Source: Win McNamee / Getty States may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful in the upcoming midterm elections. You read that right: The U.S. Supreme Court recently barred federal courts from requiring states to fix their newly adopted but unlawful congressional maps before the 2022 midterm congressional elections. In Merrill v. Milligan,…
Extremists paint any effort to regulate firearms as the prelude to widespread gun seizures. The young man in the jeans and sunglasses proudly shows off his gun in the YouTube video, then instructs his 1 million subscribers how to fit extra ammo on his belt, and offers a chilling observation. “Pretty cool for active shooter…
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty A new poll shows Black support for President Joe Biden has waned since he first took office. According to a Washington Post-Ipsos Poll, 70 percent of Black voters surveyed supported the president. The Washington Post acknowledged that Black voters remain the most solid group in supporting the president, particularly…
Survivor Zaire Goodman’s filing accuses Gendron’s parents of ignoring warning signs. An employee who survived a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket sought a court order Friday to question the 18-year-old gunman’s parents under oath in anticipation of filing a lawsuit against them. The filings in state Supreme Court ask that Payton Gendron’s parents,…
The emergency services worker was initially placed on administrative leave while Erie County investigated the alleged call. Latisha Rogers said she dialed 911 and was promptly hung up on while trapped inside the Buffalo supermarket as 10 Black shoppers were fatally shot by a self-identifying white supremacist in May. Weeks later, the dispatcher who allegedly…
McGee died of heart failure May 24 at his home in the Delta city of Greenwood. William “Bud” McGee, a Mississippi civil rights activist who worked to register Black voters in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. McGee died of heart failure May 24 at his home in the Delta city of Greenwood, the Greenwood…
A New York jury has awarded two former state troopers $3.5 million in damages in a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency and its former top official. Noel Nelson and Seamus Lyons allege they were falsely accused of stealing marijuana and cocaine from an evidence locker in 2010. Nelson said the false allegation was retaliation…
As of Friday, the U.S. had identified at least 20 cases in 11 states. Genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the U.S., health officials said Friday, raising the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time. Many of the U.S. cases were caused by the…
In the recent episode of VH1’s hit show “Basketball Wives,” built-up tension between former best friends Malaysia Pargo and Brandi Maxiell erupted and finally hit the fan. Brandi Maxiell (left), Malaysia Pargo (right). (Photos: @brandimaxiell/Instagram, @malaysiainthecity/Instagram The “Basketball Wives series” follows the lives of women who ostensibly all have one thing in common: they are…
Conservative pastors have said mass shootings and other social harms are the result of an overall degradation in moral values and disregard for human life. After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, several pastors around the country challenged their conservative counterparts with this question: Are…
