JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Married couple LaQuenza Morgan and Lauren Rhoades say police officers conduct roadblocks every few months in their mostly Black, working-class neighborhood in Mississippi’s mostly Black capital city, usually during the busiest times of day when people are going to or from work. He’s Black and she’s white, and they said officers…
EXCLUSIVE: Crump, who served as the attorney for the Martin family, and U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson spoke exclusively to theGrio. President Obama also shared remarks on Twitter. Ten years later, the fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin remains an unforgettably tragic American story. On Feb. 26, 2012, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman chased down and…
Court officials walked jurors through the former crime scene in the trial of former Louisville Metro Police detective Brett Hankison The 15 jurors involved in the criminal trial of the police officer charged in the botched raid on Breanna Taylor‘s home paid a visit on Friday to the apartment where she was fatally shot nearly…
Colonial Williamsburg has begun to honor the coachmen by naming a new carriage after Benjamin Spraggins The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era. Their wooden coaches helped conjure up the late 18th Century for visitors including Queen…
Breonna Taylor’s mother and sister were removed from former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison’s wanton endangerment trial this week. The two women were kicked out because they wore the slain woman’s image on their clothing while sitting in the courtroom this week. Breonna Taylor’s mother (left) and her daughter (right) were kicked out of…
Ben Crump has been called Black America’s attorney general for his unwavering work on civil rights cases Before Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and other Black people died at the hands of white police officers or self-appointed vigilantes, there was Martin Lee Anderson. Anderson, a 14-year-old Black teenager, died in 2006 after he was kicked and beaten by guards…
Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant criminal defense work on their resume The judge President Joe Biden has chosen to fulfill his historic pledge to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court would also bring rare experience of defending poor people charged with crimes. While Judge…
Kandi Burruss, one of the hardest-working women in Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise, might need to slow down. For the second time in the school year, the singer-turned-reality star has sent her 2-year-old daughter to her pre-K class dressed in a costume on the wrong day. The Xscape member took to social media to share with…
UPDATED: 6:30 a.m. ET, Feb. 26, 2022 — On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was 17 years old when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood vigilante who pursued the teen even after he was told by local police to stand down. Trayvon helped to spark a movement and he will never be…
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Beyond the historic nature of President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, some groups see the current moment as an opportunity to push for Supreme Court reform. While viewed by many as a necessary step forward, nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court…
