Syracuse’s Common Council approved the measure last week Some members of New York’s congressional delegation aren’t happy with Syracuse’s decision to spend pandemic relief money on a mural celebrating local basketball legends. Republican Reps. John Katko and Claudia Tenney said the money should instead be spent on those in need, Syracuse.com reported. Read More: Syracuse University…
The Eastern Conference matchups are set The NBA’s new play-in tournament begins on Tuesday night, and it took until the 146th and final day of this compressed season to determine who is going where for the playoffs. The Eastern Conference matchups are set: No. 7 Boston will play host to No. 8 Washington, and No….
“Now I’m paranoid. Because I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what’s going on.” A man was arrested in the slaying of a 4-year-old boy whose body was found lying on a neighborhood street in Dallas, police said. Dallas police announced the arrest late Saturday night but have not yet released the man’s name….
The city of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of Andre Hill $10 million, City Attorney Zach Klein announced on Friday, May 14. “We understand that because of this former officer’s actions, the Hill family will never be whole,” Klein said in a statement. “No amount of money will ever bring Andre Hill back…
“I’d never do that again. I’d never use that symbol again,” Stanfield said LaKeith Stanfield publicly addressed an old music video called “Swastikas and Bones” amid the backlash he faced after moderating a Clubhouse session containing anti-Semitic rhetoric. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, The Judas and the Black Mosiah actor opened up…
Retired NBA star Dwyane Wade is using his platform to talk about politics with the Black community. He and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, appeared at Wall Street Journal’s “The Future of Everything” festival as speakers to talk about politics and social justice. The event took place from May 11 to 13 and offered “unscripted…
The suspected fentanyl overdoses began in January Fentanyl overdoses, including by people taking pills falsely sold to them as Xanax or Percocet, are spreading across Georgia. Officials say they have found clusters in the Savannah and Columbus areas after an initial set of cases was found mostly around Augusta. The suspected overdoses began in January….
More than 800 bills have been filed in 47 states this year with provisions that would expand voting rights, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, Last year, for the first time in more than a quarter-century, Democrats in Virginia took control of the statehouse and the governor’s mansion. Since then, one priority has become…
The shooting took place at 9:50 a.m. Rapper Lil Reese was one of three men whom were shot on Saturday in Chicago at a parking garage. The altercation reportedly stemmed from a issue surrounding a stolen truck. TMZ reported that a Dodge Durango was stolen and at least one of the men were inside the…
The city attorney and mayor have said that adopting the resolution commits the city where Daunte Wright was killed by police during a traffic stop to change, though it is not a final action Elected officials in a Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April approved…
