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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 […]
Protests against police brutality continued overnight in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The protests began over the weekend after footage began circulating that showed police shooting Jacob Blake Jr. multiple times. Per previously reported witness accounts, Blake was attempting to intervene in an argument between two women when police arrived at the scene. “We all watched the horrific video […]
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 […]
Black people are getting shot in broad daylight in front of their children. But for some reason, Jerry Jones still doesn’t seem to understand the importance of protesting during the National Anthem. On Tuesday, reports surfaced that the Dallas Cowboys owner is contemplating a compromise with players that would allow them to kneel before the National Anthem, but […]
The bubble might be popping, but life outside of the Orlando campus is still in a state of terror. As a result, NBA players and other athletes made it clear that they are on the side of the people. Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot a Black man named Jacob Blake multiple times in the back on Sunday evening. […]
A Black man is in serious condition after being shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Graphic footage, per the Associated Press, shows police shooting at the man’s back seven times as he walked away and got into the driver’s side of an SUV. Following the shooting, which police claim was preceded by their arrival on […]
Team ROC, the social justice-focused division of Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation company, is calling out an ad company for repeatedly declining “on entirely spurious grounds” to accept a billboard campaign about Wisconsin police officer Joseph Mensah. In a letter released on Thursday, the law firm representing Roc Nation said that Lamar Advertising Company’s actions “smack of improper censorship” and […]
More than 100 people were arrested overnight on Sunday and into Monday morning as stores were damaged and looted in Chicago following the police shooting of a man in the Englewood area. “We are waking up in shock this morning,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a press conference. “During the early morning hours of […]
The Daily Mail has obtained police bodycam footage showing a visibly distraught father getting violently dragged away from his six-year-old daughter’s hospital bedside in the North of England by authorities moments after he had been told that she was being taken off of life support. Dr. Rashid Abbasi didn’t want to let go of his daughter Zainab’s […]
In newly surfaced bodycam footage of George Floyd’s fatal arrest in Minneapolis in May, he can be heard pleading for the officers to not shoot him. Shared by British tabloid the Daily Mail, the footage comes from two of the officers charged with Floyd’s murder, Thomas Lane and Alex Kueng. It was originally viewed at the Hannepin County […]
