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Two women have been critically injured in Seattle amid protests in the city after a 27-year-old man drove his car toward a panicked crowd. The Associated Press reports that the two women, 24-year-old Summer Taylor and 32-year-old Diaz Love, were hit by Dawit Kelete, who drove his car around vehicles blocking the closed highway, Interstate 5. He […]
More than a dozen protestors were arrested Friday afternoon after blocking a highway leading to Mount Rushmore. The demonstration began several hours before Donald Trump would arrive at the national monument, where he was slated to lead a kick-off event for Independence Day weekend. Photos of the protests show local police and National Guard members responding to the […]
Police in Seattle have cleared out the city’s ‘autonomous zone’ and arrested over 30 protesters following an executive order from Mayor Jenny Durkan. ABC News reports that the “occupied” zone, which has been dubbed the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, was cleared by police on Wednesday. The order from Durkan came after four shootings, two of which […]
To be Black in America is to live through a continuous cycle of exhaustion—from slavery to civil rights to Black men and women being killed at the hands of police and even the plague of grind culture fueled by Western values. We’re tired, literally. In the midst of the pandemic, Black and brown people, who […]
Though news coverage may have unfortunately waned in recent days, protests continue across the country as activists young and old continue to push for social justice with an emphasis on eradicating police brutality. And as the country saw with the police murder of George Floyd, these all-too-routine instances of fatal brutality at the hands of […]
A man was fatally shot during a demonstration where many had met to protest Breonna Taylor‘s death. Tyler Charles Gerth was killed on Saturday night at a park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the New York Times reports. Police have apprehended a suspect who was hospitalized following the shooting, according to interim Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder. Police […]
On Monday night, protesters gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square and attempted to remove a statue of the slaveholder Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S., but were unsuccessful. They used rope, which they tied to the statue, to try and pull it down. The bronze statue of Jackson was made by sculptor Clark Mills and […]
Toronto’s APB recently dropped a rousing music video for their new single “Change the Vibration.” Watch it above. The frenetic track, featuring an odd time signature and high-energy bars about shifting frequencies, comes with equally spirited visuals, jumping back and forth between shots of Black Lives Matter protests and APB performing on stage and in industrial areas. “‘Change […]
As the death of George Floyd has sparked ongoing protests across the nation, the phrase “Black lives matter” has become a cultural divider amid growing conversations about social injustices, systemic racism, and police brutality. Now, it appears that Mike Pence is yet another individual who, unsurprisingly, refuses to utter the phrase. In an interview with […]
The North Face has become one of the biggest brands to join the latest advertising boycott against Facebook due to the company’s inaction towards Donald Trump’s racist, inflammatory and violence-inciting posts on their platforms. “We’re in. We’re Out,” North Face tweeted on their official account on Friday afternoon in response to a tweet with a quote […]
