This Friday, April 26, the state of Florida will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, one of three official Confederate anniversaries that linger in state law, relics of Jim Crow. I am not opposed to memorializing people who died in war. Do that any day of the year. Or do it on the nation’s official Memorial Read More…
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RIP Kadarius Smith: From Mississippi Cop Running Over Unarmed Black Teen With Police Car
Source: Xinhua News Agency / Getty There are lingering questions about the death of an unarmed Black teen who was killed last month when a Mississippi police officer’s department-issued cruiser drove over him while he was reportedly being chased for reasons that have still not been made clear. Kadarius Smith died March 21 after an Read More…
Texas High School Suspends Black Student For His Hair Style, Denies Discrimination
Nationwide — Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Texas, has faced suspension twice in a row due to his hairstyle. Despite the state’s recent anti-discrimination legislation, the school argued that it wasn’t an act of discrimination. Darryl reportedly received the suspension for sporting twisted dreadlocks tied atop his head, Read More…
Who is attacking the police training center in Atlanta ‘Cop City’ and why?
Video Dozens arrested after violent attack on Atlanta ‘cop city’ ‘Outnumbered’ panelists sound off after rioters launched an all-out assault against the Atlanta police training facility dubbed ‘cop city’ Vandals in Atlanta hurled bricks and Molotov cocktails at police officers and set cars on fire on Sunday in protest of an 85-acre training complex for Read More…
Archdiocese Adds 42 names To Its list Of Catholic Clergy , Accused Of Sexual Abuse
The Archdiocese of Baltimore added 42 names Friday to its list of church employees who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, including that of a longtime theology dean and professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, the nation’s only Catholic historically Black college. Father Phillip J. Linden began teaching theology at Xavier in 1991, after Read More…
Why Do Inmates Not Try To Prosecute Abusive Prison Guards
Me: The day after I was released. Prove it! If you press the issue(s) once outside, you’ll hear those two words quite frequently. I was diagnosed with a swollen prostate while in prison. I was given a derivative of Flomax to take once daily. Fine. No problem. I did what they asked, and considering my Read More…