If the gun legislation goes into law, it would signal a turn from years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress Senate bargainers announced a bipartisan framework Sunday responding to last month’s mass shootings, a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health…
In an interview with theGrio, Patience Murray chronicles her recovery from a mass shooting at a popular gay club in 2016 Six years ago, a girls’ night out for then-20-year-old Patience Carter and her friends at Pulse Nightclub ended in a deadly mass shooting. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old man, on June 12, 2016 brought an…
“The entire global sport community needs to come together to insist that she be a priority,” Australian retired basketball player Penny Taylor says Penny Taylor used her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame to call for the release of her former WNBA Phoenix Mercury teammate Brittney Griner, noting it’s been 114 days since the…
A new consultant and a data analyst will help pinpoint inequities faced by Oakland residents The Oakland, California city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to recognize racism as a public health crisis and approve a $350,000 boost in funding for racial equity staffing. With the council’s approval, two new employees will be hired to support…
A Chicago man is being heralded as a hero after saving a man from being electrocuted after he fell into subway tracks and landing on the third rail. The real-life Superman, who secured the victim and risked being harmed himself, administered CPR in an effort to resuscitate him after the horrific accident. Anthony Perry shocked…
Wilbur Jackson was the first Black scholarship football player at the University of Alabama in 1969 before having an eight-year career in the NFL Less than an hour before the premiere of the documentary Quiet Pioneer: The Wilbur Jackson Story, co-producers Jon Nelson and Phil Cantor didn’t try to hide their emotions. “I am a…
Source: Leigh Vogel / Getty Still unnerved by the deadly mass shootings in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and at a school in Uvalde, Texas, in particular, what seemed like millions of people this weekend took to America’s streets as part of the March For Our Lives protests that sprinkled the country in an…
The second annual ‘Juneteenth 2022: Freedom Songs’ playlist launched Friday Several artists including Bun B, Lupe Fiasco, 6LACK and Brittney Spencer have recorded songs honoring Juneteenth for Apple Music. Performers from different genres composed new tracks, while others recorded cover songs for the second annual “Juneteenth 2022: Freedom Songs” playlist, which launched Friday, June 10…
Anthony Perry says the car will make his life ‘way easier’ A Chicago man who jumped onto train tracks to rescue someone who had fallen onto an electrified rail during a fight at an L station earned more than praise for his heroic act: He’s also been gifted with a car. Anthony Perry, 20, was…
Mayor Eric Garcetti says new holiday a small step toward undoing systemic racism Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday signed a proclamation making Juneteenth an official city holiday to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Garcetti said during a signing ceremony at City Hall that the commemoration was overdue and a…
