While fireworks are integral to the country’s Independence Day celebrations, they ignite thousands of fires a year Many Americans aching for normalcy as pandemic restrictions end are looking forward to traditional Fourth of July fireworks. But with a historic drought in the U.S. West and fears of another devastating wildfire season, officials are canceling displays,…

The Democratic-controlled state House included several policing provisions in its overall public safety budget bill this session Minnesota’s top Democratic and Republican lawmakers reached agreement on the highlights of a public safety bill that includes police accountability measures, a day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for…

Derek Chauvin’s sentencing isn’t sitting well within Tina Knowles-Lawson‘s soul, and she isn’t holding her tongue about it. On Friday, June 25, Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years, 7.5 years less than the 30 years prosecutors were pushing for, and granted time served for the 199 days he has already spent behind bars. While…

The greater Louisville community has been on high alert the past week after the disappearance of writer and organizer Quintez Brown. Missing for over a week, the Courier-Journal reported Brown had a terse interaction with a security guard at the Algonquin Park pool before he went missing.   Two reports indicate Brown may have been spotted…

Sometimes reporting on the historic nature of an election can overlook important issues for the surrounding community. But Joel Caston’s history-making victory is a part of a powerful narrative for community engagement and self-governance.  Elected earlier this month to the Ward 7 Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Caston is the first incarcerated elected official in Washington, D.C….

A Texas man has been federally charged with possession of child pornography after he was accused of starting a sexual online relationship with a teenage Black girl, then transporting her from Georgia to Texas. Robert David Fyke, a 33-year-old man from Lubbock, Texas, was arrested on June 17 and appeared in court on Monday before…

“I feel like it was setup,” Berry says after she turned away during the playing of the U.S. national anthem during her medal ceremony Gwen Berry has been politically outspoken in her career and on Saturday the American track and field athlete felt forced to make a stand during the Olympic trials during a medal…

With Simone Biles being the most decorated gymnast and an Olympian, she’s had to learn how to balance athletics with her life away from the mat. Biles admitted earlier this month in an interview with Glamour magazine that being in the gym took a lot of her time and attention before she realized, “me being…

The documents are now housed at William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi Never before seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time, 57 years after their…