While Jim Garrison stepped down, American Legion leaders in Ohio also suspended the post’s charter and are taking steps to close it The head of an American Legion post in Ohio stepped down Friday amid criticism following the decision of Memorial Day ceremony organizers to turn off a retired U.S. Army officer’s microphone while he…
On Tuesday, a detective with the West Midlands police in central England announced amid growing community concerns that authorities are not excluding the possibility that the death of a 14-yar-old Black boy may have been racially motivated after initially saying there was “nothing to suggest” the boy’s death had anything to do with race. “We…
Police say 14-year-old Dea-John Reid was subjected to racist language prior to the fatal incident Dea-John Reid, a 14-year-old boy, was killed on Monday in Birmingham, England after being stabbed in the chest. The BBC reported that Reid was chased and subjected to racist verbal abuse before being attacked. According to West Midlands Police, Reid…
A sought-after chemistry professor decided not to join the UNC faculty over the dispute The pressure on trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to grant tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones continued to mount Friday as a major funding partner joined the call to change her status and a sought-after chemistry…
Music producer Pharrell Williams is still coping with the loss of his cousin Donovon Lynch, who was fatally shot by a Virginia Beach police officer in March. Lynch was one of two people killed during festivities the weekend of March 26. Police claim the Virginia Beach Oceanfront shooting was in response to Lynch pulling out…
It was not immediately clear when the suspension would go into effect as users could still access Twitter late Friday Nigeria’s government said Friday it was suspending Twitter indefinitely in Africa’s most populous nation, a day after the company deleted a controversial tweet President Muhammadu Buhari made about a secessionist movement. It was not immediately…
Enmanual Familia died while attempting to save 14-year-old Troy Love, who also drowned Enmanuel Familia, an officer of the Worcester Police Department in Massachusetts, died on Friday afternoon while trying to save a teenager from drowning in a pond. The teen, Troy Love, also died in the pond, according to WWLP. Familia, 38, was one…
Source: krisanapong detraphiphat / Getty Home to the largest Confederate memorial in the country, the state of Georgia took another leap in whitewashing history. The majority-white Georgia Board of Education passed a resolution declaring slavery and racism are inconsistent with America. Calling an emergency meeting, the state board of education met Thursday to weigh in…
Source: LTFF If Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships to start the Trojan war in ancient Greece, Dick Roland of Greenwood was the unsubstantiated arrest that launched one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As many as 300 Black residents of the city…
The popular phrase people have carried over the years about marriage is “happy wife, happy life,” but it looks like, according to Yandy Smith-Harris and Mendeecees Harris’ marriage, it’s the husband that may be a little upset. In the latest episode of VH1’s “Couples Retreat,” the “Love and Hip Hop” pair showed they each have…
