black lives matter
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 […]
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 […]
Days after the acquittal of Brett Hankison, the 45-year-old ex-cop who stood trial for firing 10 rounds of bullets into the home of Breonna Taylor, killing her and endangering her neighbors—a new report has come out that says Blacks are still being killed by the police at a higher rate than any other group. In […]
There was no fear in Shantell Field’s voice. The worst had already happened when she found out that her youngest child, Lauren had been pronounced dead days after it actually happened. But as she and her son Lakeem Jetter began to go through the details of what took place afterwards, her tone tightened and a […]
Lauren Smith-Fields would have turned 24 this Sunday. The social media influencer was planning to board a plane to Greece with her grandmother—now a march is taking place in her honor to demand justice for what is being referenced once more as, “missing white woman syndrome.” More importantly, her family is suing the city of […]
Joyce Watkins had been on parole since 2015, but it wasn’t until Wednesday when she was exonerated, that she was truly free. She spent 27 years in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated rape. Watkins is the first Black woman to be exonerated in Tennessee and the third woman in the state’s […]
This past Friday was the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech “I Have a Dream.” The crowd was huge so we hit the streets to ask people if after all this time they felt anything had changed for Black […]
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