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George Floyd began fearing for his life as soon as officers approached him on the night of his death. According to bodycam transcripts obtained by TMZ, former Minneapolis officer Thomas Lane confronted Floyd in a car and immediately demanding the 46-year-old Black man to show his hands. Floyd started apologizing to Lane, insisting he was nervous due […]
I am one-quarter black, and I grew up in King’s Lynn—a town not too far from Cambridge. My grandad is from Trinidad and Tobago and my great-grandmother was Venezuelan, but pretty much the rest of my family is white British, so I’m quite light in complexion. I have what would be considered “white” features, so especially when my hair […]
Even Don Lemon is trying to stop Terry Crews. Crews, amid backlash for a number of tweets where he criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, decided to go on CNN and defend himself. “Are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No,” the America’s Got Talent host tweeted on Saturday. “I stand […]
A man and woman were confronted as they were painting over a Black Lives Matter mural in front of the county courthouse in Martinez, California. In the video, the pair can be seen arguing with others who are trying to prevent them from painting over the yellow mural, which the city had given activists permission to paint. […]
As the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless others have sparked a global uprising against racial injustice, protesters have revisited another avenue to push the agenda—Black capitalism. On July 7, 2020, #BlackoutDay2020 aims to unite Black people in economic solidarity through a campaign encouraging participants to support Black-owned businesses exclusively. Similar digital […]
Three Colorado police officers have been fired for taking a selfie reenacting the murder of Elijah McClain. The Aurora Police Department previously put the officers on paid leave pending an internal investigation. During a news conference, interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson displayed the photos where officers Jaron Jones, Erica Marrer, and Kyle Dittrich demonstrated a […]
Hannibal Buress returns with his first comedy special in four years, Miami Nights, premiering via YouTube live stream. The special comes three years after the Chicago native’s 2017 arrest by Miami police for alleged “disorderly conduct.” Buress uses this special to discuss his experience in Miami, alongside the backdrop of a national and international conversation around police brutality and the Black […]
Claudia Conway is putting her conservative parents on blast. The 15-year-old garnered headlines this week for a series of viral TikTok videos in which she advocated for social justice and slammed Donald Trump. It was particularly notable, as Claudia is the daughter of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and anti-Trump conservative, George Conway. “I grew up in a […]
The NFL is reportedly taking additional steps to express solidarity with the Black community. A source recently told The Undefeated that the league has plans to play “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”—a song commonly known as the Black national anthem—before every 2020 Week 1 game; the first of which will go down Sept. 10 with the Kansas City Chiefs and the […]
Donald Trump has launched another attack on the growing movement for racial justice. On Wednesday, the president took to Twitter to slam the Black Lives Matter sign that will be painted along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, right outside Trump Tower. POTUS specifically took aim at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for supporting the proposed […]
