A viral video showing a 12-year-old boy being arrested for recklessly riding a bike has stirred outrage and raised questions about why police felt they needed to go so far as to charge the boy. A roughly one-minute clip posted to TikTok shows a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, explaining to a bystander the Read More…
A Black woman from Louisiana spent six days in jail on child neglect charges after Shreveport police officers discovered insects inside her apartment after she called them for help over another issue. But the charges were dismissed when Calvinitri White proved she had been trying for months to get the apartment management to address the roach issue Read More…
Houston residents launched their own ‘Scooby-Doo’ style investigations to find an unconfirmed ‘serial killer’ after the discovery of six bodies since September 15 bringing the total found in the city’s bayous area to 22 this year. Rumors of a mystery mass murderer came to a peak in the community in late September after officials announced that five Read More…
A teacher sparked furious backlash after sharing a video of her singing Happy Birthday to a black child that included the lyrics ‘you look like a monkey.’ Footage circulated on social media this week of the staff member leading her class through a rendition of the traditional version of the celebratory tune. After they finished, Read More…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (officers take a knee with demonstrators, as they march on Pennsylvania Ave. on Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Washington, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes.© Jose Luis Magana/AP The FBI has fired Read More…
President Donald Trump could be close to taking over the Federal Reserve. On September 9, a federal district judge blocked Trump’s effort to remove Lisa Cook as a Federal Reserve governor; on Thursday, the administration petitioned the Supreme Court to allow the firing to go through. If the high court ends up siding with the administration, then Read More…
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