School districts across the country are suddenly wrestling with the same question: Should police officers be in schools? In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Minneapolis schools cut their contract with the local police department. Then Portland did. Then Denver. A majority of the Oakland school board members say they will, too, while Chicago’s school Read More…
Senate Bill 673 “Ebony Alert” System To Report Missing Black Children and Young Women A California legislator proposed a bill to establish an “Ebony Alert” system that would inform people of missing Black children and young women — similar to the Amber Alert. State Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) introduced Senate Bill 673 last week, citing Read More…
n a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, ‘Mrs. Jones, do you know me?’ She responded, ‘Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a boy, and frankly, you’ve been a big disappointment Read More…
Injustice – Black Family Stopped for Tinted Windows And Kids Taken In Georgia On Feb 17, the parents were driving to a funeral in Chicago when Highway Patrol officers in rural Coffee County, Tennessee, pulled them over. Apparently, they had “dark tint[ed windows] and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing,” according to Read More…
NYESHA STONE, THE 26-YEAR-OLD FOUNDER OF CARVD N STONE SHARES WHAT INSPIRED HER JOURNEY TO CREATE A MEDIA COMPANY FOCUSED ON TELLING POSITIVE STORIES ABOUT BLACK COMMUNITIES. For Nyesha00 Stone, meeting a Black newspaper editor during her sophomore year of college in 2016 changed her life. And set her on a path to start her own Read More…
‘Father of the cell phone’ says one day we’ll have devices embedded under our skin Key Points Future generations will have devices “embedded under the skin of their ears,” Marty Cooper, who is widely considered the father of the cell phone, told CNBC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Such devices won’t need to Read More…
