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Pete Carroll has called on white Americans to do more in the fight for racial equality. The Seahawks head coach made the plea during a 14-minute speech on Saturday, after canceling the team’s practice so all his players could register to vote. Carroll explained that political engagement was key in ensuring the country moves in the right direction, […]
Prosecutors plan to seek a harsher sentence for ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is one of four charged for the murder of George Floyd. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison informed Judge Peter Cahill of his decision to ask for a more severe punishment against Chauvin due to a […]
Fred VanVleet cut a disconsolate figure. Norman Powell could barely find the words to start but then aired out all his frustrations. Pascal Siakam refuses to watch the video of Jacob Blake getting shot seven times because he’s still traumatized by the murder of George Floyd. After the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics were the […]
Protests denouncing police brutality against unarmed Black men and women are continuing across the country following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin this past Sunday. The latest in a seemingly endless list of these senseless murders has resulted in a variety of powerful demonstrations, such as NBA players refusing to play playoff games and Black […]
Jacob Blake‘s father says his son is handcuffed to a hospital bed, as he recovers from a police shooting that reportedly left him paralyzed from the waist down. “I hate it that he was laying in that bed with the handcuff onto the bed,” Blake’s dad—also named Jacob Blake—told the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday. “He can’t go anywhere. Why do […]
The internet is full of assholes, but today Schoolboy Q decided to not allow a distasteful tweet go without response. In the wake of a police officer shooting Jacob Blake in the back seven times, a right wing troll decided to comment that Blake was a criminal under Schoolboy’s tweet. Schoolboy decided to respond to the […]
Kenny “The Jet” Smith walked off the set of Inside the NBA Wednesday to show solidarity with the players who decided to boycott tonight’s slate of games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake. “I think the biggest thing now, as a Black man, as a former player, I think it’s best for me to support […]
The Milwaukee Bucks have started a movement. One day after Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet and Norm Powell revealed that the team was considering a boycott of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Boston Celtics on Thursday in wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Bucks decided to not show up for warmups prior to Game […]
The name of Jacob Blake’s shooter has been released. According to the Associated Press, the Wisconsin Department of Justice has identified Rusten Sheskey as the Kenosha police officer who shot Blake in the back on Aug. 23. The 29-year-old sustained seven gun wounds and is now reportedly paralyzed. Sheskey, who has been with the police department for […]
Hundreds of protestors took the Louisville streets Tuesday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed by police more than five months ago. The protest marked the conclusion of “BreonnaCon,” a four-day “community convention that aimed to raise more awareness about Taylor’s case and other issues facing Louisville. The event was put together by social […]
