Source: WAVY News / WAVY News Friends and family gathered Monday to mourn Andrew Brown Jr.‘s life as a steady procession of speakers addressed what they recognized as the root cause of the police shooting: racism. But it was the Rev. Al Sharpton‘s eulogy that expressed that sentiment in the most urgent of terms, even…
A pair of Ivy League universities apologized recently for mishandling the bones of a Black teen killed in a 1985 Philadelphia police bombing. The child’s remains remained at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for decades and were used as an exhibit for an online forensic anthropology class that Princeton University hosted….
A Florida elementary school principal is under investigation after she repeatedly beat one of her students with a paddle, citing it was punishment over a damaged computer. Video of the disturbing event circulated on social media which showed Melissa Carter, head of Central Elementary School in Clewiston, bending a child over and hitting her with…
Opinion: If racism is not responsible for the continued degradation and positionality of Black and Brown Americans, then what is? If a Black Republican and Black Democrat walked into a bar, one wouldn’t usually expect them to agree on anything let alone that racism, in the United States especially, is a thing of the past….
Facebook’s Oversight Board will soon announce whether or not Trump will be welcomed back to its social platform on May 5. The Facebook Oversight Board is tasked with deciding whether or not the ban on former President Donald Trump‘s accounts will be permanent or if his platform will be reinstated. Read More: Study: Facebook delivers…
Just weeks after news came that Master P’s son Hercy Miller would be attending a Historically Black College and University, the son of another prominent Black celebrity has announced plans for a similar move as part of his athletic path. Shaqir O’Neal, the youngest son of NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, announced on his Instagram page Friday,…
Two of the four families include mothers who were separated from their children in late 2017 The Biden administration said Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls “just the beginning” of a…
Phillip Adams is accused of killing Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife, their two grandchildren and two others at the doctor’s home before killing himself last month Any visitor to Rock Hill, South Carolina, soon learns that “Football City, USA” basks in the glory of the dozens of youth leaguers who have gone on to win…
The 62-year-old attacker walked into the Duck Creek Kitchen and Bar and shot two people at a waiter station at close range with a 9 mm handgun A man who shot and killed two people and wounded a third at a Wisconsin casino’s restaurant before police killed him had been fired from the eatery and…
Demonstrators on Sunday called for police reform and more serious charges against the officer who killed Wright Hundreds of people joined Daunte Wright’s family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb where he was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop three weeks earlier. Demonstrators on Sunday called for police reform and more serious…
