his death on Dec. 12, Pennsylvania’s Venango County District Attorney Shawn White announced at a press conference on Tuesday that Peter Spencer’s death was a result of self-defense under the state’s stand your ground law. Spencer’s family says they are “not surprised” by the announcement—describing his death as a ‘modern-day lynching.’ When Spencer’s […]
