The fate of Derek Chauvin now hangs in the balance of the outcome of a Minneapolis jury’s verdict. Closing arguments were made in the ex-police officer’s murder trial Monday, and the jury was sequestered to begin its deliberations. They will decide if Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department, used excessive force and…
The payout will settle a long-running lawsuit brought by Jerime Mitchell over a shooting that had sparked protests and exposed tensions An insurer for the City of Cedar Rapids will pay $8 million to a Black motorist who was paralyzed after a white police officer shot him during a 2016 traffic stop, the city announced…
Jimmy Hoffmeyer said Monday he also is considering taking his daughter, Jurnee, out of public schools and enrolling her in a private school A Michigan father has moved his 7-year-old biracial daughter from one school to another after the child’s hair was cut on separate occasions by a classmate and a teacher. Jimmy Hoffmeyer said…
The FX series is prepping to air its third and final season this spring As the hit series Pose prepares to air its third and final season, the Human Rights Campaign has announced plans to honor the show at its virtual event, Time for Equality Live. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which is the “nation’s…
An online petition calling for the recasting of the character of King T’Challa in “Black Panther” following the tragic death of the film’s star, Chadwick Boseman, is asking Marvel Studios to consider the larger impact of moving on from such an iconic character. In the months since “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman’s tragic August 2020…
Stephen Nicholas Broderick, who’d reportedly been on the run since Sunday, was carrying a loaded gun. Stephen Nicholas Broderick, 41, a former Texas sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting his former wife, their adopted daughter and a third person has been arrested after an overnight manhunt. In a statement on Facebook, police in Manor, Texas…
Social justice activist Tamika Mallory was among those to respond to the question Safaree Samuels raised on Twitter about whether or not the Black community is selective when it comes to outrage in response to unjust killings. In a tweet shared April 19, the reality TV star called into question the level of anger and…
Waters makes people uncomfortable, he said, “a lot of white men, because she puts them in their place.” CNN host Don Lemon said anyone with “half a brain” knows that California Congresswoman Maxine Waters was not calling for violence in her remarks at a rally in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. In an interview over the weekend,…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis | Source: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a controversial bill into law that could embolden violence against protesters and would criminalize the right to protest nonviolently in certain instances. Democratic opponents and grassroots organizers argue the law was not only unnecessary but dangerous. The so-called anti-riot…
A Tennessee mother says she wishes she had never called the police on her daughter’s Black boyfriend after the conflict ended with an officer fatally shooting him inside a Knoxville high school bathroom. Anthony J. Thompson Jr., a 17-year-old student at Austin-East Magnet High School, was fatally shot by a Knoxville police officer on Monday,…
